Hermanos Gutierrez

One Liner:  Instrumental guitar magic

Wikipedia Genre:  Instrumental, Latin, Western

Home: Zurich, Switzerland (of all places)

Poster Position: 8
Both Weekends.
Saturday at 5:20.

T-Mobile Stage.

Thoughts:  Freaking awesome.  Not sure what you call this style of instrumental music, I'll have to look that up, but I've been letting this flow for two days and it is wonderful.

Alejandro and Estevan are two of four siblings raised in Zurich by an Ecuadorian mother and a Swiss father.  Estevan was trained in classic guitar styles like milonga and salsa, but younger brother Alejandro just taught himself via YouTube tutorials.  Their first four albums were released independently, but for their fifth disc, they have hooked up with band whisperer Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys.  That new album - El Bueno y El Malo, was inspired by Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack and has that spaghetti western vibe for sure.  Their newest album is 2024's Sonido Cosmico, which doesn't stick to that same western thing, but still sounds phenomenal.  Super cool vibe.

Their biggest streamer comes from the 2019 album Hoy Como Ayer (Today Like Yesterday), and is called "Cerca De Ti."  52.8 million streams.  Close to you.

Nothing particularly revelatory there, just two dudes making a wonderful set of guitar harmonics together.  Oooh, a Tiny Desk.  That is going to be good.

Dig it.  Love when the tattoo'ed one starts looping in other bits, that is supremely cool.  As I have mentioned on some of the other bands coming this year, the one drawback here is that this is going to be a sort of weird show for the Festival.  Just two dudes going to town on their guitars while a crowd swelters in the dead grass just doesn't quite compute.  This should be like a Bass Concert Hall show or something.  Let's do one more, from the new album.  This is "Low Sun," with 5.8 million streams.

Listening to this one now, it dawns on me that this is sort of in line with the Khruangbin and Balthvs people who will also be here on Saturday.  So, I guess this will allow you to just mellow out and jam to a bunch of folks who like to craft sick jams.  I would 100% go check these guys out.