For Rodrigo Sanchez, one half of the fleet-fingered Mexican acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, this current chapter of their story not only features the "In Between Thoughts" album, but a sea of changes.

"Many things happened during this process," Sanchez said. "Our long-term relationship with our management -- an Irish company -- ended. The record deal ended, so we had to have a new record deal in place. We didn't have management. We felt like while this may not be the end of the world, maybe it was the end of our careers. Once we had the album selections and saw the world was coming back, we thought about getting a record deal and then how to deal with our management situation. We put together some listening sessions in L.A. for some people. We called our long-term partner, ATO Records. We didn't have a deal in place. We called many other record labels. They (ATO) loved the sound and that was a good sign for us. We knew we'd get a deal for sure. We're thankful for everything we did before with our old team. But having new people on board was so incredibly exciting because we saw new excitement and people that were going to kill for the album. We got the best record deal of our careers, 20-plus years into it. And not only that, we've started working on a new album (to follow up "In Between Thoughts") since then. We have to put a message out there and we need artists to work on this album."

These changes have extended to Rodrigo y Gabriela's live show, which will include music the duo is currently creating.

"We have a full-on, different show because we have these visuals that go with the backing tracks that are connected through time codes for us to play the album fully the way it is," Sanchez said. "It's a totally different experience. We're doing meet-and-greets after the shows. Gab and I never had this. We're so happy that the message is getting out and that people are questioning the concept because they recognized something through the music. We get confused sometimes when we see this because it's some other form giving us this freedom or feeling. But it's not that way. It's something that we really fell in love with. We fell in love with our own beings. It's just magical."