Israel B presents his new album ‘Mi Propio Peor Enemigo’

‘This album is about the duality between light and darkness. It’s about those circumstances when you feel invincible and in the moment, or even in the same instant, you feel insecure and lost. It’s about those mental wars and those days when you feel like everything and then you lose your illusion for no reason’. These are contradictions that we can all identify with and that Israel relates in first person in his new album ‘Mi propio peor enemigo’ (My own worst enemy).

Not in vain, in the fourteen songs that make up this album, Israel B talks about the conflict generated by the question of whether to go ahead or break with everything. A conflict, that of knowing that you can be number one but not being willing to assume the rules of others to achieve it, which other personalities such as artists or sportsmen have already suffered, as he shows in the video presentation that he released on Monday 25 November. During the album, he makes nods to figures such as Iverson, 2pac, Antonio Flores or Lamine Yamal’s father, as well as Mágico González or Balotelli in the visuals presenting the album.

Because Israel B knows that he is not alone in this war: ‘It happens to a lot of people, and I think it’s because of the competitiveness and the speed at which the world moves. And there are areas, like the artistic field, where it should be the opposite. We should spend more time developing our work instead of thinking about how someone else is doing it or what they are wearing at the moment. This haste and these demands are harmful and make us lose focus of what is really important’, he explains.

These are ideas to which Israel has given musical form in the fourteen songs that make up this ‘My own worst enemy’. An LP produced by Lowlight and in which the Orcasitas native acknowledges ‘not having looked for a specific sound for the record. Although as we recorded it, it took on the form of a novel’ and he adds, “because it tells a story, narrated in a black and white atmosphere”.

And in this story, in which we said that Israel B was not alone, he is joined by friends such as Ébano, Dano, Ergo Pro, Ill Pekeño, La Pardo and Atomic Otro Way. They all accompany him on this intimate and introspective journey, in this struggle between angels and demons that mark the destiny, but above all the present, of the singer from Madrid. Because as he himself acknowledges: ‘I don’t think much about my future, I let myself go in that sense. I leave it a bit to God and whatever has to come will come’. ‘My own worst enemy’.

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