New York, NY (Top40 Charts / Lee Feldman Official Website) After a six year hiatus, Brooklyn singer-songwriter-pianist Lee Feldman returns with 'Album No. 4: Trying to Put the Things Together that Never Been Together Before' [to be released May 1st] - a masterpiece of lyrical precision and extraordinary musical depth, with arrangements that effortlessly span Randy Newman-style art song, Mose Allison-inflected jazz and Brill Building pop. The Beatles, Gershwin and Nilsson are also major influences on Lee.
Taking a
Hi-Fi approach, Lee produced and arranged the album, inviting top-tier musicians to contribute their genius, including longtime bandmates bassist Byron Isaacs (Levon Helm, Ollabelle) & drummer Bill Dobrow (Jesse Harris, Sean Lennon). Grammy-winning engineer Jay Newland (Norah Jones) mixed and audio legend Greg Calbi mastered.
Guests include Ed Haber (Linda Thompson),
Maxim Moston (Antony & the Johnsons),
Glenn Patscha (Sheryl Crow),Michael Leonhart(Steely Dan), Mauro Refosco (Radiohead), and Maucha Adnet (Antonio
Carlos Jobim).
Another guest, Lee's brother
David Feldman makes his debut singing 'I Remember the Night' (about divorce and a family's time-stopping moment).
A Short History of Lee
"Lee Feldman plays the piano in just the dry, subtle, understated manner that his dry, subtle, understatedly hilarious songs call for." - Atlantic Monthly
Lee's fans are often greeted at shows by his opening question 'How's everybody doing - financially?' And this Borscht-belt humor and off-kilter warmth continues throughout the show. His ballad 'Give Me My Money' recently roused Occupy Wall Street protesters to start a ladies' choir at Zuccotti Park (as broadcast on CNN).
From "All Things Considered" to "
People" magazine, Lee's three critically acclaimed albums -- Living It All Wrong (Pure/Mercury, 1996); The Man in a Jupiter Hat (Bonafide/Mercury, 2000); and I've Forgotten
Everything (Urban Myth, 2006) -- have piqued the interest of people who care about sound, music and heart.
"Lee Feldman's I've Forgotten
Everything is unlike anything else in contemporary pop. If you have a passion for good songwriting, you need this album."-Stereophile
LeeFeldman.com
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