Herbieman

In 2001 Gervasio Goris was 26 years old. He had graduated from college and opened a recording studio in his old parent’s house, in Buenos Aires Argentina. During the recording of his band’s fourth album, a huge political crisis hit the fan. “ I remember watching the social unrest on TV, just a few miles from the recording studio while doing the solos for Scherzo’s song “Hoy es el fin”, says Gervasio from his current North Miami residence. “ It was surreal, recording in an enclosed space while out there people where dying and rioting”. After this political turmoil and some serious consideration Gervasio thought it was time to move on, to follow the steps of his family that had previously moved to Miami. This was certainly a pivot point in Gervasio’s life.
He packed all his recording gear, his guitars and a solo album he recorded in 2002 before leaving his home country. It was loaded on to a 40 foot sailboat that his father had built in the 80’s, the “Tremebunda”. Aboard this sailboat he had the most amazing 95 day trip that prepared him for his new life in the U.S.A.
When he arrived in Miami in April 2003, he decided to start from the ground up and make a name for himself in the timid Miami music scene. He created his own label, Neworld Records and released “Little Boy” in November 2003. At that same time he met an Argentinian girl that would eventually become his wife and mother of his kids. The “little boy period" faded into a more mature period for “Herbieman”.
“I think of Herbieman as my alter ego, my creative self. It is me and it is also the name of the band that performs my songs”, says Goris.
In 2004 he started working on music for advertising where he sung and composed in many successful advertising campaigns. He once again reopened a commercial studio, only to find out that what really made him happy was to record and perform his own songs. In 2007 he started recording the base tracks for what would eventually become his second solo album “Together”.
Gervasio explains that “the new songs talk about a new period in my life, a period when one realizes that life has a different plan than what we originally dream about. And that this plan is even better than the one we were dreaming of.”
With many changes going on in Gervasio’s life, the album took 5 years to produce, edit, arrange and finally mix. The result is a very personal approach on the transition of a person from young adult to responsible father. Songs that talk about love, doubt, rejection, rage and the desperate need to share one’s life with another being. The album talks about the constant struggle of a man “to-get -her”.
The new album "Together" has been released on Goris’ Neworld Records label, which also sells and distributes music for many other Latin American artists. His newly recruited live band has been hitting the venues in South Florida to making sure Herbieman's music is alive and recognized on the South Florida scene. Only this time, Gervasio himself seems less timid and with more compromise to the project than ever.