Mercury Quartet - Mercury Acoustic

Mercury Acoustic

Mercury Quartet

Available Formats No. of Tracks   Price Buy
CD Album 14 tracks £10.00
Download Album (mp3) 16 tracks £7.99
Download Album (flac) 16 tracks £7.99
Download individual tracks N/A from £0.79

Mercury Quartet - Mercury Acoustic

The first album from the Mercury Quartet is a set of nine breathtaking ‘live compositions’. Moving from searing, brutal noise to elegant lyricism with startling agility, the group improvisations of these four musciains are utterly unique. The broad range of influences that can be traced in their music give the album a fantastic breadth of mood and energy but do not take it into the realms of messy eclecticism. Traces of twentieth century masters such as Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Messiaen, and Ligeti are set intelligently against a sense of freedom and musical dialogue inherited from improvisers such as Cecil Taylor Ornette Coleman, and Evan Parker. The repertoire the Mercury Quartet have grown up on and played every day in their careers as performing musicians has informed their rich vocabulary, and they sing out a music that points a very positive direction for contemporary music in the next decade.

PRAISE FOR THE MERCURY QUARTET:

'...surely the most lively and talented group of young musicians in the UK...'
Julian Anderson, August 2010

'... they perform with virtuosity and commitment...
George Benjamin, March 2009

'...their musicality and energy is remarkable…’...'
Rolf Hind, August 2010

Tracklisting

CD Album (NONCLSS009)
  1. Mercury Quartet - Tuning
  2. Mercury Quartet - EasternPromise
  3. Mercury Quartet - Hammercan
  4. Mercury Quartet - Interlude I
  5. Mercury Quartet - Unprotected
  6. Mercury Quartet - Coda
  7. Mercury Quartet - Interlude II
  8. Mercury Quartet - 35673
  9. Mercury Quartet - Last Orders
  10. Mercury Quartet - Monsieur Morphée Remix (Monsieur Morphée)
  11. Mercury Quartet - Gabriel Prokofiev Scratchy Remix (Gabriel Prokofiev)
  12. Mercury Quartet - Heavy Deviance Unprotected Sax Remix (Heavy Deviance)
  13. Mercury Quartet - Yesking Remix (Yesking)
  14. Mercury Quartet - Ruaidhri Mosaic Manifesto Remix (Ruaidhri Mosaic)
Download Album (NONCLSS009)
  1. Mercury Quartet - Tuning
  2. Mercury Quartet - EasternPromise
  3. Mercury Quartet - Hammercan
  4. Mercury Quartet - Interlude I
  5. Mercury Quartet - Unprotected
  6. Mercury Quartet - Coda
  7. Mercury Quartet - Interlude II
  8. Mercury Quartet - 35673
  9. Mercury Quartet - Last Orders
  10. Mercury Quartet - Monsieur Morphée Remix (Monsieur Morphée)
  11. Mercury Quartet - Gabriel Prokofiev Scratchy Remix (Gabriel Prokofiev)
  12. Mercury Quartet - Heavy Deviance Unprotected Sax Remix (Heavy Deviance)
  13. Mercury Quartet - Yesking Remix (Yesking)
  14. Mercury Quartet - Ruaidhri Mosaic Manifesto Remix (Ruaidhri Mosaic)
  15. Mercury Quartet - Medasyn Semyon Reflecting Remix (Medasyn)
  16. Mercury Quartet - Paul Conboy Remix (Paul Conboy)