★★★★★
With Swift , the always intrepid and imaginative Marco Benevento continues to blaze an uncompromising and continuously inspired trail with each record. The album title is both a nod to its producer Richard Swift (The Shins, Foxygen) and an illustrative way of describing Benevento's steadily frenetic touring and recording pace over the last decade...
- www.relix.com
2014-09-13
★★★★★
Marco Benevento's organ intro to opener "Limbs of a Pine" recalls the Who's "Baba O'Riley," but the comparison ends there, as vocalist Kalmia Traver of the indie-rock band Rubblebucket comes in with the surrealistic line "We wanna have a time/Wanna wake up body painted in the limbs of a pine." (The expression was coined by Benevento's wife, while explaining the aftermath of drinking whiskey and why she swore off it...
- jazztimes.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Keyboardist Marco Benevento has made a name for himself as a musician's musician steeped in a jazzy, jammy style of adventurous playing with the Benevento-Russo Duo, Bustle in Your Hedgerow and a memorable 2006 tour with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon from Phish. This style works great in the live setting, but as with many jam-oriented artists, capturing that energy in the studio can be a challenging endeavor...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-11
★★★★★
Royal Potato Family Opening with a flurry of weird keyboard noises, the first 30 seconds of Marco Benevento's new album TigerFace seem like an appropriate enough intro. Then lead vocals, courtesy of Rubblebucket's Kalmia Traver, leap into the fray, marking the first appearance of vocals on a Benevento album...
- www.jambands.com
2012-09-20
★★★★★
Royal Potato Family When artists who specialize in instrumental music use vocals, it can seem forced--like a stunt. That's not the case with keyboardist Marco Benevento, whose warm, approachable melodies have always beckoned for lyrics. On TigerFace, his fourth studio release to date, Benevento offers three songs with words, each of which comes off as natural as waking up or breathing...
- www.relix.com
2012-09-20
★★★★★
When a renegade instrumentalist such as keyboardist/sonic adventurer Marco Benevento records an album with a relatively big budget, and with the shock-horror addition of a vocalist, it can be bad news for the core audience. Bye bye bohemia, hello mainstream...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-09-17
★★★★★
Holy shit. Those drums. That buzzy bass that makes me make my orgasm face. The way Escape Horse starts off I was sure it was gonna be an Audioslave track. I expected the fleeting joy of the drum/bass/cum face combo to eventually be destroyed by derivative song writing about overcoming some unseen foe or some shit. And then... That piano drops. MuthaFuckin Marco Benevento, that dreamy eyed son of a bitch kicks in and gets my feet tapping, my soul singing and my smile smiling...
- www.syffal.com
2012-01-12
★★★★★
Marco Benevento is by no means a newcomer to the music scene, he is perhaps better known for his collaborations with Joe Russo. Together they have been making jazz based lounge music under the name Benevento/Russo Duo since 2002. Benevento/Russo managed to push ambient jazz music as far as it would go, with a sound reminiscent of early Royksopp, they created music that was not-so-easy listening. Me not me is the latest solo album by Marco Benevento. Well, nearly solo...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
At first glance, keyboard wizard Marco Benevento's Live at Tonic, featuring highlights from his November 2006 residency at the legendary and now-defunct New York jazz club Tonic, is intimidating. At three discs long, the album's full playing time is slightly over three hours. However, even though it is a whole lot of music, the album doesn't feel long and that's why it works...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
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