Fonkmasters

The Fonkmaster Survives & Score Soundtrack Honors
By: Phreshwater Magazine:

Survivor Gregory J. Bennett aka Fonkmaster is back with a BANG after surviving the devastation and aftermath of several recent hurricanes throughout the New Orleans and surrounding areas. With his new project entitled ‘Confunkshunal Chillout‘, Gregory takes on a new brand called “smooth electronica” to help bolster his addictive arsenal of ambient/chillout soundscapes and funky smooth jazz laced grooves. ‘Confunkshunal Chillout’ is getting rave reviews from the preliminary feedback of industry insiders. This new brand of music can also be heard on the soundtrack of the highly anticipated film, ‘Cain and Abel’ of Mercury Rising Films, distributed by Maverick Entertainment. As The Fonkmaster, Gregory is an award-winning innovator of atmospheric and funkafied electronic grooves with pop sensibilities. He is also an orchestral composer of his special brand of contemporary cinematic instrumental soundscapes. Gregory is a diversified instrumentalist as an intricate one-third component of the group Greg B & The Fonkmasters. The trio also includes collaboration from talented vocalists Tara Marion and Lucy Nickson. Some of Gregory’s instrumental tracks have been licensed to cable TV programming on VH-1, MTV, The Food Network, HGTV, The E Channel and the Weather Channel, just to name a few. He can also be heard on music-on-hold applications and the internet. Gregory also received the Listen and Exchange Award for being one of the Top 10 indie producers in 2003. Most recently, Music Emissions named him one of the Best Indie Music Content Providers of ‘2009.