Juanes Previews New Immersive Audio Album By way of Las Vegas Pleasure Trip

Within the days main as much as the twenty third Latin Grammy Awards, Colombian guitarist and singer-songwriter Juanes partnered with a number of manufacturers — together with Apple Music, Common Music Group, Dolby Atmos and Mercedes-Benz — to preview his highly-anticpated new album. A choose variety of retailers, together with Selection, have been invited to soak up the “immersive sound expertise.”

Immersive was one solution to describe it. For the playback, Juanes had this reporter hop at the back of a Mercedes-Benz (pictured above), to roam the floor streets of Las Vegas as a number of tracks from his new album — due for launch early subsequent yr — blared by means of the automotive audio system. The singer says the partnership, or higher but the “experiment” of the in-car preview, was made in try and precisely showcase the feel of his new report (blended in Dolby Atmos) and its lyrical composition, “the best way I all the time imagined and meant it to sound like.”

Because the percussion rings, the beloved Latin pop rocker tracks practically each beat swap, crashing cymbal and drum rhythms along with his index and center fingers tapping towards his knee. When the primary track ends, he begins to explain the inspiration for what can be his eleventh studio effort — beginning with the already launched “Amores Prohibidos.” The sultry Sebastian Krys-produced report has a slight psychedelic rock-influence, infused with rough-edged riffs and signature Juanes guitar solos. Lyrically, the track reads like a escapist daydream about separation and forbidden love, falling according to themes of isolation and the pandemic.

“The track concept started from an article I learn through the pandemic on the issue of sustaining non-public relationships, people who couldn’t be identified to the world, due to the challenges of seeing the opposite particular person,” stated the Latin Songwriter Corridor of Famer. “Musically, when you take the beat out of the track, it’s really a cumbia, a sort of Colombian people music, however then while you carry again in the remainder of the manufacturing, and loop, it takes on a sound and vibe just a little like Andre 3000’s ‘Hey Ya’ — after which I added a solo guitar within the fashion of Chuck Berry for extra of a traditional rock vibe that meshes with the poetic lyrics about that particular person you meet ‘In The Darkish’ when nobody else can see.”

“Writing through the pandemic made him join along with his day-to-day life,” commented Krys of the track. “His Youngsters, his spouse, his music, his fears, and passions. It’s obvious to me that he has tapped into one other degree of musical exploration and curiosity which solely a handful of artists ever obtain.”

Krys continued: “I consider Juanes has reconnected along with his fearless progressive songwriting that outlined him early on in his profession. This track sounds 100% Juanes and is concurrently not like something he has carried out earlier than. Juanes has all the time been an innovator.”

Most particulars on the remaining unreleased tracks have been requested to stay strictly underneath wraps, because the forthcoming set can be Juanes’ first assortment of authentic releases since 2019’s “Más Futuro Que Pasado,” through which the musician tinkered with chart-topping genres from Latin people music to reggaeton and pop. The brand new report can be a comply with as much as his 2021 covers album “Origen,” which consisted of 12 stay performances with songs by Joaquín Sabina, Fito Paez, Bruce Springsteen, and extra.