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Fwd: Marco Benevento “The Real Morning Party” Video / “Invisible Baby” Out Now

Watch Marco Benevento’s New Video For “The Real Morning Party” Critics Weigh In On Album, Invisible Baby Brooklyn, NY — Kick your day off on the good foot with “The Real Morning Party,” the first video from Marco Benevento’s critically-acclaimed new album, Invisible Baby, on HYENA Records. Filmed in the kitchen of his Brooklyn apartment, Marco gets down in his bathrobe, effervescent colors flash on split screens and the “Real Morning Party” dance-craze is introduced to an unsuspecting nation.

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http://www.vimeo.com/659140

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSbBhXoExmw
Marco Benevento’s Invisible Baby has been drawing raves from fans and press alike. He’s just finished a five date East Coast run with his trio featuring Reed Mathis and Andrew Barr and will be announcing West Coast tour dates shortly.

Here’s what critics have been saying:

“On Invisible Baby (Hyena) with bassist Reed Mathis and drummers Andrew Barr and Matt Chamberlain, Benevento sculpts his pieces with playful weirdness too (the insect-dance hook of ‘The Real Morning Party’) and addresses the melodies and spaces in ‘Ruby’ and ‘You Must Be Lion’ with heated grace.” — David Fricke, Rolling Stone

“…Benevento is actually a pop formalist, albeit a sneaky one, and, for all his improvisational chops, a textural minimalist very much in the tradition of Brian Eno or Sigur Ros. Chaos and chance are the calling cards, but his songs are always accessible…” — Bret Gladstone, Village Voice “The new Benevento record will appeal to fans of Thelonious Monk, Air, Radiohead and Phish…tunes like ‘Bus Ride’ and ‘Are You The Favorite Person Of Anybody’ are ambient soundscapes winking at the psychedelic.” — David Callicott, New York Press “Brief and spare, yet powerful and moving, there is nothing but joy at the heart of Invisible Baby, which is nothing short of an instant classic.” — Josh Potter, Jambase.com “Benevento is something of an iconoclast on the piano. He knows his Monk and his Basie, but he prefers to play like a rock star, bashing power chords into the ivories and hooking up with others who straddle the rock-jazz line. Is it jazz? Is it rock? Hard to say, but it hardly matters.” — Steve, Greenlee, The Boston Globe “Invisible Baby is an eight track masterpiece.” — Lucas Stangl, The Late Greats “Invisible Baby will twist your synapses, feed your head, and turn on your love light. It will, in short, make you feel glad to be alive.” — Chris May, All About Jazz “…more tightly focused and accessible than the glorious sprawl of Benevento’s 3-disc, Live at Tonic outing last year, Invisible Baby remains a daring, genre-bending trio record.”
— Brit Robson, eMusic www.marcobenevento.com www.myspace.com/invisiblebaby www.hyenarecords.com For more information on Marco Benevento, please contact Kevin Calabro at HYENA Records: 718-369-6567 or HyenaRecords@aol.com

Fwd: Hey SpyDye! - The Brakes sign with Hyena Records THE BRAKES...

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:14:00 -0700

Fwd: Hey SpyDye! - The Brakes sign with Hyena Records

THE BRAKES
Sign With
HYENA Records

Debut Full Length Album TALE OF TWO CITIES
Recorded Live In New York City & Philadelphia Due In May 2008

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Brooklyn, NY — The Brakes, a Philadelphia-based band intent on staking a claim to the lineage of American rock and roll music, have signed with HYENA Records. They’ll release their debut full-length album, Tale Of Two Cities, on May 6th. The 12-track collection was recorded live during a dual city residency in the spring of 2007. The band headed up the New Jersey Turnpike every Tuesday to set up shop at The Knitting Factory in New York City, while getting cozy with hometown fans every Thursday at MilkBoy in Philadelphia. Each show was recorded and the best performances from both cities were assembled, including stand-outs versions of “Into The Ground,” “Danger Blues,” “Boat Trip,” “Song Of Imponderables” and “Empty House.”

“I’ve always loved those live records that set the bar for how tight a band can be. Those albums were always benchmarks for me, like a goal to aspire to. And going into the Philly and New York City residencies, we saw this opportunity to make a record where we could listen through multiple shows and pick the best performances,” states guitarist Matt Kass.

On Tale Of Two Cities, The Brakes are captured at an idyllic time in their evolution, transitioning between an intimate neighborhood listening room and a legendary big city rock club. But more importantly, it presents a young and swaggering rock band coming into their own, clearly electrified by the music they’re making. The Brakes seamlessly intertwine infectious indie-pop circa Ram-era Paul McCartney, crunchy California rock in the spirit of The James Gang and starry-eyed British psychedelia akin to Traffic. The resulting breadth of vision belies a band whose oldest member is 23-years old.

The Brakes formed in 2002, but their roots run much deeper. Guitarists Matt Kass and Derek Feinberg first started playing guitar together in fourth grade, only months after they’d both begun learning their instruments. All five members, including principle songwriter and vocalist Zach Djanikian, keyboardist/trumpeter Adam Flicker and drummer Josh Sack, attended the same middle school together, performing music with each another in various configurations during their high school years. By 2006, The Brakes had matured into a national touring act. The entire band would spend their 21st birthdays on the road, while going on to play dates with The Hold Steady, Robert Randolph, Widespread Panic and Willie Nelson among others.

“I think our history together adds a certain level of interpersonal musical understanding. We anticipate each other musically, better than a band that’s three months old or is auditioning a new bassist,” explains Flicker. “We feel the connection. It’s tangible. We’ve played a lot of music together. It’s like hanging out onstage every night with your best friends.”

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