2023-06-03 22:35:08
Pablo Alboran sounds happy. The last time we spoke we were in the midst of a pandemic and it was hard to be positive, but now, with the fourth sheet (2022) –album that he is presenting tonight at the Bullring de Murcia– gives free rein to optimism. Also, he says that it is the first time that he is really satisfied with everything.
He seems happy.
Yes, the truth is that I am enjoying it. I am valuing all the good things that happen to me without excuse and without wasting time. And that, curiously, this is a very anarchic album; especially for the way of doing it and in comparison with my nature. In previous works we went step by step, but I released songs from this one a year ago, then we waited, then we included others… It was a whole process without prejudice and in which I let myself go a lot. Back to life. As it is.
What is different about this album to make you feel so convinced?
Well, perhaps it is precisely that, that I have not thought too much or stigmatized everything I did, neither by musical genre, nor by the lyrics, nor by the theme or by the way in which I was doing it. That has relaxed me. It is true that there is a lot of work behind the record, many hours of study, but I have returned to making music out of necessity, wanting to tell things and celebrate that we are alive. He also talks about love in many songs, but a little more adult love.
In it, he has had the collaboration of María Becerra in Amigos, Carín León in Viaje a nun lado, Ana Mena in Ave de paso, Leo Rizzi in 4U and Aitana and Álvaro de Luna in Llueve sobre mojado. Why this need to record albums with collaborations?
It’s been a long time, it’s true. It is the first time that I have an album with so many collaborations, but they all emerged in a very natural way; there was no premeditation. With Leo Rizzi we wrote the song together. I had been trying to contact Carín León for a year and there was no way. Suddenly, I give a concert in Barcelona and a story to Instagram. I saw her, I wrote to her and she answered me. She came back to the concert the next day and I told her that she had a song that she wanted her to do with me. Everything has been emerging a bit like that. We also live in a moment in which we are putting labels all day, judging, but it is a record where I collaborate with people who have nothing to do with what I do and yet the songs have a stamp that is very mine with them and they have a stamp very theirs with me. It shows me that you have to keep trying and experimenting, and I’m not going to stop enjoying doing these things. A week before delivering the album, I was finishing the production, because I have done it, shared with three producers, and also from home.
It seems that it has been like a leap into the void…
Yes, but if you’re having fun with what you’re doing, you don’t have to think about why you’re doing it. That is a bit of the philosophy of all this. As I am very square and very demanding, sometimes I forget to enjoy myself. Luckily, I think that over the years I am going towards the opposite.
His songs are always the result of emotion, of his moment. Is this album optimistic because it is going through a sweet moment?
Yes, I think it’s one of the best moments I’ve ever had. And I’m going to try to make it as long as I can. It doesn’t mean that other albums didn’t have joy, but it is true that this album is deep, but it’s not intense, heavy. When I speak of love it is in another way and from other places.
Is recording an album today still a miracle? Or rather: sell music. Is that why there are several formats on this CD, with QR, direct audio, cards, vinyl, coasters, extra tracks…?
Well, since I started at 21, I already entered that era in which records had their formats and were sold at Christmas with different gifts. I have always fought with the record company so that the records had good content. I understand that it is part of this. Selling a disc in physical format is being very difficult. Every year the sale goes down, but I don’t want to stop trying. The important thing is to be in all formats. We live in a moment in which everything is moving very fast, which is reflected in the speed with which music and art are consumed, and the difficult thing is to continue being inspired at this moment.
The album came out, indeed, in December, and he is currently on tour, presenting it live. Is contact with the public your gasoline?
Total. It has always been the vitamin. But also being able to make demos with my musicians or trying mixes to rectify and be able to make mistakes. That time is something I’ve never had before. I also had the opportunity to present some songs at my concerts. Costumewhich is like a rumba, I sang it before it was even registered [Risas].
By the way, twenty Latin Grammy nominations already, but… there’s no way.
Yes… it’s getting entrenched. I don’t know, it’s going to sound like ‘welcome’, but I’m still grateful for the fact that they nominated me. If they give it to me, great, and if not, they keep nominating me. Let’s see, I would be very excited, especially for the team that goes with me, but I don’t know which saints to pray to anymore.
Some time ago he announced the anthill who is preparing to be an actor. explain yourself
I have been studying for a year. It is very easy to say that I want to be an actor, but it is not so automatic. I am forming In the cinema there is a lot of music and in music there is a lot of cinema. It also helps inspire me. But I respect the profession a lot. I have a lot of modesty with respect to intrusion. I will never do something without really preparing myself and without giving it the importance that things have. And surround myself with people who really help me to tell myself: “Trunk, you’re not worth it.”
Why at this time?
My representative calls me one day and tells me if we get to work on this issue. At that time I was open to studying again, spending eight hours on the piano, and because I like the march. Suddenly I saw that after studying I came home with an open mind, with ideas and I saw myself wanting to continue learning. Either something comes out or not.
And what would you choose, theater, cinema or series?
Well I do not know. I hope that the day I do something it will help me get out of the image that people have of me, of that image that we have of all artists. I would like to do something very different from what people expect.
You will have to do bad…
Yes, psycho.
In the end, let’s see if it’s going to be like Amenábar, who is going to make movies and also put music on it.
Well look, hopefully. A movie without music changes a lot and in the music at the end you put on a movie in your head. Making film soundtracks is also one of my dreams. I did it with the theme of Palm trees in the snow and they gave it a Goya. I would like to continue doing it.
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