2023 albums
Laura Pausini albums
Anime Parallele and Almas Paralelas (English: Parallel Souls) are the fifteenth studio albums by Italian singer Laura Pausini, released on 27 October 2023 by Warner Music and Atlantic Records. The album is primarily in Italian and Spanish, but it also contains parts in Portuguese.
Background
After releasing her fourteenth studio album Fatti sentire in 2018, Pausini embarked on the Fatti Sentire World Tour 2018 between Europe, the United States and Latin America. In 2019 she released the greatest hists The Singles Collection and set out on the 2019 Laura Biagio Stadi Tour in Italy with Biagio Antonacci. After the conclusion of the tour, the singer announced a recording pause of at least two years.
On October 23, 2020, she publishes the first original song "Io sì (Seen)", a soundtrack to the film The Life Ahead directed by Edoardo Ponti, becoming the first non-English-language song to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and become the first song written in Italian to be nominated at the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Between 2020 and 2022 Pausini had started recording and composing her fourteenth studio album. In 2022, she published the Italian and Spanish language song "Scatola / Caja", as the soundtrack to the documentary film about the singer life and career Laura Pausini - Piacere di conoscerti directed by Ivan Cotroneo and Monica Rametta for Prime Video.
In August 2023 Pausini announced through her social networks that she had finished her fourteenth studio album, writing, "Today, after 3 years, I can say that I have finally finished singing my new record."
Conception
During a press conference for the album, Pausini said the project was started during the COVID-19 pandemic, and features in the lyrics "stories I have lived or been told" and "to put love, respect for people and human beings back at the center." The singer further stated:
Composition
The project is composed of sixteen tracks in the original version and twenty-two in the deluxe version, written and composed by Pausini with numerous songwriters and composers, including Biagio Antonacci, Federica Abbate, Michele Bravi, Alessandro Raina, Davide Simonetta, Dario Faini, Virginio and Cheope. Production was entrusted to Michelangelo, Paolo Carta, Simon Says! and Francesco "Katoo" Cattiti. The singer reported on the production process of the tracks of the work of joining the arrangements to the artist's voice:The singer also explained the decision to include the voice of her daughter Paola in the track "Dimora naturale":
Reception
Alessandro Alicandri of TV Sorrisi e Canzoni described the project as "intense and varied in content," noting that it evinces "the desire to leave nothing to chance, to always remember how important attention to detail and renewal is," and "the love of the community of parallel souls who walk alongside her even though they live in different lives." The journalist was impressed by the writers and producers involved in the project, reporting that the production of the songs "comes across as very compact, clear, and very true to Laura Pausini's identity."