Bob Merrigan
Brain Cells
© 2006 Bob Merrigan (783707269207)
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Bob Merrigan has mined a deep seam of creativity with this very personal, raw, beautiful, and alarming album filled with all his original works.
tracks
- 1 Brain Cells
- 2 30 Days
- 3 White Shadow
- 4 Being Present
- 5 My House Is Your House
- 6 Uke 532
- 7 No Heavan Or Hell
- 8 Butte Montana
- 9 My Best Friend
- 10 Happy Song
- 11 Central Park
- 12 Bomb Under Your Baby's Cradle
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Martin Simpson, Winner of the BBC Radio Folk Awards for best musician of the year in 2002 and 2004 and Best Album of the Year in 2002: "Bob Merrigan has mined a deep seam of creativity on this record. His playing is fascinating but once beautiful and alarming. A really thoroughly interesting project."
"Mission To Matrimony", a new film supporting gay marriages, to be released soon at many film festivals. This film features some of Bob Merrigan's music.
Bernd Haussmann " Bobs songs are sad, romantic, raw , sophisticated , sweet, and beautiful but most of all they are deeply personal and profoundly present ".
" I believe that good music is a testimony of an intimate moment. It
comes from a deep honest place whether it be love or pain, and originates from visiting an unbeaten path. This type of music attempts to encapsulate the listener, cutting through his or her barriers enabling them to also have private experience with themselves. This personal
conversation continues to vanish in the world of music."
BOB MERRIGAN
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Some very cool music here
author: DavidOK, about Brain Cells...somebody smart once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Right anytime, and more than right when it's a CD like Brain Cells, but what the hell, I'll do my best. Bob Merrigan's a guy who paints with sound in much the way Deb, his wife and partner, paints with colors and sculpts with...actually, with just about anything she takes a fancy to using in creating her unique and striking artwork. (Visit Bob's Web site and you'll see what I mean.) And Bob's like that, too. He's one of those people who finds musical sounds in all sorts of places. First, you need to understand that Brain Cells isn't "folk" or "rock" or "contemporary acoustic" or any of that. In fact, try to forget all that stuff...this is simply sonic art that exists to surprise you and start you thinking. From the wailing horn on the title track to the unsettling message of "Bomb...", Bob's lyrical and very personal music will weave itself into your night thoughts, remind you of a few old friends you haven't seen in a while, and make you smile unexpectedly in inappropriate situations. Bob is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, but he's far more interested in assembling and presenting sonic canvases than he is in showing you his chops. He's capable of some very fine playing (check out "Uke 532," --yeah, that's what it is, a ukulele) but the chops are beside the point. The world is full of good players, but there's a definite shortage of people who can get you humming a simple, affectionate and obviously deeply felt love song like Bob's "My Best Friend." Bob is a fine singer, too, as "Being Present" so nicely demonstrates, but his voice isn't why that song will keep popping into your head at the damnedest moments. Bob wrote all the songs on this CD, sings them all, and presents them with compact, tasteful instrumental accompaniments that fit each one just about perfectly. They're all honest, with no fluff. Some of them are playful, some are touching, and some will bother the hell of you. And those are things that music is supposed to do. So stop making me dance about architecture, okay? Go listen to Bob's CD.
Brilliant, unique, heart breaking, poignant.
author: Deborah BohnertBrilliant, unique, heart breaking, poignant. Songs about love and life that reach deeply into the soul. Always entertaining, this CD is in a class of his own