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Category: Music
Summer in Winter - Titles :
01. Summer in the Wintertime
02. Forever, Never and Ever
03. 5 Legs
04. Melancolicoli Hue
05. A Zone
06. Rapid Breath
07. In the Tower
08. Passing Comets
09. Zen
10. Monday Morning 2008
11. At the Senator's Ball
12. Frolicking Nuns
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Recorded/Produced at TITICACAMAN Studios (2008)
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Blocks of centuries frozen, clowns in smoky bars, a skinny kid and cantankerous Chuck at the senator's ball, green bears on soda cans and frolicking nuns of a new convent, such is the lyric stream in Marcelo's new album titled Summer in Winter, 12 songs about a feverish, blundering time, full of anticipation and expectations. Produced and recorded at his home studio between October and December of 2008, at the peak of the USA presidential elections, Summer in Winter picks up where Vertigo at Lunchtime (produced earlier in 2008) left off. The feel again points up, the mood is warm, the songs are short, rhythmic, melodious and lyrically vibrant. As common to Marcelo's production approach, he sings all the vocal parts and plays all the instruments, referencing years of experimenting with sound, soul, rock, ambient, crackling vinyl.... Summer in Winter is filled with creative ideas and entrancing sounds, a very original music that reaches out with positive vibes and multi-cultural painterly jangle.
"Like the ghost of 'Scary Monsters' era Bowie returning to haunt the aether following an extended stay in a parallel dimension."
David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets) |
Vertigo at Lunchtime - Titles :
01. Vertigo at Lunchtime
02. Cacti Party
03. For My School
04. Manicomio Que Comio
05. Crow Squawk
06. Comunistas
07. Bone in the Meal
08. 20 Doses
09. En la Plaza
10. Homeless Things
11. Globo Globito
12. Why
13. Elvis Pelvis
14. The Sonar Wonder
15. Good Good
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Recorded/Produced at TITICACAMAN Studios (2008)
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"Marcelo Radulovich is an auteur. On his latest album Vertigo at Lunchtime, and like it's very immediate predecessor Mercurio, all the sounds, words, ideas, songs, artwork and production come from the same source. Mercurio and Vertigo feel connected in a fraternal way, perhaps Mercurio represents evening into night and Vertigo at Lunchtime springs into life at dawn and takes us through the daylight hours. The opening track (and album title) is every inch the driving song with the listener emerging into a bright new morning full of twisting possibilities. ( "everything is A Ok cos' something good always turns up"). The mood is upbeat, positive, the melodies are delirious and catchy but we are being taken on this jaunt with an eye on the undertow, the underground tributaries where a good time can be thoughtful, introspective and surreal.We are carried along on groves (waves on a beat) and the stories and incantations come through in Spanish and English, an international music full of emotional dictation and subtle observation that provides a chronicle of life and it's layers. We experience school thoughts (a nostalgia), food, a life lived by the sea by the desert by the city in the wilderness..."Manicomio Que Comio" has a driving metallic rhythm and a melody line that is whistling catchy. Marcelo's vocal intones in Spanish the virtues of Bob Dylan and Hank Williams. We are led into private fascinations during "Why" the surreal science of Elvis Presley myth in "Elvis Pelvis".We visit some twisting roads where the automobile must slow down and enter the shade, "Globo Globito" and "En le Plaza" give us a howl in a study of vocal harmonies, it's a meditation and turns the spell into Fall colors. Before long we are back on to the clear nursery rhymes of Replacement, chimes sing and the music rolls along wave after wave, a bouncing tripping groove laden melting pot of styles and loving rhythms.I want to mention the burlesque, the cheerleaders chant in "for my school", a soaring vocal performance that gives each song it's lofty elevation. How about peddling, a virulent vaccine, diamond overalls, llolipop crack and 20 doses of that.The album resists the distant lamplights itchy glow as the day wanes!.I believe this album is so absurdly accessible, so humbly articulate, so ridiculously moving and catchy, it has the stature of a Pynchon novel or the finest Vonnegut".
—Neil Carlill 2008 |
Mercurio - Titles :
01. Turn On The Phone
02. Purge It from the World
03. Paris Ampheta
04. For Real
05. How It Goes
06. Evolution
07. Trying to Convince Me
08. Swastikas
09. Keep the Watch
10. Tartamudo
11. A Territorial Invasion
12. Sate Sane
13. Compra Siembra
14. In Case I Forgot to Mention
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Recorded/Produced at TITICACAMAN Studios (2007)
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Mercurio is a fascinating and intriguing display of the artist's ever-growing musical vocabulary, recorded and produced at his home studio in Cardiff, CA between 2004 and 2007. In Mercurio, Marcelo plays all the instruments and sings all the vocals, focusing on creating a work that is deeply personal and singular, with lyrics that deal with the socio-political issues of today, family bonds and home, the omnipotent and the mangled stuff of the psyche. These are raw, emotive songs, some in English, some in Spanish, some in Gibberish. The music is dense and very colorful, rich with samples and textures interacting with an array of acoustic and electric instruments, moving in and out of time signatures in an improvisational fashion. The result is a sort of organized, microtonal, twisted and filtered soulful brew, concocted at the crossroads of experimental and pop.
ExtraSpecialGood Review:
Although highbrow electro-acoustic experimentation isn't a steady staple of my musical diet, Mercurio will probably have me second-guessing every time I pass over a Robert Fripp album. Clever, beguiling and compulsively listenable, Radulovich crafts a sonic playground atop the avant-garde pavement laid by Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa and Faust. His playful, Dada-inspired wordplay isn't an entirely new concept, but the way it's contorted into foreign, glitchy noises with the use of computer technology suits the inventiveness of his soundscapes perfectly. If you're looking for traditional pop songs, go elsewhere. If you're looking for something fresh and deeply inspiring, Mercurio will be your muse. MS/marceloradulovich
—Todd Kroviak (San Diego CityBeat - 3/2008)
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