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$15/20 door
Established in Boston in 2007, The Macrotones are a 10-piece unit steeped in off-beat funk & soul rhythms from all over the globe. Blazing horns meet mighty hooks for a progressive mix fit to fill any dancefloor.
The band’s tightly-honed grooves and infectious sound has shared the stage with like-minded practitioners such as Lee Fields & the Expressions, Durand Jones & the Indications, the Budos Band, Grupo Fantasma, Orgone, Ikebe Shakedown, and Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars. Since typical genre descriptions fail to fully capture the scope of the Macrotones sound, new monikers need exploration: imperial funk, astrobeat, or even “a soundtrack for spies” all fit.
After numerous instrumental LP’s and EP’s released on Music ADD, a new era for the band began in 2019 when friend and occasional guest vocalist Phil Desisto joined full time. Phil’s commanding and gritty vocals, a bit like Bobby Womack meets Mike Patton, saw the band embrace more classic soul sounds from the ‘6os and ’70s, while retaining their edgy funk.
June 2024 finally saw the release of ‘From The Void’, their new LP with Phil on all 10 tracks. A feature on WBUR’s album guide remarked that “the LP showcases soulful lead vocals along with the psychedelic grooves the Macrotones have mastered.” This fall, they will follow up with an instrumental version of the album featuring two new instrumental songs not featured on the original record, and celebrate with a release party at the Lizard Lounge.
Based out of various areas of New England, Zamova is a jazz-fusion group that was formed in 2019 when Grammy award winning producer, Motif Alumni & his company The Rucker Collective joined forces with the owners behind one of Boston’s most prominent record stores, Music Research Library. With influences shaped by years of record digging, this group represents a collage of Bruton/KPM libraries, DIY bedroom-private press, & 1970’s prog rock, sprinkled with a dash of George Duke. “Expositions” is their latest release available on Madlib’s Invazion label
