Delicate craft pieces (…) EL FARO DE VIGO Alberto Leyenda
After releasing a beautiful EP called ‘Fórmula’ last year, Peña are back now with their first studio work entitled ‘Carreiro’. A surprising debut, not only in terms of transcending folk, but also in terms of contemporary music coming from Galicia.
Using their own roots as a point of departure, the band formed by Toño Magariños (diola, Unicornibot), Rubén Abad (Cro!, Trilitate) and Elena Vázquez (Trilitrate) has been able to weave together an exquisite body of songs, which combines simplicity with idiosyncrasy and formal bravery. The subconscious pulse of popular music is represented to us in such amplified harmonies, that overflows our listening experience in extraordinary ways.
One way or another, in the end, we are left with the feeling that love remains in each and every one of these songs, in the form of an hypnotic call home: a familiar space where images of our childhood are projected, although we discover in them some elements subtly rearranged now… not everything seems to be exactly where it was.
