First and foremost, Rodrigo y Gabriela’s album 9 Dead Alive is a FEEL record. It’s the closest relative in the RyG canon would be 2006’s self-titled break-out album. The playing is intuitive, the sound is intimate, the results are spectacular: bursting with melodic energy and rhythmic invention. Recorded at their Pacific Coast hideaway in late summer, the album captures the warmth and spontaneity of two great musicians riffing and jamming together; perfectly distilled into 9 songs teeming with desire, elegance, and gusto. Rodrigo y Gabriela left Mexico at the end of the millennium. Since then they have played for presidents, toured the world many times over, written soundtracks for Hollywood block-busters, and sold over 1.5 million albums. 9 Dead Alive sees them bring their timeless music all the way back home.