At first, there was nothing to suggest that casual directin the night of July 25, 2015would eventually become the testimony of one of the best harmonica players that Spain has given to the blues over the last decades. The trajectory of Victor Uris It is already sufficiently well known to be told again, although we should not exclude the possibility of seeing a biography appear on the immediate horizon revealing previously unpublished aspects of his life and his musical journey.
THE Singular characters like Víctor Uris deserve to be on the shelves of good fans. This is certainly not a very widespread custom among us. We still have a long way to go to adopt a tradition rooted in other countries.
This night of July 25, 2015 Jaume Rigo gathered a series of friends at his home to celebrate his birthday and, Guests included Víctor Uris and guitarist Pedro Riestra.a man of few words but with excellent fingering for the strings. Jaume Rigo says that after this kind of recital he proposed to Víctor Uris a copy of the recording without him showing any particular interest, little inclined, Rigo remembers, to listen to himself after a concert, probably due to a deeply rooted sense of self-criticism.
Recitals in The duo format has particular importance for musicianswhether they are instrumentalists or singers. It’s there artistic quality is tested, without any coating; so that everything is in the hands of alchemy and complicity between each other. But I insist, in principle this should not be the case since it is simple entertainment.
This personal video has been practically forgotten, even if the host remembers having seen and heard several times these images which were so revealing to him. Víctor Uris had to face the last moments of his life to save this cassette, which remained for nine years in the drawer of memories. A review which led him to conclude that was one of the most successful directs, if not the best. Which once again connects us to the duo as a celebration of music in its highest regard.
There is one condition that must not be forgotten: when the end point of our life approaches, it is common to wonder what was worth it, even what we stopped doing or did wrong. This is precisely what Víctor Uris did: demand that Miguel Ángel Sancho make this nine-year-old recording, as a testimony to a way of making music. Lucidity in the last moments, to know what was really worth it. This is why the insistence on release this CD liveeven knowing that he would not see the consequences in life.
Regarding the consequences, I was struck by the massive presence of lifelong friends at the press conference accompanying his widow at the time of granting the posthumous wish that this recording had been forgotten for almost a decade.
What is remarkable, in my opinion, is that CD publishing does not seem to be a commercial operation. At all. Because the profits that will be generated by the sale will go directly to Julia, his widow, which underlines the value of the promise made by Miguel Ángel Sancho, a gentleman of the old school, the one who ended up being buried with the move of the years 80. It is important to emphasize the importance work of Mateu Picornell as author of the definitive master, scrupulously respecting the original environmentto give greater consistency to the recording that has been edited.
We are before a discographic feat that deserves to be acquired by unconditional fans of Víctor Urisin homage and gratitude.
