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Zammuto (the new band) : First live shows!

Hey All,

The new band is playing it’s first ever shows:

FEB 3: Mass Moca, North Adams, MA (Western Mass, our home town venue)

FEB 4: 92YTribeca, New York, NY (Downtown)

FEB 6: Brighton Music Hall, Allston, MA (Boston Area)

Don’t miss your chance to say you were there from the beginning! We’ll be playing mostly tracks from the upcoming Zammuto LP (out April 3 on Temporary Residence), along with some ‘Books’ songs, plus a few surprises. Before the set we will be screening ‘Achante’, a short film about Haitian Vodou that we scored last year.

We will also be at SXSW in Austin in March, for the whole week, playing everyday.

‘Zammuto’ (the band) is a four piece rock set up: Nick Zammuto (yours truly on vocals, guitars), Gene Back (also from the Books, on electric guitar, organ, keys), Sean Dixon (Drums), and Mikey Zammuto (aka Mikeybass, on Bass). We just finished our second week of rehearsals and we’re all feeling giddy with excitement. As Mikey says, ” This will be Epic.”

Happily, the project has picked up a lot of momentum in the last few weeks:

The track F U C-3PO was named best new track on Pitchfork, you can listen to the Make Mine EP here:

And Prefix magazine just named us among the years most anticipated albums! (no pressure).

Also Matt Day made a short film about my life and artistic process which you can watch here: (Incredibly, it’s been viewed more than 20K times in the last week!)

Sorry if you live outside of the Northeast, we will be coming to your area by the fall if all goes as we hope…

Yours,

Nick

‘Bar Hopping’ premieres tonight in San Francisco

Tonight ‘Bar Hopping’, a collaboration between myself and (ex-Kronos Quartet cellist and composer) Joan Jeanrenaud will premiere in San Francisco. The seven-movement composition is for one or two live cellists, pre-recorded sound and video. Joan will play the performances in San Francisco and I will join her on stage for the shows in Los Angeles next week on the 27th and 28th. Info below.

Here is the third movement (without the live cello parts), called ‘Hanuman’.
Regards,

Paul

http://vimeo.com/35311257

Performances will take place:
January 20 & 21  @ 8 pm (Joan alone)
Southern Exposure (SoEx), 3030 20^th Street (@ Alabama), San Francisco
(415) 863-2141
http://soex.org/index.html

January 27th and 28th  @ 8 pm (Joan and Paul)
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciArc),
960 E. 3^rd Street, Los Angeles
(213) 613-2200
http://www.sciarc.edu/

Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time http://www.k-pst.org/

‘A Day With’ Nick Zammuto

A Day With Nick Zammuto from Matt Day on Vimeo.

Stream of the new EP

Hey Everyone,

Here’s a stream of the new EP…Now available for presale at Make Mine.   My heartfelt thanks to all who have listened, reposted, blogged and written about it this week, it was quite the showing!  We’re very excited to debut the new material live next month… 

Zammuto - Idiom Wind EP - Make Mine, London UK by zammuto

best,

Nick

2011 Year in Photos

Hey Everyone,

I just posted a new photo album here:  http://zammutosound.com/photos.cfm

These are all pictures from our little homestead in Vermont this year.  The small building with the woodshed attached is my studio where ‘The Way Out’ and the new album were written/recorded/mixed/mastered… My wife, Molly, is the pregnant gardener in all these photos, and this year the farm was incredibly productive.   Thanks to Molly, and her uncanny ability to grow things, we all ate like kings this year.  Also pictured are my boys Sepp, Asa and the newest one Cy, who was born in October.  As you’ll see, they play hard, and crash often.  The new band appears here and there, too.

Best wishes for the new year from our family to yours.

Nick Zammuto

New Shows

Hey Everyone,

I’m happy to announce that the new band is playing it’s first shows in early February!  You can get tickets here:

FEB 3:  Mass Moca, North Adams, MA

FEB 4:  92YTribeca, New York, NY

FEB 6:  Brighton Theater, Boston, MA

We had our first rehearsals in November, and it made us all quite giddy.  It’s coming together better than we had ever hoped.  Please don’t miss your chance to see these first shows: my brother Mikey has used the word ‘Epic’ more than once to describe what’s about to happen…

Here’s a (somewhat goofy) photo of the new band:

From left to right that’s my brother Mikey (Bass), Sean Dixon (NYC, Drums), yours truly (vocals, guitars) and Gene Back (From Brooklyn, who you’ll recognize from the Books, Guitar and Keys).  And yes that is a bonfire, made of branches from the great ice storm of 2008.  We lit it up last sunday:

The new show will focus mainly on the tracks I’ve been writing over the last year, with some classic and never before played ‘Books’ songs thrown in, plus a couple surprises.  The show will have some video synched with the performance (as the books show did) although the band is so fun to watch, the video component will be more contained to short bursts and set peices, to allow eyes to be on the band most of the time.  (Sean is one of the best drummers you will ever see.)  I’m working on video now, based on the vast collection of stills and vhs i’ve put together over the years, along with a few commisions, and i’m not sure how much i’ll have done by February…  but I think the show will fly either way.

And, before the show we will be screening ‘Achante’, the short film about Haitian Vodou that I scored this year.  Here’s the trailer

Achantè Extended Trailer from Mazibel on Vimeo.

Really hope to see you there!

Nick