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| Part 1 of "Abigail Remembers." Like the faint exquisite music of a dream, a numinous melody floats over a lulling medieval drone. The shimmering, pure notes against the sombre undercurrent of strings are reminiscent of Hildegard von Bingen's mystical chants. Paul is playing a c.1700 Baroque violin from the southern regions of Germany named Abigail. A differently mastered version of this will appear on GHOSTS and the preview ep, titled simply "Abigail Remembers." "My ghostly father/I me confess/first to God and then to you/That at a window--you know how--I stole a kiss of great sweetness."-Charles d'Orleans, c.1415 |
CD: GHOSTS and A Prelude to Ghosts
Label: available Oct 2001
Credits: (c)2000 written and performed by Paul Mercer. |
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| Darkly pensive, this early improvisation is the only surving recording to capture the brooding and kinetic style of Paul's early 1990's streetperforming era. An undulating melody swoops into elegant, Baroque-like 12-tone flourishes, and back again, captivating the waxing and waning crowds of subterranean urban streets. |
CD: the changelings (debut cd)
Label: middlesex records
Credits: (c)Switched at Birth music/written & performed by Paul Mercer |
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| recorded on an extremely dark 19th century Hungarian viola and an 1842 beauty by Nicholas Vuillaume to lull a princess to sleep. |
CD: amphibian by the changelings (c)1999
Label: middlesex records
Credits: used with permission of the changelings/switched at birth music |
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