Pablo Alborán explains why "La cuarta hoja" is the most positive album he has made in his career: "He has no prejudices of any kind"

Pablo Alborán reveals a curious fact about "Castillos de Arena" 2:22

(CNN Spanish) -

The inspiration for "La cuarta hoja", his new album, caught Pablo Alborán not only in one of his best moments but also while working.

The singer-songwriter from Malaga presented his sixth record production this Thursday, which was born in the bowels of a tour that took him throughout Spain, Latin America and the United States.

Also in one of the happiest moments of his life.

"It's the most positive record I've made so far," Alborán told Zona Pop CNN in an interview via Zoom.

According to the man from Malaga, the album comes at a time when he is full of motivation, “wanting more, wanting to enjoy, wanting to learn, wanting to travel, wanting to continue making records, accepting the moment that we are living in music, so fast and so immediacy”.

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“The fourth sheet” comes after the coronavirus pandemic, which forced artists around the world to suspend their agendas for just over a year.

In fact, Alborán released a previous production, “Vértigo”, at the end of 2020.

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At the end of 2021, the man from Malaga gave us the first preview of what this production would be: “It rains on the wet”, a collaboration with Aitana and Álvaro De Luna.

Then came “I am capable”, and at the beginning of 2022 he released “Castillos de arena”, a song that was nominated for the 2022 Latin Grammy as “record of the year”.

Just in that period, the singer-songwriter was preparing the

with which he toured his country.

Although it was not the first tour that he made during the pandemic ––in 2021 he made several presentations in Spain–– it is the one with which he crosses the pond and meets his followers in the United States and Latin America.

Precisely, on the 2022 tour is when the album began to take shape, he says.

“Suddenly this album arrives in the middle of a tour, in the middle of preparing for the

, which started in Spain.

Contact with people, contact with work again, my professional life is reactivated after everything we have experienced in the pandemic and I start to write.

I started writing non-stop.

And it just so happens that all the songs are a tribute to love, to life, but also to friendship.

To all the people who have been with me from the beginning, to all the people I have around me and it is a tribute to them," Alborán told Zona Pop CNN.

“La cuarta hoja”, an album with a lot of light

The production has 11 songs, of which five are collaborations.

The overall feeling conveyed by the album is one of positivity and empowerment.

“In all my albums I have always done what I felt and what I wanted.

But it is true that this album has that kind of light, that positivity and that joy that I also like to show.

I think it's also nice to accompany people, not only in their moments of love and heartbreak, but also of happiness, celebration, partying”, says the man from Malaga.

And the perfect songs to be part of that party are “Carretera y manta” or “Amigos”, which both celebrate unconditional friendship.

“It is an album that has no prejudices of any kind, neither in the subject matter nor in the music, because suddenly there is reggaeton, suddenly there is dembow, suddenly there is pop, suddenly there is ballad”, he adds.

The Pablo Alborán producer

Alborán worked on the production from the comfort of his home, he says.

Something that allowed her to get up in the middle of the night to capture an idea in his home studio.

“Yes, it is true that on this album many of the productions have been done like this [from home].

Suddenly being, I don't know, in bed and having an idea come to me half asleep and suddenly running to the studio, or going through all the tracks and being able to work from home simultaneously with other producers.

It has been a new learning too.

I already learned it in the pandemic, working remotely, but being able to work from home is a dream, really, ”he says.

And although this remote work is not exactly an innovation, something new that the man from Malaga did incorporate into his process was the use of a vocoder, a tool that alters the voice and makes it sound somewhat robotic.

Some famous songs in which the vocoder has been used are "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk.

"I've worked on the vocoder, I've never worked on the vocoder on other records, I've worked with autotune, I've worked mixing my turns and imprisoning the autotune to the death, full and the truth is that interesting things come out," the singer told Zona Pop CNN.

“I have tried to soak up a bit of all the digital techniques that are now available to all of us, and above all hours and hours and hours at home, trying to disintegrate, to undo all the tracks of the songs a bit, not suddenly make a vocal track and dismember the vocal track and make a pad with my voice.

So there are a lot of pads that are heard on the record, which are done through my voice and that's very fun and has the originality that it was done with my voice, so it's cool”, he adds.

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