It’s a classic hero’s journey – the central genderless figure, Advaita, comes into the world, working their way towards the transcendent bliss of nondualism to songs such as True Nature, Egoland and Descending To Nowhere. The album serves as a soundtrack to a story Quintero wrote to process this philosophy. But when you are present, just observing your breath or your thoughts, there’s a stillness that is peace, and that’s our true nature.” The mind is constantly bombarding us with thoughts ‘You have to do this’, ‘You should have done that.’ It fears the future, regrets the past and is never in the present. I said: ‘No! Climate change is real!’ Then I realised that The Power Of Now – a book that changed my life completely – is nondualism too. Rod was telling me that through nondualism everything in this reality is an illusion. Quintero says that as a species we’re good at telling ourselves these stories. Everything else is a construct of the mind. There’s just one ultimate reality, and we can’t process that reality because it’s beyond the mind and the brain.” Its central tenet, ‘nondualism’, holds that the Self – the deepest part of us, our true nature – is our connection to that oneness, that ultimate reality. I talked to Gabriela about it and she got it too.”Īdvaita Vedanta is a Hindu practice which, Quintero explains, “is mainly about this life being an illusion. While I was recovering I saw a video regarding Advaita Vedanta, and it struck me immediately. But when I got covid, I went through an inward process that gave birth to this album. “In the early 2000s I got into Buddhism for a while, and then tried many things. “Both of us have been what they call ‘spiritual seekers’ for many years,” says Sanchez. Now, after the struggle of the past few years, In Between Thoughts… A New World arrives with a sense of musical and spiritual renewal. Vincent and Volbeat among them) Rodrigo y Gabriela were the only ones with a song all to themselves The Struggle Within earned them a Grammy nomination for Best Arrangement, Instrumental Or A Capella. On Metallica’s sprawling tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, of the 53 artists participating (Ghost, St. Quintero and Sanchez are good friends with bassist Robert Trujillo. The latter band, a well-documented influence on the duo, hold a special place in their lives. On their 2021 EP Jazz they interpreted Kamasi Washington, Snarky Puppy and tango genius Astor Piazzolla, while the previous year’s Mettal EP featured covers of Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica. There was a slinky, slidey read of Radiohead’s Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, and an arrangement of the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No.25. Over lockdown the pair started a Patreon, got lively on social media and kept the music coming. That’s how we process our emotions when things get a little tough. Even when we were busking we’d always come back here and just play. “We won the Grammy, spring came, then the Apocalypse! So we came back down here, as we always do in the worst situations.
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“We had a full year ahead of non-stop touring for Mettavolution, all over the place,” Quintero says. Ixtapa was a welcome refuge when everything went to shit in 2020. It’s like they’re the left and right hand of one guitar player, in sync. Today they’re best friends, and the easy way they share answering questions – giving each other space, occasionally talking over each other with passion – speaks of the pair’s chemistry. Bandmates since their teens, both Quintero and Sanchez are approaching their fifties now. The town overlooks the Pacific on Mexico’s west coast, and sits just 15 minutes’ drive from Zihuatanejo, the beachy paradise that Tim Robbins’s character Andy DuFresne escaped to at the end of The Shawshank Redemption. Today Rodrigo y Gabriela are in their studio and HQ in Ixtapa.
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