Chilean Songwriter Gepe Reconstructs His Catalog from Memory with a Little Help from His Friends on ORO

With over 20 years in the music business, Chilean artist Gepe will be the first to tell you there are albums that capture a very specific moment in your life. Albums born when “a lot of things are happening,” good, bad, and everything in between; when the intensity of living through it all becomes the fuel for the songs themselves. They can be intense and chaotic, a document of who you were and what was happening around you.ORO, Gepe’s new album, is not that kind of record. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Built from new versions of songs spanning his career, his new work trades the intensity of a single moment for what Gepe describes as “a sense of a journey and a history.” The “chaotic” album Gepe was describing before was 2024’s UNDESASTRE, a project that left him searching for calmer terrain once the dust had settled.“The previous album was this tremendous storm,” he tells Consequence. “This one is more like several months, several days, passing through a whole bunch of seasons. It’s calmer. It’s more peaceful.”You can refer to ORO in many ways, just don’t call it Gepe’s greatest hits or even a compilation for that matter. In fact, you might want to stay away from the word “no...