Quarantine at El Ganzo

Quarantine at El Ganzo is a joint solo album by European musicians Sebastian Maschat and Erlend Øye, both members of the German-Norwegian dance-rock band The Whitest Boy Alive.

After a short round of reunion shows the autumn before,[1] The Whitest Boy Alive released "Serious", their first new song in over a decade, in March 2020,[2] and were booked to play a festival in Mexico.

The members of the band, who had been spending the winter in different parts of the world, arrived separately in Mexico over the course of March, only for the growing COVID-19 crisis to led to the festival's cancellation the day before it was due to take place.

After deciding that working remotely would not suit the band's dynamic, Öz and Nentwig returned to Europe, and one of the Hotel El Ganzo's owners, Bear Kittay, invited the remaining members to stay and use the studio indefinitely.

[6] A music video for the song 'Quarantime' was later produced using footage submitted by fans illustrating their experiences under the restrictions during the pandemic, premiering on YouTube on 13 September the same year.