babysue CD review and Spaceland show in Sept.

[merchy]

This review just came out from the online magazine babysue and LMNOP
web sites in the August 2009 review section:


Jeff Merchant - City Makes No Sound (Independently released CD, Pop)

A rather remarkable album from a rather remarkable young musician. Los
Angeles, California's Jeff Merchant makes music that sounds nothing
like what you might expect from a Los Angeles-based artist. City Makes
No Sound offers a lot to take in. Over the course of approximately an
hour, Merchant presents fifteen tracks. His songs are smooth and
pensive...free-flowing and hypnotic...substantial and thought-
provoking. And man oh man, what a voice. Jeff has a super smooth voice
and he never pushes himself beyond what each individual track calls
for. From the sound quality of this disc you would never know this is
an independently released CD. The sound quality is super smooth and
resilient. Lots of folks were involved in the recording of this album.
It features no less than 23 (!?!) guest vocalists and/or musicians.
But rather than being a messy overproduction (which can easily happen
when you involve so many people), these songs come across sounding
surprisingly open and clean. You can expect to hear a lot about Jeff
Merchant in the coming years. Wonderfully reflective tunes include
"Seeing Waterfalls," "Where's Phillip," "Eggshell," and "The End
Song." Recommended. (Rating out of 6: 5++)


http://www.lmnop.com/2009-August-LMNOP-Reviews.html#anchor33219


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The CD Release party at Spaceland on Sunday Sept. 13th has finally
been confirmed.

It will be a 3 way CD release show with Anny Celsi Band and Adam
Marsland's Chaos Band (so there's some overlapping going on with
musicians)

It should be a great show and probably free. I believe the Jeff
Merchant Band will be going on first.


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You can still buy a pre-release discount priced CD with free shipping
at the website: http://www.jeffmerchantmusic.com
*But only until August 18th