This Is How You Smile Explained
| This Is How You Smile |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Helado Negro |
| Cover: | Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile.png |
| Studio: | 411, Brooklyn, New York
Heard City, Manhattan, New York
CD Alley 2, Durham, North Carolina
Molly & Keith's House
Island Universe Space
AIR Serenbe, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Label: | RVNG Intl. |
| Producer: | Helado Negro |
| Prev Title: | Private Energy |
| Prev Year: | 2016 |
| Next Title: | Far In |
| Next Year: | 2021 |
This Is How You Smile is the sixth studio album by American musician Helado Negro. It was released in March 2019 under RVNG Intl.
Critical reception
In a year-end essay for Slate, Ann Powers cited This Is How You Smile as proof that the album era format is not dead in 2019 but rather undergoing a "metamorphosis", with artists such as Negro utilizing the concept album through the culturally-relevant autobiographical narratives, which in this case is a "bilingual love letter to his family".[1]
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes[2] and AllMusic.[3]
- Roberto Carlos Lange – vocals, Casio MT-30, electric banjo, electronic percussion, classical guitar, electric guitar, Juno, Korg synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, noise, ondes, Roland Juno-6, vibraphone, field recording, recording, mixing, engineering
- Adron – vocals
- Raquel Berrios – vocals
- Luis del Valle – vocals
- Nene Humphrey – vocals
- Ela Minus – vocals
- Victoria Ruiz – vocals
- Xenia Rubinos – vocals
- Kristi Sword – echo, footsteps, whistle
- Matthew Crum – guitar, bass
- Keith Reynaud – guitar
- Owen Stewart-Robertson – guitar
- Jenn Wasner – guitar
- Sufjan Stevens – piano
- Bryan Abdul Collins – synthesizer
- Chris Devoe – synthesizer
- Oliver Hill – viola, violin
- Jason Trammell – drums
- Joe Westerlund – drums
- Jason Nazary – drums
- Jay Wynne – drums
- Tim Barnes – percussion
- Andy Stack – steel pan
- Jason Ajemian – bass
- Logan Coale – bass
- Nick Sanborn – synthesizer arrangements, writer
- Aquiles Navarro – trumpet
- Angela Morris – saxophone
- Nathaniel Morgan – saxophone
- Jean Cook – field recording
- Michael Kaufmann – field recording
- Isaac Lekach – field recording
- Matana Roberts – field recording
- Matt Werth – field recording
- Rachel Alina – mastering
- Anna Grothe-Shive – photography
- Will Work For Good – design
- Michelle Grinser – lacquer cut
Notes and References
- Powers. Ann. Ann Powers. December 17, 2019. The album is evolving.. Slate. September 15, 2020.
- This Is How You Smile . Helado Negro . 2019 . RVNG Intl. . Liner notes . RVNGNL54.
- Web site: This is How You Smile - Helado Negro | Credits . AllMusic . March 8, 2019 . March 14, 2019.
