Reik presents his new album “Panorama”, the most ‘free’ of his entire career

reik This week in Miami he presented his new album and world tour ‘Panorama’, “a neat and professional production,” according to the members of this Mexican band in an interview with EFE. Jesús Navarro, Gilberto ‘Bibi’ Marín and Julio Ramírez explained that it is the “most intentional” project they have done since they got together in 2003 to create Reik in their native Mexicali (Baja California).

“Not just the music. The tour was also conceived in a different way. “It has been a long time since we prepared a tour tied to an album, with a new musical concept that really represented where we are in music,” Marin said.

“We are in a very special moment in which we want to celebrate with the public everything we have been through together and our present,” indicated Ramírez, the composer.

They emphasize that the name of the album “reflects the concept” after having gone through traditional Latin pop, tropical genres and different urban subgenres.

After two EPs, the musicians said they felt the need to look at their musical landscape. They wanted to present to the public, who have been accompanying them for two decades, a project that would represent them musically.

The result is a kind of “back to basics, a return to the essence of Reik, but updated, with another language and a neat and professional production,” said Navarro, the vocal leader.

After achieving more than 28 billion views on streaming platforms, plus almost 10 million YouTube subscribers and 20 million monthly listeners on Spotify, the artists felt they could “do what we wanted to do.”

Navarro recalled that for much of his career the path was clear, because “you could do whatever you wanted to do in music and no one would hear it, or if you wanted to be played on the radio, so that your songs would be known, you had to join in. that was playing.”

This time, there were no barriers, “Which is a wonderful feeling, but it also becomes quite overwhelming because suddenly there is freedom to do anything, which is new. It’s scary”, acknowledged the artist.

Songs like ‘El Correct’ with Carin León, ‘Thanks for Nothing’ and ‘Abril’, which came out two weeks ago, are now available. In Miami the band previewed ‘Baja California’, which talks about the life they have at home, including the nights on the beaches of Rosarito.

“This is the first time I’ve sung it outside of a studio and I’m nervous, forgive me for my mistakes”said Navarro, before singing his “favorite” song from the album, his first in five years. The rest of the songs will be available in the coming weeks, but they want them to be a surprise.

They explained that “the common thread is us, the truth and great care with being consistent and respectful of quality and respect for people. There are love ballads and veinbreakers. There is movement and there is calm.”

There are also, for the first time for Reik, bad words. “We are very foul-mouthed, well Juli not so much, but we decided to write songs as we speak. And we were nervous about that too, but so far people love it,” Navarro said.

The artists also sang in a presentation in Miami three of their greatest hits ‘Noviembre’, ‘Creo en ti’ and a fun version of ‘Si me dice que si’, their hit with the Colombian artist Camilo.

The Bibi and Juli concerts, as they call each other and are known to fans, look close and fun because the artists feel “more comfortable” than ever.

The ‘Panorama Tour’, which will visit 25 cities, begins on May 11 in Florida and is followed by Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas, Massachusetts, New York and the city of Washington, before crossing into the southwest of the United States.

Of course, Navarro warned that they should not expect to see them partying: “It’s not the same to get up late or get drunk at 19, at 20, or at 40 or 41. And the worst thing is that they really don’t even exist anymore. “We feel like it,” he said.

With information from EFE