Mudville (EP)

Urban Ambience Journal, 2001
Marilyn Carino and Benjamin Rubin... make intelligent electronica that ranges from chilling and eerie to lamentful and moving.

Product Description
Some have pigeonholed Mudville’s timeless yet unmistakably forward music as a straight shot of Portishead-like downtempo electronica. But Mudville contorts that well-worn archetype into a stirring and soulful sonic brew, evoking Curtis Mayfield’s weighty grooves, P.J. Harvey’s avant-blues passion, Jeff Buckley’s soaring, jazzy laments and the futurist soundscapes of Dan the Automator. Noted multi-instrumentalist/producer Benjamin Rubin crafts Mudville’s musical universe with truly iconoclastic beats, found sounds and live instruments that spotlight songwriter/vocalist Marilyn Carino’s keen prose and dusky wail. Her strange, fearless voice is muse for Rubin’s unsettling yet compelling blend of churning beats and lush symphonic arrangements. The results are impassioned, humanistic inner monologues that paint gripping and unsentimental pictures of love, loss and the precarious state of our injured society.

Mudville (EP)

Mudville (EP),Mudville,Slurry Records,Mingus meets Portishead: a stirring and soulful sonic brew combining Curtis Mayfield’s weighty grooves, P.J. Harvey’s avant-blues passion, Jeff Buckley’s soaring, jazzy laments and the futurist soundscapes of Dan the Automator.

Average customer rating: Somber Joy of Mudville Somber Joy of Mudville

Mudville (EP) Manufacturer: Slurry Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Dance & DJ | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rap & Hip-Hop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Glory Of Man Is Not In Vogue ASIN: B00007M9ET Release Date: 2002-11-15

Tracks:

1. Private Plane
2. Waterbird
3. Nothing Gets You Going
4. High Rise

Album Description

Some have pigeonholed Mudville's timeless yet unmistakably forward music as a straight shot of Portishead-like downtempo electronica. But Mudville contorts that well-worn archetype into a stirring and soulful sonic brew, evoking Curtis Mayfield's weighty grooves, P.J. Harvey's avant-blues passion, Jeff Buckley's soaring, jazzy laments and the futurist soundscapes of Dan the Automator. Noted multi-instrumentalist/producer Benjamin Rubin crafts Mudville's musical universe with truly iconoclastic beats, found sounds and live instruments that spotlight songwriter/vocalist Marilyn Carino's keen prose and dusky wail. Her strange, fearless voice is muse for Rubin's unsettling yet compelling blend of churning beats and lush symphonic arrangements. The results are impassioned, humanistic inner monologues that paint gripping and unsentimental pictures of love, loss and the precarious state of our injured society.

Customer Reviews:

Somber Joy of Mudville.......2003-08-11

Mudville is ultra modern yet very soulful. It is electronic music that packs the organic punch of the best blues and jazz. These songs groove along and lull you like still water with a fierce undertow, found in the moving, surprisingly poetic lyrics by Marilyn Carino, who also possesses a crazy voice with the gutsiness of a rock singer but with the sweet subtlety of a jazz balladeer. The beats and arrangements are like nothing I've heard before, kind of trip-hop with a brain and cojones, but it would be difficult to compare Mudville to anything else out there. It's definitely head music and I like it more the more I listen.

Somber Joy of Mudville.......2003-08-11

Mudville's music is ultra modern yet very soulful. It is electronic music that packs the organic punch of the best blues and jazz. These songs groove along and lull you like still water with a fierce undertow, found in the moving, surprisingly poetic lyrics of Marilyn Carino, who also possesses a crazy voice with the gutsiness of a rock singer but with the sweet subtlety of a jazz balladeer. The beats and arrangements are like nothing I've heard before, kind of trip-hop with a brain and cojones, but it would be difficult to compare Mudville to anything else out there. It's definitely deep head music and I like it more the more I listen.

Average customer rating: The Glory of Man in one woman's voice Muscular just what I needed Glorious Mudville Get this CD, there's nothing like it

The Glory Of Man Is Not In Vogue Mudville Manufacturer: Slurry Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mudville (EP) Moonraker Supernature Rather Ripped The Reminder ASIN: B00014DGOW Release Date: 2003-12-02

Tracks:

1. The Hero Of The World
2. Blown
3. Stoned
4. Perfect
5. Othello
6. Poets on Parade
7. In Orbit
8. Pray
9. Surfer Girls
10. Sunshine Is On Me

Product Description

1. The Hero Of The World
2. Blown
3. Stoned
4. Perfect
5. Othello
6. Poets On Parade
7. In Orbit
8. Pray
9. Surfer Girls
10. Sunshine Is On Me

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

The Glory of Man in one woman's voice.......2006-03-20

Mudville ventures into many musical worlds on this CD, they visit rock, jazz, hip-hop, soundscape electronica, blues and soul and the snow-globe souvenir they bring back is from nowhere but their own polyglot island. The first track, "The Hero of the World", sounds like Al Green's diabolical twin, especially as sung with the provocative voice of Marilyn Carino. Carino is the glue here, her interpretations are earnest and striking (kind of like a more absurdist Fiona Apple) and bring a haunting, but substantial depth to the wide-ranging material. My favorites are the aforementioned "Hero", the funky, sexy "Blown" and the ever-unfolding "Pray" (a Bollywood-style remix of this on their website blew me away!). The songs are cool and animated and they linger, working beautifully as an "album" played beginning to end. But it's the voice that grabs you and resonates, it aches and breathes angelic and devilish all at once.

Muscular.......2005-02-25

I really like this music. I'm usually more about hip-hop but I'm really getting into this girl's words! "Poets on Parade" doesn't know it but is a righteous rap. "The Hero of the World" made me listen and sway. Producer Ben Rubin puts it all in a lovely world. I'd like to hear "Blown" remixed with a bit more drive, it could be even sexier. The girl Marilyn Carino sings like the open ocean - check out "Pray" and try not to shiver.

just what I needed.......2004-09-27

The reviewer who described Mudville as "creaminess and grit" had it cold. The songs on this CD are both lyrically beautiful and sonically intriguing, more so with repeated listens. There's really nothing like it. Trip-hoppers will surely relate, but this ain't no fluffy, boring-ass trip-hop. My favorite track is "Othello", a cautionary tale with a dark, syncopated groove. Mudville is intimate, sultry and grown-up, this CD was obviously made by people with a lot of experience playing actual music on real instruments. Check it out.

Glorious Mudville.......2004-06-04

Like some exotic spa bath, "The Glory of Man..." is a stimulating mix of creaminess and grit. Mudville have managed to create a vibe that pulses and throbs with real vitality and a whole lotta sweet soul, thanks to the absolutely sensuous, yet absolutely butch sounds emanating from singer Marilyn Carino. The songs here are full of life. While lyrically a bit impressionistic, they're all about hope and lust and color and a slap in the face to apathy. The sound is a clever mix of samples and live tracks, and the excellence of the musicianship and use of instruments such as standup bass, trumpet and piano makes it sound like a jazz record from some funky future. I was desperately looking for something different and genuinely GOOD. "The Glory of Man..." really turned me on.

Get this CD, there's nothing like it.......2004-05-14

Like all the best music, Mudville takes several listens to really be appreciated. It's definitely downtempo, and wouldn't sound out of place next to a trip-hop band, but it's way more intense and interesting to experience. Its electronic, its jazz and its blues and Marilyn Carino's voice swoops over and into you - great stuff.

Average customer rating: Rock On!

No Joy In Mudville ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005M1WT Release Date: 2001-07-03

Tracks:

1. 10,000 More Times
2. Local Hero
3. Dawn of The Dead
4. Open Your Piehole
5. Single Hound
6. Marstown
7. Close Your Eyes
8. Andrew
9. Looking For A Witness
10. Mica
11. Orson Welles
12. Obits & Pornos

Album Description

NO JOY IN MUDVILLE still slams hard, but with a newfound grace and beauty not nearly as evident on HUM MACHINE's previous efforts. The added emphasis on melodic songwriting makes NO JOY IN MUDVILLE the most accessible effort yet from a band already consistently acclaimed for its commercial sensibilities.  

Co-produced by the band and Wendy Schneider at Smart Studios in Madison, NO JOY IN MUDVILLE was mixed by Mike Zirkel (Garbage, Everclear, HBO's “Reverb”) and engineered by Mark Haines (Son Volt, Freedy Johnston, Hey Mercedes). Its title was borrowed from the classic American poem, “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, because its essence has been a recurring theme that came into play again while HUM MACHINE worked on the new album. 

“Casey is what everybody hates about themselves,” says guitarist Eric Geving, HUM MACHINE's principal songwriter. “That's why there's no joy there. NO JOY IN MUDVILLE is about movies and cars, love and death, porno films and drinking, and people you love to hate and hate to love. The stores are all little vignettes of a passing -- whatever that might be -- with no remorse and no regrets.” 

Customer Reviews:

Rock On!.......2003-10-25

Sizzling lyrics and music that hook you and leave you wanting more. Great sound!

Average customer rating:

Joy in Mudville Wormburner Manufacturer: Wormburner ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAAG70 Release Date: 2004-01-20

Tracks:

1. Skinny Leather Tie
2. Muscle Car
3. Sunday Song
4. Hero's Welcome
5. Turndaround

Average customer rating:

Joy in Mudville Manufacturer: Sound Pile ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAD7L2 Release Date: 2004-01-20

Average customer rating:

The Glory of Man Is Not in Vogue Mudville Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000IAF9 Release Date: 2000-03-18

Tracks:

1. 2 Dollar Moerton
2. 3 Years And 7 Days
3. Joseph Kris
4. All In Time
5. Your Light
6. Washington
7. Old River Fish
8. Rise Above
9. Ahimsa-Except
10. Spiral
11. Wasted Days

Average customer rating:

Portico The Mudville Project Manufacturer: The Mudville Project ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAF6V6 Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

1. Tea
2. Kinda Man
3. Rice Check
4. Home Again
5. Long Road
6. Twice
7. Perfect Girl
8. No Regrets
9. Love Song
10. Hector the Protector

Average customer rating:

Happy Hour [RARE] Mudville Nine ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000UASNUE

Product Description

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