For those unaware, today, prolific New York City-based trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist and orchestrater MAC GOLLEHON presents Pistoleros, the newest album from his ever-morphing entourage, MAC GOLLEHON & THE HISPANIC MECHANICS. The record is now streaming everywhere alongside a theatrical trailer featuring actor Vincent Pastore.

MAC GOLLEHON & THE HISPANIC MECHANICS’ Pistoleros boldly challenges traditional genre boundaries, asserting itself as a seminal work in the evolution of modern world fusion. This innovative album simultaneously coalesces and invokes facets of beauty, terror, love, and madness, inviting listeners to explore new musical territories.

Eight original songs encompass a spirited reconstructed influence of Latin Caribbean grooves, intricate layers of cinematic jazz, broad strokes of progressive and electronica. This lamination of genres is a futuristic dialogue between traditional and contemporary, representing World music as a living and breathing entity.

Pistoleros was composed and written by MAC GOLLEHON who performs a wide array of trumpet, trombone, tuba, keys, guitar, and vocal deliveries across the album. He’s joined by percussionists Anthony Carrillo – known for his work with Batacumbele, Eddie Palmieri, Hilton Ruiz, Yambawa, Giovanni Hidalgo, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and many more – and Cuban ballet/dance and percussion master Elvis Ferrara, with additional drums and bass provided by Greg Meisenberg (A Fucking Elephant, Dead Register), and synth/noise/efx from David Brenner (Gridfailure, Diminishing).

The album was recorded and mixed by David Maurice (Jay-Z, Psychedelic Furs, 007: Quantum Of Solace), who also co-composed “Sign It,” and completed with photos and video Modern Day Auteur.

1. Pistoleros
2. Stud Poker
3. Sign It
4. MAC Attack
5. Vinny “Bay Parkway Snake”
6. Killer Joe “Zillionario”
7. Atiba “SideEye” Powers
8. Stacked Deck

World renowned trumpet assassin Mac Gollehon opens this brilliant new recording on the funk-driven, electronically pulsating title track Pistoleros and then we get the transportive Stud Poker, the effortlessly spacial Sign It and the electronica hipsway of MAC Attack.

Along next is the veritably cinematic in scope Vinny “Bay Parkway Snake” which is itself backed seamlessly by the emotively-charged Killer Joe “Zillionario,” the set rounding out on the effectively staggered Atiba “SideEye” Powers, closing on the jagged freneticism of Stacked Deck.

In the filmic trailer, we see “Mac Attack,” played by GOLLEHON, recklessly betting his entire career and record contract on a hand of Blackjack with a ruthless mob boss and cast of underworld characters, each of whom has a signature theme song on the album. The boss, Vinny the “Bay Parkway Snake,” is played by Vincent Pastore – best known as Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero in HBO’s The Sopranos, as well as films including Gotti, Shark Tale, Goodfellas, Carlito’s Way, Money Train, Mickey Blue Eyes, and many others. Jazz club owner Atiba Powers appears as Atiba “Side Eye” Powers. “Killer Joe Zillionario” is played by Joe Ferraro, a character actor and New York Blues Hall of Fame frontman of the Killer Joe Band.

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Mac Gollehon & The Hispanic Mechanics - PISTOLEROS (Theatrical Trailer)