Hermanos Gutiérrez’s New Album Is a Journey Through the Andes. It’s Also a Journey Through Their Past.

At its core, every Hermanos Gutierrez album is a journey. To the Ecuadorian coast, the Mexican desert, the American West. Their previous work, 2024’s Sonido Cósmico, was meant to take listeners to outer space. So it’s no surprise that their newest album Los Ojos del Condor, which comes out on September 25, sets its sights on another landscape: the Andes, the vast mountain range that runs along the western edge of South America, including their mother’s native Ecuador. This time around, however, the journey itself takes us not only through space, but time itself. Raised by an Ecuadorian mother and a Swiss father, the brothers move back and forth between past and present, using the Andes to revisit childhood memories and family history from the perspective of who they are today. Find Hermanos Gutierrez Tickets Here “Our musical history has always been about Ecuador, this heritage, these roots,” Alejandro tells Consequence. “But we always loved that foreigner perspective as well, discovering a culture you aren’t part of. We just love how our dad, a Swiss guy, really had this admiration for South America and the culture.” That tension between familiarity and foreignness sits at the hea...