Raúl Paz Presents New Intimate and Minimalist Phonogram

March 31, 2021

Singer-songwriter Raúl Paz presented this Tuesday his most recent album El Puente, an intimate and minimalist venture, but enriched by the stories that include the characters from the upcoming Cuban telenovela on air, Vuelve a mirar.

The album, in addition to being the music for the novel, is an inner approach, and to that bridge that we are all building all the time, like the current stage, transitional, where nothing happens waiting for something else to arrive, he said referring to the COVID-19 situation.

The record production, which comes out under the Bis Music label, has much of the Pinar del Río musician in it, since despite being "commissioned" it is the album he would have wanted to make for himself, as he noted, other previous audiovisual music, such as Vidas and La otra esquina, were only a reflection of their characters.

It is also a return to the fact of uniting his songs with current sounds, which is why he counted on the talent of DJ Italo.

And it is that according to the artist, this union "worked very well, with a very interesting complicity. That's how El Puente emerged, a mix of things, just like I am."

The themes that Vuelve a mirar will address, from now and the continuous retrospectives of their respective existences, are reflected in the lyrics, and that allows you to play more with time, with the intimacy of each character, he stated.

His son, Rafael Paz, a 16-year-old adolescent and student at San Alejandro, challenged him by saying that after so many albums it was time to stop posting photos with poses, and from there the art and design sprang forth, where with a minimum of information in the artist's own handwriting, you access a QR code for anyone who wants to know more.

Things of these times. It wouldn't have occurred to me. It's apparently very simple, but it's part of the discourse of taking a journey inward. In this case towards the interior of the production, he added.

El Puente is, in short, a return to what was learned, what was established, without renouncing themes such as love, human relationships, ways of understanding the world and life itself.

Referring to the creative framework of all the music on the album, that is, the pandemic, Raúl Paz confessed that, despite all the bad that has happened, confinement helped him focus, because often what happens with his profession is that as time goes by you start to lose your way.

This pandemic has been the opportunity to look at myself again. This world has to restructure itself, of that there is no doubt for anyone, and it cannot be tomorrow, it has to be today. Time is recoverable, even though it doesn't seem like it, insofar as everything that happens, matters, affirmed the singer-songwriter.

The music that backs the soundtrack of the aforementioned telenovela –whose general director is the talented Ernesto Fiallo-- constitutes the third installment by the author of Carnaval and Tú y yo with the Bis Music label, after Amigos por Paz (2009) and Vidas (2018).

During the presentation of El Puente, it was also learned that the television production is scheduled for the month of June, and that a live performance with some of those songs will see the light on April 2nd through the singer's official social networks.