STEPHANIE REARICK: The Long Picnic

Stephanie Rearick

The Long Picnic

© 2001 Stephanie Rearick (634479129988)

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darkly hypnotic piano pop with a delightully bent edge.

tracks

1 Folk Tune
2 Not Another Minute
3 Elegy
4 Wading
5 Boating
6 The Man Who Stole Tomorrow
7 Morpha Too
8 Bagatelle
9 The Long Picnic
10 Cosmic

notes

Stephanie Rearick is the pianist, main songwriter/singer/trumpeter, etc. for the Madison, WI circus rock spectacle The Coma Savants (formerly Your Mom SRO).

Rearick also plays solo, a different matter entirely.

Subtle and sensitive, The Long Picnic showcases more of Rearick's playing, including a few instrumental piano compositons. Dissonance and unusual harmonies, sometimes in layered vocal tracks, create new and interesting soundscapes. Literate lyrics are a bonus.

The Long Picnic was recorded in Madison and Chicago using just acoustic piano and vocals to create a 10-song journey that is by turns playful, disturbing, and soothing.

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"encompassing a panoply of pop, jazz, and, most notably, classical influences... Rearick's album The Long Picnic nicely captures her eclectic nature and formidable piano work." -- The Onion

"This Madison singer-songwriter has sharper instrumental skills than most... she's not afraid to shut up and play an instrumental. Her writing also displays a grim loopiness she'd do well to cultivate, and on 'Not Another Minute' she sounds like the love chiled of Tori Amos and Robyn Hitchcock." -- Chicago Reader

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  • Something truly different
    author: Katie Taylor

    This is the real deal: a songwriter and performer who is totally unconcerned about what other people are doing. This CD is a dreamy delight from beginning to end. "Not Another Minute" is a masterpiece with its itchy piano line and dense harmonies (poor grandma!) and the cover of "Morpha Too" so improves on the original that it was almost a disappointment to look up the old Big Star album and listen to it again. Stephanie Rearick has a subtlety of delivery both in vocal and piano work that adds immeasurably to all she does. Each listening brings out things I missed the previous time around, which in my opine is the sign of a good songwriter. I will definitely be keeping an eye open for Stephanie Rearick's next CD.

  • A piano-based feast of earnest and energetic songs.
    author: James E. Guyette

    Stephanie Rearick's The Long Picnic, presents a piano-based feast of earnest and energetic songs. And Rearick's ivory-tickling is seriously augmented by a collection catchy and unique lyrics. "Not Another Minute" (2) is a maddenly memorable ditty about a elderly grandmother unable to eat, and the title track (9) is taken from a poem by Russell Edson. "Elegy" (3) and "Wading" (4) are other standouts. -- James E. Guyette, "When The Roses Bloom Again," hosted by Cuz'n Dave Wilson, WRUW-FM/91.1, Cleveland (www.wruw.org).

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