Glera

Description

Big Crown Records is proud to present Glera, the first album by Marco Benevento on the label. Marco Benevento has always approached music-making as an instrument in itself, not merely a room where instruments are stored. Long before sharing the stage with Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, and contributing to the liner notes of albums by Clairo and Leon Bridges, Benevento was already thinking like a producer: listening to textures, tensions, silences, and that strange emotional alchemy born from the meeting of groove and curiosity. His new album, Glera, refines this instinct and reveals Benevento not only as a virtuoso keyboardist and bandleader, but also as a composer who builds worlds from rhythm, timbre, and emotion. Glera is a jazz album that transcends genres, incorporating soul and the deep bass of reggae into a boundless exploration of possibilities. This project began three years ago as a personal exercise, with Benevento composing intuitively, inspired by film scores and Italian melodies. Over time, these sketches evolved into a larger, more powerful work, culminating in the grand majesty heard here. The result is music with a cinematic fluidity, never falling into preciousness. The tracks evoke chase scenes or crossfades, sometimes within a single song, where jazz improvisation meets reggae groove, orchestral elements, and a psych-pop atmosphere. It is exploratory music yet grounded in reality, complex yet decidedly groovy. A record that embodies movement, evolving the past without ever stopping.