Backbeat bourbon6/11/2023 ![]() “Wall-to-wall keyboards, mics, amps, drums… The place was about to explode,” Benevento laughs. As such, the album acts as a swan song for - and love letter to - his former workspace. The album started to become this document of a crazy dude losing his mind in the woods - and maybe regaining it.”īenevento has since decamped to a new, significantly larger, home studio. “The studio was a good place to be trapped,” Benevento says. Recording was conducted amidst stacks of gear in varying states of repair, all fodder for inspiration during long quarantine-dictated solo jam sessions. “This record really acts as a psychedelic window into my studio and my brain,” Benevento says. He also produced and engineered the album, all from Fred Short Studios, located at his Woodstock, NY home. ![]() With few exceptions - guest percussion from Mamadouba ‘Mimo’ Camara on a handful of songs, and backing vocal appearances by his wife and kids - Benevento played all of the instruments. Like Macca’s eponymous release, Benevento is a solo work, where song sketches and sunrise jams share space with more constructed tracks. Titled as a nod to Paul McCartney’s first solo album, the record is a similarly loose, low-key affair. This summer, hallucinatory keyboard wizard Marco Benevento pulls back the curtain on his hazy home studio with Benevento - 40-minutes of small-batch psychedelia bubbled up from the base of the Catskill Mountains. “Were going as far as you can go on the planet Earth and playing music,” explains Glaspie, “I don’t know how many times we’ve said it, we are so blessed.”ġ6th Annual Backbeat JazzFest Series presents Marco Benevento Simply put, there is something pretty magical happening in this band, and they’re only just getting started. They maintain New Orleans as their spiritual home, and the celebratory essence of that city’s music culture is audible in each performance – garnering high profile festival appearances and national acclaim from outlets like Relix, Modern Drummer, Huffington Post, Glide, Consequence, Okayplayer and Sirius XM. The Nth Power's inspirational sets have floored audiences at music festivals like Electric Forest, High Sierra, Peachfest, North Coast Music Festival and Hulaween. “Music is what brought us together, but it's the spiritual bond that makes us play so in touch with each other,” she explained. “It’s my dream team,” said Glaspie, “each one of us is a songwriter, so when we get together, everything becomes that much stronger.” Beyond raw skill, however, Glaspie cites a deep spiritual connection as the glue that binds them together. The trio features drummer Nikki Glaspie, whose credentials include Beyonce, Maceo Parker, Dumpstaphunk and countless more guitarist and lead vocalist Nick Cassarino, known best for his previous work with Jennifer Hartswick and Big Daddy Kane and bassist Nate Edgar of reggae giant John Brown's Body. The Nth Power hails from diverse musical backgrounds, races and creeds, but the universal language of love and its power to change lives is the thread that binds them. After an EP, studio album and two live albums, the band returned in 2021 in support of their second full-length studio release, Reverence, which was featured on the first-round nominations ballot for the 2022 Grammy Awards. The band's electric live performances have been flooring audiences ever since the group formed in New Orleans during an impromptu jam during Jazzfest nearly a decade ago. This all-pro alignment of sharp and seasoned musical vets delivers a transcendent blend of soul, funk, rock and rhythm and blues with multi-part vocal harmonies and songs that inspire audiences to dance, groove, make love or just stand there with goose bumps. The Nth Power believes in the healing power of music. ![]() 16th Annual Backbeat JazzFest Series presents The Nth Power with Special Guests Trumpet Mafia ![]()
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