United by their love of tasteful grooves and shared musicianship the Marino Brothers are back making sweet and uplifting music to enhance any gathering, garden party, book launch, decree nisi, ad hoc celebration, Nobel award, failing public house, quiet bar...
Rooted in retro-funky-disco-jazzy-lounge-pop grooves they combine adept playing flair, with a drummer. An instrumental quartet; casual but tight playing with occasional solos and improvisational detours...
Bookings, enquiries, requests, recipes, silly questions, just mail Nonna Marino and she'll be happy to answer (avoid dinnertimes).
LIVE SAMPLER
Bertolli Marino
Little is known about Bertolli Marino, (widely regarded as the best looking of the brothers). All we know is that early on in his life he sold his humble olive farm to buy a bass guitar. They kept the name. And all the money.
Birth; unknown. Residence; unknown. Talent; unknown.
Rocco Marino
Youngest of fratelli Marino, Rocco first showed an interest in music when found at 6 years old dancing around Nonna’s kitchen to Diana Ross. On one biennial family trip to the ‘old country’ uncle Grigio showed him some minor 7 flat 5 chords on a cheap guitar; Rocco simply couldn’t care less and took up interpretive mime. Years later Rocco discovered a real proper electric guitar trapped in a neighbours’ cottage. Upon liberating it he spent literally minutes learning ‘Stairway’, was promptly slapped by his brothers and told ‘thou shall funk it’...
Nikos Marino
Nikos 'the Greek' Marino, adopted brother of the family was, according to Nonna Marino found many years ago in an Onassis shipping container on a remote Italian beach. Nikos remembers none of this, in fact, he generally remembers very little these days. Apart from his name, the most Greek thing about him is he emits a faint whiff of tzatziki, and has 21 cousins.
Gino Marino
An olympic hide-and-seek medalist, Gino found his passion for rhythm while accidentally parked for three hours in a notorious dogging hotspot. Years spent as a church choirboy, his angelic & haunting soprano clarity is utterly wasted in an instrumental band, but the mental scars are lasting, and he still walks with a limp. Rarely sober, Gino brings his acute levity and ridiculous lack of practise to any Marino performance. Can often be found still playing after the others have stopped; he calls this ‘jazz’.
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