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July 24th 2026
CD
Big Crown Records is proud to present "Glera", Marco Benevento's debut album on the label. Benevento has always moved like someone who understands the studio as its own instrument, not just a room where the toys are. Long before he began appearing on stages with Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, and in the liner notes of albums by Clairo and Leon Bridges, Benevento was already thinking like a producer - listening for texture, tension, and negative space, and for the strange emotional alchemy that occurs when groove and curiosity collide. "Glera" sharpens that instinct into focus, presenting Benevento not only as a virtuosic keyboardist and bandleader, but as a composer building worlds from rhythm, tone, and feeling. "Glera" is a genre-bending jazz record that folds in soul and reggae's elastic low end with an open-door sense of possibility. Tracks can feel like chase scenes or slow dissolves, sometimes within the same song, with jazz improvisation sharing space alongside reggae pocket, orchestral elements, and psych-pop atmosphere. It's exploratory but grounded, complex yet unmistakably groove-forward.
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