Curlew / Mercury
Album: Mercury   Collection:General
Artist:Curlew   Added:Oct 2003
Label:Cuneiform Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2004-03-01 Pull Date: 2004-05-03
Week Ending: May 2 Apr 11 Apr 4 Mar 14 Mar 7
Airplays: 1 2 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 13, 2010: lost and found
Late Date/ there Is
4. Apr 06, 2004: A Shade of Blue
Song of New
2. Apr 26, 2004: Fly By Night
Song of New
5. Mar 29, 2004: Fly By Night
Song of New
3. Apr 07, 2004: Brownian Motion
Leaven
6. Mar 08, 2004: The Digital/Analog War
Funny Money

Album Review
Mandy Khoshnevisan
Reviewed 2004-02-23
Like it says on the front, old school prog rock. All instrumental; sax, bass, guitar, electric organ, occasional piano. Sound is wild and jazzy and tense, mostly; few chords are resolved, and everyone’s got plenty of energy. Middle of the tracks often involve everyone soloing at once.

*1. *(3:34) starts right in crazy fast, then hits a groove; fast little melodic motif—lots of elec. organ and crazy sax
*2. *(6:22) strutting tempo drum & bass groove, guitar, sax, bit more disciplined and jazzy—at first
3. (4:03) lone distorted guitar for 30 sec, then solid midtempo groove; guitar heavy
4. (3:07) fast and burbly, elec organ, like something bad might happen to Super Mario
*5. *(9:02) halting haunting elec. intro; melodic, slow, sparser, changes a lot; kinda creepy
*6. *(4:08) smoky midtempo groove, steady winding melody. Slows; then piano solo.
*7. *(3:05) fast/midtempo, jaunty melody
8. (3:36) frantic elec. guitar. Kind of a reprise of track 1; same motif, but sounds later; with acoustic piano cascading in.
*9. *(7:10) sitar-sounding guitar (?), tranquil acoustic. Rest of band comes in with melody; even-tempered triumph. Goes back quiet at end.
—reviewed by mandy (la chanteuse)

Track Listing
1. Still   5. Late Date/ there Is
2. Funny Money   6. Ludlow
3. Leaven   7. Small Red Dance
4. Call   8. Still Still
  9. Song of New