Hermanos Gutiérrez Announce ‘Los Ojos del Cóndor,’ Release First Single ‘Canto Andino’

The Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez will release their third album with Dan Auerbach, Los Ojos del Cóndor, on September 25 through Easy Eye Sound. The first single, “Canto Andino,” moves their instrumental guitar work from the desert atmospheres of earlier records to the mountains and coasts of Peru, where their great-grandfather once lived. A video filmed in the Andes traces that personal return.

Recorded at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the album introduces the charango, a small Andean string instrument, alongside Estevan’s nylon guitar, the same one his father gave him as a child. The rhythms fold in Argentinean milonga and cumbia, while the melody on “Canto Andino” swells and recedes, mirroring the region’s shifting weather. There is no singer anywhere, only the guitars trading lines and building layers until the absence of a voice feels irrelevant.

“We never had the feeling we needed a singer because it was always the intention of let the guitar sing, the melodies, to create the feeling that touches your heart and soul,” Estevan told Rolling Stone in 2022. That approach remains intact. The duo’s live shows already command a trancelike concentration by looping and layering every beat themselves, and Los Ojos del Cóndor seems to carry that focused energy into new territory.