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| Between the Needles and Nightfall |
| Marco Benevento |
| első megjelenés éve: 2010 |
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| (2010)
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| 4.511 Ft
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| 1. | Greenpoint
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| 2. | Between the Needles
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| 3. | Two of You
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| 4. | Numbers
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| 5. | It Came From You
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| 6. | Ila Frost
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| 7. | Risd
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| 8. | You Know I'm No Good
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| 9. | Music is Still Secret
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| 10. | Wolf Trap
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| 11. | Snow Lake
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Jazz
Adam Sachs - Assistant Engineer
Andrew Barr - Drums, Drums (Electric), Percussion
Bryce Googin - Engineer
Fred Kevorkian - Mastering
Kevin Calabro - Management
Marco Benevento - Keyboards, Optigan, Piano, Producer
Merritt Jacob - Assistant Engineer
Michael Benevento - Photography
Michael Didonna - Package Design
Reed Mathis - Bass (Electric)
Between The Needles & Nightfall was conceived at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, NY where engineer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Akron/Family) tracked Marco Benevento and his trio over three days. To achieve the colors he envisioned, Benevento recorded on a baby grand piano bolstered by guitar pick-ups, amplifiers and a myriad of pedals and circuit bent toys, while overdubbing Moog, Optigan, Mellotron and Farfisa. He then transferred the tracks to his home studio, taking the next two months to cut, loop and shape the pieces into full-fledged songs.
For the final mixes, Benevento handed off his work to three of his favorite engineers: Mell Dettmer (Sunn O))), Eyvind Kang), Jesse Lauter (Low Anthem, Elvis Perkins) and Vid Cousins (Amon Tobin, Kid Koala). The results range from the day-glo electro-rock of It Came From You to the simply-stated lullaby Ila Frost to the shimmering Arcade Fire-meets-Brad Mehldau anthem Two Of You.
With the release of Between The Needles & Nightfall, Marco Benevento continues to define himself as one of the most prolific new voices of his era, blurring genres from song to song, and more often from measure to measure, with his own take on simple pop pleasures, dance party rave-ups and art jazz experimentation.
Marco Benevento's first two studio recordings, Invisible Baby and Me Not Me, took an approach that smashed all of his musical interests together in a delightful, loopy, sometimes slightly insane musical mess of jazz, rock, funk, classical, cartoon, and jam band music. Backed by a rhythm section (usually bassist Reed Mathis and drummer Andrew Barr), he played an array of vintage keyboards (including a baby grand piano with guitar pickups and an amplifier) and "circuit bent toys." His music on those records is unclassifiable, wonderfully humorous, and full of surprises, because it shifts not only genres but textures, dynamics, and arrangements very quickly; often spastically, and he makes it all sound easy.
Between the Needles and Nightfall is a change-up in his approach. With Mathis and Barr, Benevento still uses his array of toys, and he still employs many genres of music, but he’s consciously decided to make this batch of tunes more structural and formal. The musical collision course he's previously charted has been smoothed into grooves, easily identifiable melodies, and actual loops -- in other words, songs. Each tune here, once its theme is established, is identifiable all the way through to its end. There isn’t a lack of ideas here, far from it; if anything there is a compositional framework that is as original as his more abstract work. What is here is a very deliberate attempt at creating a record that can be easily digested -- even ignored, borrowing an idea (and interpreting it maximally rather than ambiently) from Brian Eno -- as it plays. The title track uses a spare set of chords and accents Mathis’ electric bass as much as it does a lilting, nostalgic melody that gradually develops into an anthemic brand of hummable melancholy with martial drumming from Barr. "It Came from You" employs percussion loops, programs, and layers of keyboards that move through drum‘n'bass and eventually morph into a surreal cartoon music whose melody is unforgettable once encountered, even though there are sly solos on piano and organ inside it. “You Know I’m No Good” is like the Ramsey Lewis Trio grooving on a montuno in a Sergio Leone western before it transforms into impure soul-jazz, all the while keeping the groove in the pocket with enough distorted sound effects to shove it into the 21st century. Initial listens might seem underwhelming, but that's deceptive: there is much sleight of hand going on here that repeated once reveal numerous surfaces grafted onto and inside one another. Between the Needles and Nightfall is an excellent introduction to Benevento for new listeners. It contrasts nicely with his previous offerings and reveals a more accessible dimension to a musician so original that he can ultimately only be judged against his own standard. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Marco Benevento
Active Decade: '00s
Born: 1977 in Livingstone, NJ
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Experimental Rock, Neo-Bop
Marco Benevento is a young keyboardist whose jazz-rooted work has expanded to include indie rock, jam band, and post-rock/experimental influences. Born in 1977 and raised in the northern New Jersey town of Livingston, Benevento studied piano and befriended an aspiring drummer named Joe Russo in a junior-high detention hall. After high school, while Russo migrated westward to Boulder, CO, and fell into the hippie jam band scene there, the more jazz-inclined Benevento moved to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music, from which he graduated in 1999 after studying keyboards under noted jazz pianist and instructor Joanne Brackeen. Following college, Benevento formed a popular Boston-area improvisational outfit called the Jazz Farmers, which continued when Benevento resettled in New York City in 2001. Running into his old junior-high buddy Russo at a Medeski, Martin & Wood gig, Benevento accepted an invitation to perform a series of duo gigs at the Knitting Factory, which turned into a full-time partnership as the Benevento/Russo Duo. Benevento has released four albums with Russo: Benevento/Russo Duo, Darts, Best Reason to Buy the Sun, and Play Pause Stop. Tying into Russo's roots in the jam band scene, the duo also spent much of 2006 touring as half of former Phish leader Trey Anastasio's backing band. In 2007, Benevento began a live residency at the New York club Tonic, which led to the August 2007 release of Live at Tonic, a three-CD set taken from those shows that ranges from traditional small-combo jazz to post-rock/experimental soundscapes.
---Stewart Mason, All Music Guide |
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