STEW SEZ (CD Review) + European Airplay + more

[merchy]

Stew, renowned founder of the band, The Negro Problem (and creator of
the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Passing Strange), recently
wrote an intricately compelling review of "City Makes No Sound" on his
"STEW SEZ" Blog. Check it out:

JEFF MERCHANT’S CITY MAKES NO SOUND

It starts with the artwork which is where all great records (used to)
start remark the colors the light the exact LA light the cacti
graffiti light and the hazy sun kissed underwaterness of a beachy
silverlake afternoon and the view of downtown LA and the way the light
alights upon the artist’s hair the album art starts by taking you
there and tells you this is a classic LA record at once choked by
mystic orange purple smog and beautifully breathing Jeff Merchant has
made a record that would have changed his life had he heard it when he
was 17 (which is the real reason why you do this, right?: to make
records that would have changed your life?)…but they weren’t making
records like this when he was 17 and it is also a quintessentially LA
record cuz it sounds like the floating blue bus of time’s humid
glowing lazy rhythms flowing from the desert to the sea this record
took it’s time to be and time to create cuz that’s the one thing
besides great Mexican food and sun-baked depression that LA always
seemed to have more than enough of: Time and this epic 72 degree dream
of an album has that baroque siesta “let’s take our time and do this
righteously wrong” background vocal orgy psychedelic kitchen stink
party kind of vibe where you can hear all the long hot days and
freeways it took to make and when I spy the list of luminaries on this
long player I can see all of them making their easy and uneasy ways
along the 10 and the 101 and the 405 on their windows rolled down way
to the session with all manner of weirdness strewn about the floor of
the passenger side of their cars this record puts me somewhere I know
well and its really more like an artful, sonic psychedelic documentary
than anything else so tune in to radio jeff merchant and visit an LA
that he both created and inhabits cuz there’s no differentiating
between the city (which makes no sound) and the inside of his head
(which does) and the song-music water-falling out of the headphones
and though I promised myself I would not dance on the slippery slope
of commenting on “standout tracks” because this is a good old
fashioned record in that its beauty is in it’s wholeness, however,
“eggshell” knocked me out but so did the whole record I mean it’s
Merchant’s LA we just get stuck in traffic in it and hopefully with a
copy of this cd in the changer. I cannot possibly list all the
incredible lyrics in here not to mention the LA references which are a
total joy to pick around for. Michael Rozon deserves more than a
mention for his above and beyond the call of duty co-producerial and
co-arranging flights of genius…

I could say a lot more but YOU NEED THIS RECORD should really be
enough.

http://stewsez.artlung.com/2010/05/03/jeff-merchants-city-makes-no-sound/


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European Airplay


Landslide, an Americana/Roots radio station in The Netherlands has
added "A Friend of Mine" to their playlist.

Playlist Landslide 590 – The Rootsy Mix (week 20)

Artist, song, album, label:
Keb’ Mo’, More than one way home, Live & Mo’, Yolabelle Int.
Luther Dickinson & the Sons of Mudboy, Angel Band, Onward & Upward,
Merless Records
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Better things, I learned the hard way,
Daptone
John Grant, Marz, Queen of Denmark, Bella Union
Shelby Lynne, Rains came, Tears Lies & Alibis, Everso Records
Si Kahn, Hutto, Courage, Strictly Country Records
Stone River Boys, Love on the dial, Love on the dial, Cow Island
Silje Hrafa, Too sacred, Two weeks two months two years, Edvins/Sonic
Rendezvous
Guthrie Kennard, Monkey wrench, Matchbox, Rango Records
Eryn Shewell, Already wrote the song, 4th & Broadway, Rewbie Music/
Hemifran
Jeff Merchant, A friend of mine, City makes no sound, Tropical mall
Music
Rudy & his Fascinators, Purple & Dumb, Rudymentor, Sonic Rendezvous
Nathalie Merchant, Adventures of Isabel, Leave your sleep, Nonesuch
Larkin Poe, Shadows of ourselves, Spring, Edvins Records
Texas Tornados, Who’s to blame senorita, Esta bueno, Bismeaux Records

http://www.dutchrootsradio.com/landslide.htm


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Online Airplay + Podcasts


"Setting Sun" played on SongPlanet.com - DJ Sue Set
http://www.songplanet.com/listeners/playlistsue.html

WSPR SongPlanet Radio features the best Indie music
http://www.songplanet.com


"Disturbance Call" can be heard in a podcast of The Friday Forum (By
Recharged Radio*)
http://thefridayforum.blogspot.com/2010/05/070510-friday-forum-new-subs-show.html

To download via iTunes, go to this link and select the 5/07/10
podcast:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-friday-forum/id303016296

*Recharged Radio is based in London and promotes independent music.
http://www.rechargedradio.com


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KCSN Pledge Drive Update

Although the springtime membership drive is now over, you can still
donate to the station
and for a $75 pledge get Jeff Merchant's "City Makes No Sound" CD
https://www.kcsn.org/donate.html

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