It would seem that these are not the times to celebrate life, and that good vibes and joy are not exactly fashionable. But this must only be a perception when many hours are spent on a certain social network of a certain South African tycoon. Despite the general distressed atmosphere, the music tries to give positive messages to the population who, in most cases, buy the proposal. Just look at how the tickets are selling out lately. For these lands, if an artist has raised the cause of enthusiasm and good spirits in recent years, it is the Catalan Nil Moliner.
The singer and composer from Sant Feliu de Llobregat starts 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 re-infuse high doses of vital illusion. Moliner will present the 14 songs from an album that is once again inspired by his most everyday experiences.
As he himself explained in numerous interviews last fall, the lyrics are born from any experience no matter how innocuous it may seem, be it a conversation or a party with friends, to name just two examples. And the result is almost a personal diary of his last two years with a single goal: to excite.
And it is that exciting and cheering up the staff seem to have been Moliner’s artistic missions since that already distant single Sale el sol, which placed him on the radar of Spanish pop in 2013. In fact, the singer from Sant Feliu remembers who selected the songs on the album from among fifty tracks he already had written with a basic criterion: that they move him and make sure that they could also move others.
In these coordinates, the Afrobeat saltimbanqui Good day moves, alongside 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 not surprising to remember that the album also includes Quan no sigas a prop, a rockier track that is permeated by its collaborator, the singer of Els Pets, Lluís Gavaldà, and which is the second track in Catalan of the career of Miller. In short, Lugar paraíso appeals “to that place, whether real or imaginary, in which one feels happy. I wrote it from mine and the audience will hear it from theirs”.
For the night of this Saturday, 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 anticipated. Of couse.
