Drawing their name from their love of Brutalist architecture and ’70s Synthesizer music, Gris Futuro is a minimal synth/wave group formed at the end of 2021 by the Lithuania-born Eglė Naujokaitytė (also known as Muk, for many years a selector and DJ, as well as a radio presenter in Lithuania, Germany and France) and the Mexico-born Rogelio Serrano (renowned for his solo project Equinoxious), who use modular and other analogue synthesizers as their main creative tools.
While recording the full-length concept album, “Nowadaze”, due out later this year, the Mexico City-based duo drops a video for its second excerpt, “Hiperenfoque”, a song about a neurodivergent state of mind swept in light and darkness.
Colorful, buzzy retro-futuristic mists bounce on unremitting throbbing, syncopated bass grooves, punctuated by steady, crispy claps, flickering and rumbling with metallic clang, topped by swirling icy bright synths, casting shuddering wistful melodies, to sway over and submerge impassioned female vocals with dizzying spirals of glitchy neon-lit hyperstimulation.
The accompanying visuals show Gris Futuro, in fashionable shirts by Geométrica, performing “Hiperenfoque” in front of symbolic indoor/outdoor settings to sync seamlessly with the clarity and distraction aspect of the soundtrack. Fellow Mexico City-based filmmaker and musician Arlo Catana joins with Egle Naujokaitytė herself, to create the two mental states of the song by setting Espacio Escultórico, the geometric sculpture park of EE-UNAM, against a glitchy neon hyperreality made with Arlo’s analog video synths at studio Huitzitzillin.
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