Mercurio is Marcelo's latest collection of songs. It is a fascinating and intriguing display of the artist's ever-growing musical vocabulary, recorded and produced at his home studio in Cardiff, CA between 2004 and 2007. In Mercurio, Marcelo plays all the instruments and sings all the vocals, focusing on creating a work that is deeply personal and singular, with lyrics that deal with the socio-political issues of today, family bonds and home, the omnipotent and the mangled stuff of the psyche. These are raw, emotive songs, some in English, some in Spanish, some in Gibberish. The music is dense and very colorful, rich with samples and textures interacting with an array of acoustic and electric instruments, moving in and out of time signatures in an improvisational fashion. The result is a sort of organized, microtonal, twisted and filtered soulful brew, concocted at the crossroads of experimental and pop.