Shredding guitar duo FauxMenco and pop tunesmith Brian Larney share the bill at Best Video Film & Cultural Center on Fri., July 31. 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.
Haunted by hooks and good old-fashioned songcraft, Brian Larney is an eclectic, non-stop music-maker. The Connecticut native splits his time performing as a solo acoustic act and as the front-man of The Brian Larney Band. He's an alternative folk-rock singer-songwriter with an honest and thoughtful style that has been described as “quirky, earnest, and vulnerable.” His songs are organic spoonfuls of classic pop and folk, naturally sweet, non-GMO, without the sugar crash; his style hearkens back to the days of Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, and maybe a bit of Partridge Family. His sound is as influenced by pop songs of the early to mid twentieth century as it is by the contemporary artists he’s often compared to.