Artist description Midnight on main street U.S.A. Outside a smoky lounge you hear a music so evocative and compelling that you are driven to step inside. Upon entering, you see across the room of well dressed patrons, a beckoning stage upon which all eyes are focused. Intoxicated by the hypnotic rhythms, you are drawn, trance-like, closer and closer. After fighting through the crowd, you finally reach the stage front and before you stands a group of dashingly handsome men. Their soaring vocals, dynamic guitars, and throbbing percussion seduce and transport you to another world...

Music Style swinging latinesque lounge

Musical Influences Elvis, Machito, Frank Sinatra

Similar Artists The Naughty Ones, The Useless Playboys

Artist History Formed in 1995.

Group Members Phil Roulet, Pel Mel Torme, Pablo Marengue, Jimmy Lonesome, Dennis DeMeo, Pedro Calliente

Instruments guitar, drums, latin percussion, vibes, bass

Albums Exotic and Mysterious, the Sounds of Voodoo Martini

Press Reviews Led by Certain Genera/Corvairs crooner Phil Gammage, VM mix a potent cocktail of dark, irresitable film noir romance with "fake Latin lounge," first drenching each moody number with melodrama, then lifting it with the dead seriousness of great musicianship and Gammage's true-blue voice. Melanie Bush, Village Voice The best thing about the bubbling lounge music scene is how it mixes the pleasant, sentimental music of the 40's and 50's with 90's smart-ass attitude. On EXOTIC AND MYSTERIOUS, THE SOUNDS OF VOODOO MARTINI, New Yorks Voodoo Martini mix Latin-tinged guitar work and percussion with Elvis Presley-meets-Steve Martin vocals, the result of which is an oddly soothing cocktail. Singer/songwriter Phil Gammage doesn't tip toe around his subject matter, as demonstrated in "Men Without Shame" a story of love gone awry. "When you got her back to the motel you found out she was a he but you went ahead anyway." While the Martinis call their music "power lounge", theirs is not a blend of hard rock and swinger's music, as that term might connote. Rather the boys in the hand groove on salsa riffs ("Hungry for Love"), Bohemian bongos, Mexican love ballads ("Lap Dance"), and jazzy vocal stylings ("Not Afraid Anymore") in pasting together their world. Make no mistake about it, Voodoo Martini are for real. Deft without being overbering, Gammage and his band mates offer up the perfect soundtrack for your next cabana bash. Dave Brigham, Webnoize

Location New York, NY - USA

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