2LP Maps

Release Date: June 9, 2017

2LP Edition

Vetusta Morla's second album after their debut, Un Día en el Mundo, composed and recorded after an intense tour through Spain, Mexico, and Argentina. The group spent a year experimenting with new textures and instrumentations until arriving at a recording method designed to recreate in the studio those moments of collective communication that occur on stage: recording most of the album playing together, prioritizing emotion and energy over technical perfection; preferring naturalness and organic feel over surgical neatness.

Mapas represents a descent to earth, to reality and the present. While Vetusta Morla's first album was based on movements and hypotheses, on contemplating the past or dreaming of a future, this time it speaks of objects, consequences, temporal lines that freeze to draw maps of who we are, traces of our conquests and failures, collections of medals and scratches. Maps that place us before another map without a legend with which to advance, build, or simply understand the present. Maps in which, once again, the listener is invited to design their own journey.

Recorded on analog in Gárate Studios (Guipúzkoa) and digitally in Estudios Sonobox (Madrid) by Manuel Colmenero and Javibu Carretero between December 2010 and April 2011. Mixed and mastered by Manuel Colmenero in Sonobox between March and April 2011. Concept and development of graphic art by Mídori (Montse Montero and Soti Mas-Bagá). Illustrations: Montse Montero. Calligraphy: Vetusta Morla, Mídori, Mire, Pato, Vila and Germán.