Tonight, Zammuto, the most recent project of Nick from the innovative sounds and visuals of The Books, will be playing at Brighton Music Hall. This is your chance to be there from the beginning, and to emerse yourself in the extremely fun music, Nick said.
“Sean Dixon and I found a way to use the drums that doesn’t sound like rock. There’s a lot of polyrythmic, African sound,” he said. Gene Back does great multi-tracks, (all the orchestral stuff), Nick’s brother Mike plays bass, and Nick does the vocals. Zammuto is taking over where the Books left off, he said. (Explore some of the Books sounds by exploring their virtual “living room.”)
The drums create a rhythmic groove, this kind of a heartbeat that holds it all together. Then, it’s the experimentation.
“I wait for something that kind of speaks to me. I never plan it out, it just kind of happens,” he said. “Often the melodies are sample, or the songs are sampled.”
He gets inspiration from whatever he can get, he said. Including his large collection of outdated VHS tapes, documentaries, and How To videos that never hit the mainstream.
Zammuto found synthesizers, and use these weirdly modulated sounds to tie together the score he wrote for Achante’s film “Lenkadu,” a documentary on Haitian voodoo, as practiced in the city and the country.
The film will be screened before Zammuto performs on Monday, showing members of the voodoo community being possessed.
“It’s raw human emotion, it’s just super intense, and they’re kind of channeling these spirits. And, a lot of drumming goes on,” he said.
Nick’s a guy from Vermont with a family, a real outsider to, but he said he was able to use the drumming from the film, the voice of the voodoo, as the drum. Then he decided the melodic material should be this other worldly possessed sound.
Hence, the synthesizers.
“It gets pretty freaky sometimes,” he said.
It will be one of the bands first shows before the release of their self -titled record, he said through chuckles. Although, he did consider Doda the Exploda and Sexsexful, “but he can’t live up to that anymore.”
Get Tickets for Zammuto at Brighton Music Hall on Monday, January 6 at 8:00 pm. Achante’s documentary on Haitian voodoo will be screened before the show.
-Sydney Lindberg
