He added that Ricarda Cometa 2—which has a killer track list and psychedelic cover—is a record that:2017 was quite intense, as we had to restructure ourselves as a band. Moving from being a trio to a duo meant that the work dynamics and our approach to making music changed a bit. In a trio, if one of the members isn’t at their best, there’s support in the other two legs of the band. But in duo that makes improvised music, you always need to be on point.
Ricarda Cometa 2 will be released on June 1, 2018 on Nefarious Industries, but you can listen to the premiere of their first track “Soltá el Bambú” (“Let Go of the Bamboo”) exclusively on Noisey below.…was recorded after a tour of 16 shows in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and the Balkans [Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia], so we were already pretty warmed up. We recorded the album in two sessions without any real framework apart from the duration of the improvisations and some key words, which referred to some type of rhythm of indication for certain instruments. ‘Soltá el Bambú’, [for example], maintains that rhythmic expression that [we] like so much. It tries to be very attuned to the decisions of each instrument in order to break down the structure of the track until it finally becomes a song.