He settles into the band easily, as they all trade lead back and forth among each other, each guitar with its own tone, its own personality, its own motivation and mission. Once upon a (relatively recent) time, Hermanos Gutierrez, a duo of Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Alejandro and Stephan Gutierrez, whose specialism is romantic boleros and ballads, saw to the creation of a rare crock of recorded material, much coveted but little gotten.

But the phrase has a deeper meaning: “We think that everybody has a good side and a bad side,” says Estevan.Alejandro and Estevan are the Hermanos Gutiérrez, an instrumental music band with an unmistakable genre that is rooted in Western and Latin American sound. That initial take set the tone for the sessions: They worked on the fly, hewing closely to the songs they had brought over from Switzerland while remaining open to any and all new ideas. The music these two brothers make evokes expansive plains and rough wildernesses, saguaros and surfs, spaghetti westerns and Morricone soundtracks, Lynch and Jarmusch. In the mid 2010s Alejandro moved to Zurich, not too far from the small village where his brother lived.

VG/EX means that the item's sleeve is in Very Good condition and the disc is in Excellent condition. Choice pieces like 'Hombre Honrado' and 'Mi Amor' nod to every secondary style from pop-dancehall to bossa nova, while an undeniable atmosphere cuts across the tracks, bringing out their emotion through a springy, vintage reverb master.

Born from an Ecuadorian mother and a Swiss father, they grew up being forged by both cultures, bridging between two worlds, both of which are home. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Their misgivings were quelled as soon as they arrived at Easy Eye Sound Studio, and within twenty minutes they were already recording—not that they were even aware that the sessions had started. They loved it so much they invited him to record it for them, even retitling that song “Tres Hermanos.