Jimi Hazel - Face the Day

Bruce Mack aka B-Mack 

“B-Mack is a master of experimental sounds. His creativity and curiosity allows him to blend genres, bend sounds, and play mind tricks with his words.”  - Filthy Riche, The Weakly Beat

Award winning Music Conceptualist/Vocalist & Composer Bruce Mack  the artist/band is a multi-genre vocalist, composer & instrumentalist who performs and fuses various styles of music with funk & space in mind, generating a sound he calls “alternative rhythm & blues”. 

A veteran of the New York music scene,  Mack shares his talents with several ensembles including Divine Pocket Bouncers, Eighty-Pound Pug, Nubian Messengers and Rules Of Aquah.
Since 1999, Mack has been a recording, touring and conducting member of Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber (BSAC), contributing as a keyboardist, composer & vocalist often in collaboration with Vernon Reid, Jared Nickerson, Vernon Jeffery Smith and numerous others.
As a result of work w/BSAC, Mack had the honor of being vocal arranger for the legendary actor/filmmaker/composer-Melvin Van Peebles’ wid/Laxative band for several years.  Also toured with MVP in U.S. & France to perform the stage version of ’Sweet Sweetback’s Baddass Song”.
Other cutting edge greats Mack has performed with include Butch Morris, None Hendryx, Wunmi, James Blood Ulmer, Somi, 
DJ Logic, and Brandee Younger.

Since 2014, B-Mack has released 2 albums “Lo-Fi Exploits of a Misplant On Shaolin” (2018) and “Bruce Mack w/Nubian Messengers, Live at Pianos, NYC” (2019) as well as several moody-jazz-influenced lo-fi singles not typical of what BMack is known for aside from his improvised vocals on “Double O Nobody”, “Karma Can Be Long”, “I Do Udo On Monday”, “Sister Space Shifter” and “Don’t Think You Know” representing “a period of intimate self expression”.  The songs  “Ugly Head” and “Throw My Hands Up!” are closer to the sound and ideas Mack is known for as in his earlier bands PBR Streetgang & Rebels Be Phuncky (1980’s-late 90’s).   Bruce Mack writes and produces with a social conscious mind, yet never dismissing one’s need to dance which always prompts a party song with an infectious groove somewhere in his compilation of music.

Having started out as a singer with a desire to write for himself and others in a do-wop style vocal group, his creative drive hasn’t waivered.  Mack has composed & arranged for BSAC, been featured as percussionist in the alternative band Johnny Mez & The Fatman on the 2015 album “Inner City Hero”, that same year as vocalist/co-writer of 
“When The Flowers Bloom In Baltimore” an album by experimental-metal-band Eighty-Pound Pug (Alex Lozupone Project). 
Then featured again In 2016 along with Alex Lozupone & Ayumi Ishito  on the album “As Serious As A Pug-Attack”.

Bruce Mack is currently recording new music for B-Mack, alter-ego Blackfoot Ayeshi, PBR Streetgang, MsLarayne and
preparing the independent release of 3 singles in early 2024. 

Some of the artists who've graced the bands Bruce Mack has lead include: The late and great Keith Elam aka Guru of Ganstarr, Ken Edmonds, Michael Cox, Brian Hardgroove, Mark White, Val-Inc, Marvin Sewell, David Fiuzynski, Kelvyn Bell, Zhana Roiye, Michael 'Doc' Greene, The Inna-Most (Marque Gilmore), Amafujo, Mark Peterson, TruBorn (Anthony Peterson), E.J. Sharpe, Emmett McDonald, Mike Griot, Jason DiMatteo, Bill McClellan, Billy Kilsen, Jorge Sylvester, Nick Rolfe, Damon Mendez, Reggie Powe, Pete Cummings, Ben Tyree, Leon Gruenbaum, Chris Eddleton, Andrew Lamb, Will Calhoun, Sharif Kales, Nubian Messengers, Rob Youngberg.

As I can't mix properly for contemporary "speaker systems" (i.e. laptops/pads/phones,etc.),
you'll have to use something "real" (e.g. good headphones) to be able to enjoy my stuff on here. Without that, you might miss half of it....  

Whatever I play, I have to learn from scratch - every time. After finishing a piece, I forget.

Any commercial or editorial use of my work anywhere needs my hand written permission - at the very least.

Visuals:
https://youpic.com/HerbGarmsen/
https://500px.com/herbgarmsen

Musicien multi-instrumentiste depuis le début des années ‘80, j’ai joué dans pas mal de petits groupes tantôt à la batterie, à la guitare, à la basse ou au chant. J’espére partager ma musique avec le plus grand nombre...