Cande y Paulo

The Thrill Is Gone

Picture a desert stretching endlessly out across the horizon until being disrupted dramatically by the rise of the Andes. Barren but beautiful, like a scene out ofWalter Salles’s Motorcycle Diaries. Now cut toovertenmillion people captivated by two musicians delivering the most intimate of performances at an arts centre in a remote city nearby.A young woman in a red dress, face contorted with emotion, weaves the notes of her double bass around a breath-gentle voice, accompanied by barely-there jazz chords on an electric piano. The setting is San Juan Argentina, the year is 2017 and they were performing Barro Tal Vez, an achingly intense but minimalist Argentinian song and it went viral on YouTube.So begins the almost unbelievable story ofCande Buasso and Paulo Carrizo.