UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS RELEASES ATMOSPHERIC NEW SINGLE “RED SKIES” WITH RISING ARTIST LA PARDO

Until the Ribbon Breaks continues to peel back the layers of his exciting new musical era with the richly atmospheric and moody new single “Red Skies” featuring Columbian rising star La Pardo, out via VERO Music. 

Recorded at the hallowed Joshua Tree studio Escape, and in Bogotá, Columbia, the song was initially the direct result of the day’s unexpected events. “An actual rattlesnake turned up to the studio, so we recorded it,” UTRB mastermind Pete Lawrie Winfield recalls.“It made the most raw and beautiful sound.”
 
A grounds keeper named Julio arrived to carefully return the snake to the wild. “He’s originally from Guatemala, and he had so many interesting stories that I asked him to talk on the record. It was such a pure and exhilarating experience. There we were in the desert. The skies were red every night. The song would not exist had we not been in that desert.”
 
From there, Winfield says “Red Skies’ was set up to have a Spanish-language verse, so I set off on a journey to find a Latin American singer to join me on the track.” That led him to him on a trek to Columbia, where a friend introduced him to La Pardo, a young woman in the early days of her musical career. “In this current modern world, we could have done it all via Zoom and email, but something told me that I had to be in the same room as La Pardo,” Winfield recalls, adding that he was “blown away by her charisma and her work ethic. It was a pure joy to watch her in action.”
 
A talented vocalist and songwriter (having contributed to songs by artists including Ximena Sariñana and Nio García), La Pardo was equally inspired, crafting this elegant and vulnerable prose for the song: “I don’t want to live and be scared of loneliness’ / Of loving again, of wanting to cry / Although the red sky is burning / like a river of blood / I bleed for my love.”
 
Winfield was so inspired by the experience of working with La Pardo that he decided to film an impromptu music video that will support the single release of “Red Skies.” “The magic in the room was palpable and exhilarating, so we just kept creating,” Winfield says. 
 

Earlier this year, Until the Ribbon Breaks made his welcomed return to vast critical acclaim with “Everything Else but Rain” with the GRAMMY® nominated duo Lucius. The track was the first release taken from his forthcoming third album. 

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