Playlist:
1) 01 Matter Scatter
2) 02 Mandys Song
No Track
About Mercurial
Mercurial formed under the most other-worldy of circumstances...playing life's game of chance like they play their powerful and dynamic blend of music...without thinking twice. Drummer/frontman August Emile Noll had left his southern home in Alabama for the California coast in late 2004. Just two months later, after tireless daily posting and reposting of his ad looking for likeminded music men on a website called craigslist, he was flying to LA to jam with a group of young men who would eventually come to be known as Mercurial.
With a jaw dropping and truly wild style and a funky pocket that causes people to dance, guitarist Josh Roberts (aka Funky J) brings to the band the exact blend of raw enthusiam and formal expertise needed for such an ambitious outfit. Laying the groove down fat is bassist ryan levine, who is as they say "a natural". With such musical instinct and creativity that both aug and josh knew he belonged in the group within the first 5 minutes of jamming. This stringed duo is met at the drum kit by a true and ferocius talent, The Nasty One, Aug, who's drumparts can be either deeply pocketed or simply unplayable by anyone else, leaving those who hear them with a slight grin and a shake of the head, all while he sings to the crowd.
But this group of young men has some truely ambitious goals in mind for their futures. They are not content with the current emptiness of the pop scene, nor the lacklustre fashion of here today, gone tomorrow fad bands. They seek to develop a style thats always from the heart, stirring a Mercurial jumbo of styles like punk, reggae, funk, hip hop, fusion, blues or even heavy riffs with techno, blending all these elements in afore-unseen ways. But more grandiose even, to mix all of these styles with the heart and core of American musical arts forms....jazz. They are well aware of the mountain they have chosen to climb, and look at it without fear. "We see it as perfectly natural to have jazz, even hardcore modal and avant garde sects, combine with good songwriting that anyone can relate to". The guys dont seem to mind much that the result of this kind of tampering could form a very new and revolutionary marriage of the accessible and the experimental, thus both touching hearts and turning on minds. "to do it, it just takes a lot of will and commitment".
It is in this seriousness towards their craft where their true strenghth lies...they know that people will respond to songwriting that touches their hearts, and on the other side, instrumental artistry that touches the soul...in this way, they are very much related to bands of the past like The Police, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, and the Dave Matthews Band, though their sound is nothing like any of them. in practice, the groups sound harkens more to the funky, groove infested vibe of epic bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 311, Incubus, and Sublime. Yet it is ever changing and evolving...making the band Mercurial.
With a jaw dropping and truly wild style and a funky pocket that causes people to dance, guitarist Josh Roberts (aka Funky J) brings to the band the exact blend of raw enthusiam and formal expertise needed for such an ambitious outfit. Laying the groove down fat is bassist ryan levine, who is as they say "a natural". With such musical instinct and creativity that both aug and josh knew he belonged in the group within the first 5 minutes of jamming. This stringed duo is met at the drum kit by a true and ferocius talent, The Nasty One, Aug, who's drumparts can be either deeply pocketed or simply unplayable by anyone else, leaving those who hear them with a slight grin and a shake of the head, all while he sings to the crowd.
But this group of young men has some truely ambitious goals in mind for their futures. They are not content with the current emptiness of the pop scene, nor the lacklustre fashion of here today, gone tomorrow fad bands. They seek to develop a style thats always from the heart, stirring a Mercurial jumbo of styles like punk, reggae, funk, hip hop, fusion, blues or even heavy riffs with techno, blending all these elements in afore-unseen ways. But more grandiose even, to mix all of these styles with the heart and core of American musical arts forms....jazz. They are well aware of the mountain they have chosen to climb, and look at it without fear. "We see it as perfectly natural to have jazz, even hardcore modal and avant garde sects, combine with good songwriting that anyone can relate to". The guys dont seem to mind much that the result of this kind of tampering could form a very new and revolutionary marriage of the accessible and the experimental, thus both touching hearts and turning on minds. "to do it, it just takes a lot of will and commitment".
It is in this seriousness towards their craft where their true strenghth lies...they know that people will respond to songwriting that touches their hearts, and on the other side, instrumental artistry that touches the soul...in this way, they are very much related to bands of the past like The Police, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, and the Dave Matthews Band, though their sound is nothing like any of them. in practice, the groups sound harkens more to the funky, groove infested vibe of epic bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 311, Incubus, and Sublime. Yet it is ever changing and evolving...making the band Mercurial.
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Mercurial at a Glance
- Name: Mercurial
- Genre: Rock
- Location: , California
