Paola Navarrete tells the phases of her life through ‘Aries’, her third album production

Through 10 numbers. That is how Paola Navarrete He discusses all phases of his life, is honest and shows his most personal side to those who listen. Ram.

Under that name – in honor of his zodiac sign since his birth on March 21– baptized his most recent record production and third album, which he has been building and devising for two years, and which arrived in his repertoire on November 17, 2023.

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“This is an album that tells about my past life, memories of my childhood and adolescence. They are stories that I tell in the themes and I feel like everyone can identify with at least one of them.”the artist confesses in an interview with Diario El Universo.

And each of the themes represents something. Partners in crimeexposes the trust and complicity Navarrete has with her three sisters. “I wrote it thinking completely about them, who the women in my life are. In our home we have always been all womenWe in our madness, being loud, insolent, energetic, fun, and we took care of ourselves in our own way. “We have been complicit in many ways throughout our lives, but most importantly we have always known how to love and support each other,” he said.

Cherokeethe fifth single he first released as single At the end of June it is about the feeling and experience of seeing the sea for the first time.

moon kiss, is the only song with a performanceas French-Mexican singer Adán Jodorowsky participates under his pseudonym Adamowsky. This tells what it is like to fall in love for the first time and feel such pure love.

In this way she shows her memories, after all those phases that have marked her and made her who she is today.

Ram It presents organic and warm sounds with clear influences from the seventies and nineties. “I think we were looking for an analog tone on it, because I’m speaking completely from my memories I grew up in the 90s. Besides I wanted that mood from the 70s because my parents’ music also influenced me. I feel like we’re succeeding in conveying that feeling that the grungeHe popand the album,” he says, speaking virtually from a shopping center in Quito.

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The process of Ram

The composition took place over a whole year, and within that the recording of each of the songs lasted approximately 26 consecutive days of “confinement” in the Codependiente studio, located in Mexico, the country where he lived for two years until his return to Ecuador a month ago. The post-production phase lasted another year.

This album was produced and mixed by Jodorowsky, and mastered by Canadian Philip Shaw Bova.

One of the pillars of this special production was the Quito artist Mauro Samaniegowho currently leads the country’s signature groups such as Da Pion And Bear crew.

Samaniego and Navarrete have had a very close friendship for years, so this is not the first time they have collaborated or collaborated musically.

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“I had the idea to make songs with guitar and voice, songs that can be played anywhere, anytime, alone or with a band. With Mauro, there were songs he helped me finish, others he added some to riffs, and this whole process was very beautiful. Most of them he had something to do with it, like a touch,” he says, continuing to say it was a team project for both of them.

“He traveled to Mexico alone to record the guitars, but because I thought it was important that Mauro was also present during my part of the recording, he returned. That was like a requirement. We’ve been working together for so long that it’s already become an essential part of recording my albums. We understand each other very well, he already knows my style, my universe, my taste and my way of composing,” says the 33-year-old from Guayaquil.

Paola Navarrete in Mexico

During his stay in the Aztec country, He couldn’t suppress the great contrast that exists between our music scene and the Mexican one.

“The difference is terrible. What’s happening is absurd In Mexico there is an unreal number of proposals, projects, soloists, bands, unreal cultural events. There the music is endless. In any genre, and it’s very crazy, entertainment moves in a very wild way. This means, for example, that Taylor Swift plays in one place, and Mon Laferte, Depeche Mode or Guns N’ Roses in another. That can all happen there on the same day and there are concerts with more than 100,000 people.”

“It’s insane, and I can’t explain the amount to you shows there are also little ones. I think there’s even a saturation of music, so compared to Ecuador it’s obviously a completely different world. Even if it’s a concert by an unknown artist, people in Mexico still go just because. I feel like that doesn’t happen in Ecuador, here people don’t just go, they don’t go to discover music, and that should change. Obviously the uncertainty makes it much more complex, but I only realized what was happening in Mexico when I lived there,” he explains.

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Paola’s gift

With more than 67,000 listeners per month on SpotifyNavarrete continues to position itself as one of the greatest exponents of the Ecuadorian artistic industry.

It was the cover of the playlist Equivalent on several occasions, and in June this year he appeared in an advertisement for this digital platform in Times Square, the emblematic intersection and tourist destination in New York, United States.

He presented about his visit to our country Ram for the first time during an intimate acoustic concert on November 19, two days after the premiere.

This event took place at La Mezcalería and featured Mojo Myst as guest artist. “I have worked a lot for this. It was the first time I played guitar and vocals live. There were about 50 people there, I wanted it to have a homely atmosphere, I put a bench in the middle of the room and I sang like that, just like when I composed the songs. There was a spectacular connection,” he says.