A year ago, Carlos Vives released an album that was predestined to come back into the hearts of fans who waited eight years for his return to the international music scene. The first part of “Corazon Profundo” not only led in sales, his singles reached the top of the Billboard charts, and was praised and rewarded. It also needed a second part, which today the Colombian singer presents to the world, it is the continuity of a CD that is now known as “Mas + Corazon Profundo”. “For the first time in my career I did two albums in one year, this gives me the opportunity to incorporate what was missing in the first, including the cumbias, and vallenatos, and experimenting with the porros. Here we mixed sounds, those musical patterns which I always speak about, this album is better in every way, it has all the learnings of my songwriting. You’ll also find surprising songs done in ways I’ve never done before, a whole different sound.” Explains Carlos Vives.
“Más + Corazón Profundo” has the same winning formula shown at the 2013 Latin Grammys with the first version of “Corazon Profundo”; songs composed by Carlos, music and production shared with the award winning Colombian producer, Andres Castro, mix engineer Curt Schneider, and mastered by Tom Coyne, recorded in studios in Los Angeles, Miami, and Colombia.
In this unreleased album comes 10 completely new songs with additional bonus tracks (The two versions of “La Copa De Todos” the official anthem of Coca Cola for the World Cup in English/Spanish and Portugese/Spanish). In addition, the salsa version of “La Foto De Los Dos” and the extended version of “Volvi a Nacer”, the original version as Carlos wrote it.
The album has already produced it’s first single, “El Mar De Sus Ojos” which is dominating on the radio charts in Colombia at the #1 spot, as well as on iTunes. It was also #1 on Billboard’s latin chart in the US.
The next single is one of the most anticipated songs off the album, “Cuando Nos Volvamos a Encontrar”, a collaboration with international salsa star, Marc Anthony.
+ NEW MUSIC: Songs:
• Cuando nos volvamos a encontrar: “It’s the song which will rekindle lost love, it’s realizing afterwards, hopefully not too late of what that love means and what we’re willing to do to win it back. Being a collaboration with Marc makes it even more special.”
• Un Pobre Loco: “I think it is Bogotá, which is my life and that of my musician friends at the time of Ramona Antigua and Doña Bárbara. It is the love that inspired us to be what we are.”
• Ella es mi fiesta: “It’s the song that celebrates the love cultivated over many years. I keep trying as I do with all my albums to make songs that praise a woman and that have good messages.”
• Mil Canciones: “It’s like an anthem for life, for the forgotten, to the children, to the land, to the game, a parallel between those who sing and play… I talk about the soccer players from my country, those who play on the beach, barefoot; it has the rhythm that soccer learned from the drums.
• El Sueño: “Literally is the narration of a dream or a nightmare say best but the best part is precisely that where it ends. It is a sound with a cheerful coincidence to reggae music.”
• Las Cosas de la vida: “How to explain, this song has a lot of vallenato sentiments, and at the same time is modern, is a ballad, is the rock from my country, and that is how my songs are.”
• Hijo del vallenato: “Simply to remind me, and remind my friends what I am. It’s a merengue-vallenato which the new generation rarely record. It brings me back to my roots immediately.”
• La Cumbia de Todos: “It’s the cumbia which was born in Colombia and went very far in the world; it’s a tribute to our cumbieros.”
• Sueños Rotos: “It’s a sad ballad of a sad story where the spirit triumphs.”
These songs are by Carlos Vives and reflect who he is, of that person who beyond the stage thinks of others. “An artist need to be connected to the people, and work for the people; make songs that are useful to them and understand that many of the things that happen to us, happen to others. We make songs to rediscover ourselves, to say goodbye, to ask someone to spend their lives with us, for those forgotten, for everyone.”
“MAS + CORAZON PROFUNDO” is available worldwide in both digital and physical formats.
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