FauxMenco and Space Cranes share the bill at Best Video Film & Cultural Center on Sat., May 17. The show starts at 7 PM and the cover is $10.
Blending the fire of nuevo flamenco, the edge of metal, and the groove of acoustic rock, FauxMenco - the nylon-string guitar duo of Catherine Capozzi and Rafi Sofer - is set to release their debut EP, Speed X Volume = FauxMenco, on May 17. The five-track collection will be available exclusively via Bandcamp and at live shows.
Speed X Volume = FauxMenco explores the intersection of art and survival through five cinematic,emotionally charged instrumentals. Whether inspired by environmental loss or rediscovered life, the EP is a bold statement from a duo carving their own sonic path.
FauxMenco are Catherine Capozzi and Rafi Sofer, translating their loud and adventurous experimental electric guitar worlds to nylon string guitars. Drawing from rock, metal, classical, flamenco, surf, manouche, and the ambience of time & space, FauxMenco loves to explore—striving to create exciting guitar dreamscapes that are propulsive and timeless. ”The legacies of Paco De Lucia and Jimi Hendrix lead to FauxMenco’s take on relaxed mayhem.”
Selected by Brian May to win his famed “Red Special” electric guitar, Catherine is a genre bending and award winning film composer and producer. Israeli-born Rafi Sofer is a sound and visual artist—head engineer at Boston’s legendary Q Division Studios by day, street and macro photographer by night.
Based in Plantsville, CT, Space Cranes is the husband and wife duo of singer/multi-instrumentalists Chris Barrett and Kate Connell. The many genres of music they love that filters into their pop songs and instrumentals includes britpop, krautrock, lounge music, irish/folk music, synthpop, noise core, soul, jazz, acid rock, am pop and more.
While their recorded output as Space Cranes largely consists of eclectic versions of Christmas songs, the formerly Boston, MA-based duo counts among their credits four Boston Music Awards, music/performances appearing on CNN, Lifetime, the History Channel, and scoring a PBS series. They’re also founding members of such bands as Spring Heeled Jack, Eddie Japan and Kingsley Flood. And for the past decade or so they have been participants in that New Haven Thanksgiving Eve tradition of taking part in Dean Falcone’s Vomitorium at Cafe Nine.