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MARCO BENEVENTO

April 7, 2022 @ 7:00 pm

Details

Date:
April 7, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.sinclaircambridge.com/events/detail/417405

Venue

The Sinclair
52 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Phone:
(617) 547-5200
Website:
http://www.sinclaircambridge.com
About

Over the course of seven studio albums and countless shows around the world, keyboardist Marco Benevento has amassed a devoted fanbase, while drawing praise from tastemakers far and wide. Los Angeles Times has written, “it’s safe to say that no one sees the keyboard quite like Marco Benevento’s genre-blind mashup of indie rock, jazz and skewed improvisation,” while NPR Music raves that Benevento combines “the thrust of rock, the questing of jazz and the experimental ecstasy of jam,” and Rolling Stone praises “the textures and colors available in his keyboards and arsenal of manipulated pedals and effects along with his deceptively rich, catchy melodies and straight-ahead grooves.”

 

Indeed, Marco Beneventos music covers a wide swath of ground, seemingly connecting the dots in the vast space between LCD Soundsystem and Leon RussellHis songwriting is smart and earthy, yet simultaneously pulsating with dance rock energyBenevento’shigh energy live shows—fronting a three-piece band currently comprised by bassist Karina Rykman and drummer Dave Butler—have led to numerous high profile appearances, ranging from CarnegieHall to Pickathon. In the studio, hes collaborated with the likes of Richard Swift (The Shins, Nathaniel Rateliff), Leon Michels (Lee Fields, Freddie Gibbs) and Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers, The Lumineers) among others.

 

On his latest single, “At The End Or The Beginning,” Marco Benevento dives deep down a psych funk rabbit hole, capturing the current Zeitgeist with lyrics like “We can walk and keep our distance, The whole world changed in an instant,” as it creates a euphoric trance state where listeners can reimagine these troubled times through surrealistic optimism and the pure joy of an irresistible groove.