Hermanos Gutiérrez

The Swiss-Ecuadorian sibling duo of Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez—have announced their new album Los Ojos Del Cóndor, out September 25 on Easy Eye Sound. Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys at his Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the 10-track album draws the duo's cinematic guitar work more directly toward their South American roots, trading the wide-open spaces of the American West for the rhythms and textures of the Andes – a vivid new palette of sounds and influences from the continent that shaped them.

Alongside the announcement, the duo released the album's first single and accompanying video for "Canto Andino." The stately opening track eases listeners into the album's world with an acoustic guitar figure before giving way to a drifting organ line, setting the tone for the journey ahead. "That melody you hear in the chorus, that's very happy and then it turns back into the dark, low tones of the slide," said Alejandro. "It's cool because that's actually how the weather works in the Andes. You've got sunshine and then all of a sudden it's so cloudy and looks like it might rain or even snow. 'Canto Andino' is a calling from that landscape that inspired us."

"This is a love letter to South America," said Alejandro. "What we want to do with this record is to invite people to come on another journey with us, this time through the Andes and to create a curiosity for this culture and for this part of the world."

Beyond their own albums, Estevan and Alejandro have recently collaborated with Leon Bridges and Natalia Lafourcade, and co-composed the score for SURFILMUSIC, the documentary on Jack Johnson's path from surfer to filmmaker to GRAMMY-nominated musician. This summer and fall they'll tour North America with Johnson, followed by a headlining European run in August and September before rejoining Johnson for additional North American dates.