Viaje is a collection of memories, emotions, images and experiences made into songs, giving life to the 14 unreleased songs, all composed by the artist and with the participation of more than 6 producers, including Dan Warner, Martin Terefe, Ben Wisch. , Efraín «Junito» Dávila, Israel Rojas and Yoel Martínez from the Cuban group Buena Fe.
This makes Trip become an eclectic and varied album, being the first time that Ricardo Arjona He works with such a large team for a single album, thus creating a diverse product, from Arjona’s authentic traditional ballads, to more tropical themes including a salsa where his versatility as a singer-songwriter and performer is contrasted.
“I went to Asia, Africa and everywhere I could, looking for nothing or maybe looking for a little bit of what I had lost. I didn’t find anything, as usually happens, but along the way I left muddy songs in hotel envelopes and boarding passes. The result? Fourteen pieces from the log of a journey that will never end, although today I imprison him in this project so that only then will he learn to fly as he deserves”highlights Arjona about his new production.
Apnea is the first promotional single from the album, being a very special song for the artist based on personal events. “The text, word for word, is the product of what I saw and breathed. The procession of abandoned love lasted 3 years and some months. The truth is that looking for the analogy to this story, I did not find a word that was more consistent than APNEA. With everything and its etymology and its Greek root NEGACION DE RESPIRE was the perfect synthesis of this plot of love and absence that achieves its own claim through abandonment and the surrender of the senses in order to cure the ordeal of missing what never To return to.»
The album also includes songs like the little i havein a more tropical calypso-style genre, swans, a salsa with lyrics with a strong social content and Viaje, a theme that baptizes the album and transports us to a different, unconventional journey, these being some of the cuts with which the Guatemalan singer-songwriter arrived on April 29, 2014.
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The physical album comes with bonus interactive content, by downloading an augmented reality app called ARJONA for mobile and tablet devices, freely available from all mobile app stores. This application is an innovative and creative way to bring exclusive content to all its fans, where they can scan a part of the album’s booklet or booklet and see videos and photos of the journeys of all their trips.
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Trip It is the second album produced entirely under his independent record label Metamorfosis, confirming once again his versatility and freedom to create, this being the main purpose of the label, allowing the artist to create with total freedom as it should be.