Marco Benevento Previews New Album with Free MP3

"'Greenpoint' came from a series of ideas that I wrote on a circuit bent keyboard. It managed to piece itself together over the last two years. I had always thought about recording a tune that didn't have many changes harmonically, but had a lot of variations in drum ideas, circuit bent sounds and amplified piano. Parts come in and out throughout the song. The initial idea arrived during a time when the only thing I could listen to was a Can record called Flowmotion," explains Benevento. "'Greenpoint' is different every time we play it live. I always find that the open-ended tunes are important because it opens the audience up to receive the moment as it's happening and they can tell that you're opened up too."

Between The Needles & Nightfall was recorded at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, NY where engineer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Akron/Family) tracked Marco Benevento over three days. The material was drawn from fragments of melodies and song ideas that Benevento had been collecting throughout the year. To achieve the colors he envisioned for these compositions, Benevento recorded on a baby grand piano bolstered by guitar pick-ups, amplifiers and a myriad of pedals and circuit bent toys, while adding flourishes of Moog, Optigan, Mellotron and Farfisa.

Marco Benevento, who was recently profiled on NPR's All Things Considered, will also take part in this summer's Celebrate Brooklyn concert series where he'll re-score 'The Fall Of The House Of Usher," the '60s film starring Vincent Price and based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story. The performance, scheduled for Friday, August 6, will feature Benevento playing his newly composed score along with the movie for a live audience. A full list of summer tour dates are below.