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