ÁLVARO RUBIO
About Álvaro.
Álvaro Rubio (born December 16, 2004) is a Spanish psychedelic/experimental musician, singer-songwriter, and producer. His work is characterized by its emphasis on surrealism and dream logic.
Álvaro Rubio (16 de diciembre de 2004) es un músico psicodélico/experimental, cantautor y productor español. Sus obras se caracterizan por su énfasis en el surrealismo y la lógica onírica.
DISCOGRAPHY
Corazón Perdido (2025)
This album was released on the 21st of December 2025; the year I turned 20. Immediately after spending the last few years picking apart my childhood (and the events that shaped it), I was thrust into adulthood and the responsibilities it required. This was a very difficult period for me, as I struggled with symptoms of dissociation from balancing who I was (the introspected essence that defined me) and how I needed to enagage with the external world. Around this time, I discovered and found help in the works of Carl Jung as well as Transcendental Meditation.
Do You Hear The Colors? (2022-2024)
This is Do You Hear The Colors?, a series of albums from an imaginary band I created to try and paint a portrait of the surreal world running around my head as a child.
Each character represents a different part of the mission:
- The white rabbit represents the madcap; the insane; a language of lunacy falling madly down the rabbit hole.
- The ballerina represents beauty and order. It dances to an eternal rhythm. One we're all tuned into, though some of us stray farther away from it. I must reach it as closely as I can. I'm obsessed.
- Lastly, hiding behind a gown and gas mask are the subconscious thoughts lying in the back of your mind. You make an effort to ignore them, but they play a big part in dictating where you are now, and where you are going.
This is a place I've lived in since I was just a little boy, and it is my goal to try to immerse you in this universe as much as I can through music.
Will you stay a while?
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Retrospective notes: I have a serious soft spot for these albums. I was very introverted as a kid and often had issues dealing with my emotions, which is when I first began experiencing signs of mental health issues. However, at the same time, I had a very vivid and large imagination. My earliest memories involved me day-dreaming these strangley wonderful worlds, and attempting to make them "real" through art. These albums were made in my teenage years, as I attemped to figure out who I was by turning to the past. They're an ode to a younger me, and a promise that I will never lose that spark.
El Puente del Arzobispo (2021)
Due to the very real and life-affecting connection to my family life, I don't want to indluge too deeply into the album's meaning. They're a collection of songs made in a very dark time for a younger me to process what was happening. The liner notes for the album summarize it best:
"En los rincones ocultos del recuerdo; En un pueblo en La Mancha donde pasaste tu infancia; Hay una oscuridad creciente que antes no veías. Lo que parecían rostros familiares se perturban..."
Romance de
la Luna (2020)
I love Spain. I love its people, its landscapes, its food, and especially its art. While most of my childhood was spent abroad in Canada, I was lucky to not only preserve the culture during my time away (thanks mom and dad), but also be able to move back during my teenage years and recover what I spiritually felt I lost.
Artistically, given the vivid imagination I had as a child, I always felt a strong connection to surrealism as a movement. One aspect of Spanish culture that always felt overlooked to me was how essential we were to the development of surrealism in all forms of art: Lorca (literature), Dalí (painting), Buñuel (film), etc. While I was only 15 years old (and still had so much to learn), this was my mission statement to be a key contributor to Spain's surrealist movement until I die.
The dreamlike opus is surreal, psychedelic, haunting, but above all: Spanish.