After releasing ‘Castillos en el aire’ in May, his first song in four years, the Valencian musician today delivers a second single from ‘Ciudad Dormida’, his seventh album, which will be released on 15 November. His single ‘Nube Violeta’ is out this Friday (18 October) and is one of the most experimental tracks on the album, combining dark and impressionist touches with some Latin American sounds, with the collaboration of the Peruvian duo Alejandro and María Laura. Alberto Montero will present his new album live at the ‘Sala Russafa’ in Valencia on 30 November and at the Sala Heliogàbal in Barcelona on 19 December, with tickets already on sale.

The Valencian musician Alberto Montero has a lot to tell us. In May 2024 he ended four years of silence by releasing ‘Castillos en el aire’, a beautiful song about the passing of time and reconnecting with his own essence, which also served as the first preview of the album that awaits us just around the corner, the seventh in his long career. If you like The Beatles, Love, Lucio Battisti, Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith…then this Valencian artist is for you too.

 ‘Ciudad Dormida’, which will be released on 15 November on the BCore label, is an invitation to explore the streets of the author’s subconscious, his emotions and the city we see when we start to dream. A work, therefore, that moves between the frontiers of the visible and the invisible, leaving us with pieces that straddle the two worlds.

Valencian Alberto Montero unveils today a second advance of Ciudad Dormida: ‘Nube Violeta’, a cut that starts from the memory of his departure from Barcelona, some years ago, and lands in the full consciousness of the here and now. It does so in one of the most experimental tracks on the album, both musically and lyrically. The new single may sound like a kind of animist chant, a prayer to nature, expressing how important his contemplative vocation is to him as the anchor of his artistic essence.

At the same time, musically it also makes two worlds coexist: on the one hand, it has the atmospheric touches that can remind us of his ethereal album ‘La Catedral Sumergida’ or certain tracks from his beautiful ‘Arco Mediterráneo’album; and, on the other, it shows an approach to Latin American influences and sounds.

The latter is especially noticeable in the sort of sombre bossa nova that follows the intro, in the central part of percussion and vocals and, above all, in the collaboration of the Peruvian duo Alejandro and María Laura, two musicians with whom Montero has developed a beautiful friendship since they settled in our country last summer. The result is a majestic and exciting cut that begins with violins and ends with the musicians dancing to the sound of an electric guitar.

Link to new single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ettkGbFg1MQ

Report by ‘24/7 Valencia’ team

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