Anime Parallele

''Anime Parallele'' and ''Almas Paralelas'' (English: ''Parallel Souls'') are the fifteenth studio albums by Italian singer Laura Pausini, released on October 27, 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."

Paolo Panzeri of ''Rockol'' affirmed that the album presents "an unquestionable formal perfection" that "confirm her status as the queen of Italian pop and that of a Latin music star," appreciating the collaborations in songwriting. Panzeri stressed that the singer "restrains the power of her voice" in the songs, "going rather for more restrained singing, and that is not a bad thing."

''Billboard'' reanked the album as one of the "25 Best Latin Albums of 2023", describing it as a "passionate journey" and a "a pop gem that made us dance and laugh, reflect, and heal" with sounds from "energetic pop-dance/electronic song" to "sensitive piano love ballad".

Track listing

''Anime Parallele''

''Almas Paralelas''

''Anime Parallele/Almas Paralelas Deluxe''

Contains 3 CDs: the Italian and Spanish-language editions, and 6 bonus tracks.

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References

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2023 albums
Italian-language albums
Laura Pausini albums
Portuguese-language albums
Spanish-language albums
Warner Music Group albums