It would seem that the times are not right to celebrate life, and that good vibes and joy are not exactly in fashion. But this must only be a perception when you spend many hours on a certain social network of a certain South African tycoon. Despite the general sad atmosphere, the music strives to give positive messages to the population who, in most cases, buy the proposal. You just have to see how the tickets sell out lately. In these lands, if an artist has championed the cause of enthusiasm and good cheer these years, it is the Catalan Nil Moliner.
The singer and composer from Sant Feliu de Llobregat will kick off tomorrow the tour of his third album, Lugar Paraíso (Warner Music, 2023), at home, with a concert at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona in which nothing is expected other than is to re-insufflate high doses of vital enthusiasm. Moliner will present the 14 songs from an album that, once again, is inspired by his most everyday experiences. As he himself said in numerous interviews last fall, lyrics are born from any experience, no matter how anodyne it may seem, whether it is a conversation or a party with friends, to give just two examples. And the result is almost a personal diary of his last two years with a single objective: to thrill.
And exciting and making the staff happy seem to have been Moliner’s artistic missions since that now distant single Sale el sol, which placed him on the radar of Spanish pop in 2013. In fact, the singer from Sant Feliu explains that he selected the songs on the album from among fifty songs that he had already written with one basic criterion: that they should move him and make sure that they could also move others.
In these coordinates the afrobeat acrobat Good Day moves, along with Camidoh, the also festive Dos Primaveras or the more epic Vuela Alto and Luces de ciudad, the latter accompanied by Álvaro de Luna and Dani Fernández. It is worth remembering that the album also includes Quan no seguirs a prop, a rocker song that is influenced by his collaborator, the singer of Els Pets, Lluís Gavaldà, and which is the second song in Catalan of Moliner’s career. . In summary, Paradise Place appeals “to that place, whether real or imaginary, where one feels happy. I have written it from mine and the public will hear it from theirs.”
For this Saturday night, Moliner is convinced that it will be “very special,” although he prefers to talk about the show because, beyond the songs, “many other things will happen.” “It will be very exciting”, he has anticipated. Well of course.
