Tropical Nites

Music Factory Records presents Tropical Nites, a Full Length LP from Roman Angelos. "Tropical Nites" features the octet of composer Rich Bennett on guitar, Brittany Anjou on vibraphone, Ben Zwerin on bass, Spencer Cohen on drums, Dennis Boolyoins on percussion, Rose Rutledge on flute, with Deidre Rodman-Struck on piano.

Following up on the success of albums “Music for Underwater Supermarkets” and its full remix album sibling LP “Supermarkets, Underwater”, Roman Angelos takes us into the night with ‘Tropical Nites’. Written during a holiday in Key West, the themes of the record were all composed in a single sleepless night while sitting out on a hotel balcony. Produced by the prolific Shawn Lee (Young Gun Silver Fox, Ping Pong Orchestra), the music is a sonic meeting of Ennio Morricone and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The album evokes imagery of desolate streets and after hours in empty bars; a world of vacation and pleasure imbued with isolation and loneliness.

Lead single ‘Motorbike Journey’ serves as a pleasant introduction to the compositional world and approach of Roman Angelos; the vibraphone leads with a theme somewhere between riff and melody, while the trombone weaves in and out with short melodic solos. The song later develops into a burst of rich harmony that enters and exits at unexpected points, always surprising the listener.

According to composer and guitarist Rich Bennett, "Motorbike Journey is about our tendency to always look back on past experiences and focus on them in place of what is presently going on. Often it doesn’t seem to matter if we’re in the middle of a sublime experience or a high point of life, sometimes we’re always stuck looking in the rearview mirror on times past."

Roman Angelos is the nom de plume of Brooklyn-based producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Rich Bennett, developed as a vehicle to explore his obsession with library recordings of the 60's and 70s, muzak and exotica. Exotic, moody, and wistful, this is a classic septet sound imbued with the atmosphere of modern ambient music.