Excellent Traveler (LP)
Nate Mercereau
Amoeba Review
Evocative and imaginative, Nate Mercereau created Excellent Traveler as a sort of sonic travelogue. "Environments" are created mainly through guitar and samples — an impressive feat when you consider how immersive, textured, and atmospheric these pieces are. Ambient, New Age, psych, rock, and jazz combine to create extraordinarily beautiful soundscapes, summoned via samples from places like Manhattan, Amsterdam, and Topanga, and transmogrified into wondrous, near-mystical contexts. Excellent Traveler is entrancing, impressive, and enchanting.
Track Listing
Disc 1 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
For the Highest Quality Listener Testing the Limits
|
Nate Mercereau | 06:49 |
2.
Sound Within Sound
|
Nate Mercereau | 03:57 |
3.
Surfing, in Manhattan
|
Nate Mercereau | 04:28 |
4.
Excellent Traveler Theme
|
Nate Mercereau | 04:56 |
5.
Infinite Places of Possibility / Horse
|
Nate Mercereau | 06:15 |
6.
Continually Cresting
|
Nate Mercereau | 06:00 |
7.
I Am in the Fire Place
|
Nate Mercereau | 02:22 |
8.
Worlds Beyond (Into It)
|
Nate Mercereau | 04:09 |
9.
Worlds Upon Worlds
|
Nate Mercereau | 03:18 |
10.
Watershed, in Oakland
|
Nate Mercereau | 03:44 |
11.
Ears as Eyes (Benton, Tujunga, Mayer)
|
Nate Mercereau | 04:12 |
12.
Immersive Realization Landscape
|
Nate Mercereau | 08:37 |
13.
From One Place to Another
|
Nate Mercereau | 04:04 |
14.
Juniper's Theme
|
Nate Mercereau | 02:23 |
15.
Djinn'
|
Nate Mercereau | 07:05 |
16.
Sky Spine Curving Into the Horizon
|
Nate Mercereau | 08:13 |
17.
Awayness
|
Nate Mercereau | 05:28 |