{"id":13307,"date":"2017-09-28T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13307"},"modified":"2017-09-26T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:09:14","slug":"evolfos-garage-soul-now-with-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/evolfos-garage-soul-now-with-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolfo’s Garage Soul … Now With Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of shuttling back and forth between the group’s Boston hometown and gigs in New York City, seven-member band Evolfo relocated to the more creatively fertile landscape of Brooklyn. Guitarist Matt Gibbs says that moving here \u201cshook up my views on music. It made me want to push things harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keyboardist Rafferty Swink concurs. \u201cIt just seems like the right place for us,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are so many great things happening here, and there’s more opportunity if you’re a band just starting out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nEvolfo started out in 2009 to provide music for a production of William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night<\/i>. But the band’s sound isn’t quite as old-school as a Shakespeare play. The group draws from psychedelia, garage rock and soul, and an effective mixture of all three styles is showcased on The Last of the Acid Cowboys<\/i><\/a>, the band’s debut full-length release.<\/p>\n

Seven musicians might seem like a lot of people to fit on a club stage, but Gibbs says that the original concept was for Evolfo to be even larger. \u201cI had this idea of this kind of Parliament-Funkadelic spectacle,\u201d he says. \u201cI wanted the sheer number of people on stage to be a show all in itself, like a big party onstage.\u201d Even in the real-world, scaled-down version of Gibbs’ original idea, there’s a kind of organized chaos with Evolfo.<\/p>\n

Gibbs is careful not to make too much of the \u201cgarage soul\u201d tag that’s often applied to the band. \u201cWhat we’ve been doing since we’ve been in Brooklyn,\u201d he says, \u201cis to be ourselves and let those influences kind of come to us in a more organic way \u2026 and not let our inhibitions not get the best of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band headlined the first night of Brooklyn’s three-day Pizza Fest (June 22-24). While not officially associated with the King Pizza label, Evolfo considers itself part of the label’s family. \u201cEverybody there is very generous and interested in helping us,\u201d Gibbs says. \u201cAnd we just wanted to be part of their community, supporting other bands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over 20 bands \u2013 more than half of which are Brooklyn-based \u2013 played Pizza Fest 4. Gibbs describes the festival \u2013 which was hosted by The Gutter the first two days, and El Cortez on the third day \u2013 as \u201ca whole bunch of really high energy bands, plus pizza and beer cans flying through the air.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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