DE PASO

De paso is a collection of songs written across different periods, cities and personal chapters of Juan Andrés Ospina’s life. Some of the pieces existed for years as unfinished musical ideas until 2025, when he decided to finally record them.

The album was largely conceived and produced in solitude during an extended creative residency at Michael League’s studio in Prats de Rei (Catalonia), where Ospina recorded pianos, guitars, voices, trumpets and arrangements before gradually inviting guest musicians into the project.

With De paso, Ospina reveals another facet of his artistic work, presenting his singer-songwriter voice alongside his background as composer and arranger. The album unfolds through intricate arrangements, layered textures and an extensive vocal writing process, moving freely between styles, colors and musical atmospheres.

From an intimate and poetic perspective, the songs explore different ways of observing life, memory and the world — less as a stylistic statement than as a personal document shaped by movement, transition and accumulated musical ideas finally given a definitive form.

The recording brings together an international group of collaborators including Silvina Moreno (Argentina), Michael League (USA), Andrés Rotmistrovsky (Argentina), Petros Klampanis (Greece), Juan Berbín (Venezuela/Spain), Marcelo Woloski (Argentina/Spain), Bartolomeo Barenghi (Italy/Spain), Keita Ogawa (Japan/US), Marta Roma (Spain), among other close musical collaborators.