Nate mercereau

APPEARING: MANHATTAN MARATHON @ NUBLU

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2023

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

TAKE TWO WITH NATE MERCEREAU & FRIENDS PERFORMING PHAROAH SANDERS' ‘ELEVATION’ @ PUBLIC RECORDS, BROOKLYN

Listening to Nate Mercereau's music feels like staring down a kaleidoscope. The songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist surveys the fractured borders between sounds, and celebrates the beautiful moments where they collide. When he’s not making his own music, he’s looking at the world of pop through his prismatic perspective—he’s produced or played on records by Leon Bridges, Jay-Z, Shawn Mendes, Lizzo, The Weeknd and more. Moreover, Mercereau has learned that no matter what sounds he’s working with he needs to lean in close, to focus on the details. His new album, SUNDAYS, embodies that as he dives headlong into a mystical, rich vein of sonic worlds, each song more intricate and intimate than the last.

SUNDAYS developed out of what Mercereau calls “spontaneous composition”—weekly delves into his psyche via live-streamed performance. The sets were built in fluid collaboration with a series of percussive improvisations dreamt up by Carlos Niño, a forward-thinking producer, instrumentalist, and staple of L.A.’s experimental scene. Due to its open beginnings, SUNDAYS is both free of form and packed with complexity—at any given moment it can feel airy, dusty, serene, or fiercely passionate.

While Mercereau continues to grow the expanse of what he can do, the real excitement comes from where he might go next. “Instead of trying on what's already out there, I feel like I'm trying on things that don't exist,” he says. In that way, SUNDAYS is a springboard to other worlds.