Bo'Weavil Rec.
Victor Herrero : Anacoreta (SP,2009)****
It is said that Victor Herrero started as a Benedictine monastery chorister, then played for a whole while in a psycho-rock band. He has released before an album as a pianist under the name of Victor Cicely (“Connotaciones para Piano” SGAE, 2006). Lately he was know for his cooperation on stage and on the latest album of Josephine Foster. Last but not least he has a distinctive guitar style, an attractive style between light and strong, influenced by Spanish flamenco, lightly swinging, with a powerful touch of full-five-fingers fantasies in the playing, but most often also with a lighter touch as if from a small wing, no claws, even harp-like on 6, like a sometimes strange minimal-impressionist version of flamenco (4), being able to hum more the chords, trrrmmm trrmmm playing with a heard fire in background, on a wine bottle’s wine-falling-in-a glass-sound rhythm, like a new impression after a dance : a song, strummed impressions with Spanish effect, recalling the energy of the flamenco softly, or taking a trip on the rhythm of a burning heard fire (burning occasionally in the background), melodically happy at times. On the last track he also shows a few more occasional free moves in between the recognisable melodic evolutions. An album which succeeds in leaving a warm impression.
