CD Between The Needles & Nightfall - Importado

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.