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The Man In a Jupiter Hat by Lee Feldman
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fave it Free Jazz | Contemporary
13 tracks | 43 minutes
Released Jun 2003
on Bonafide Records
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:18 Eastern Europe BUY MP3 04:18 Eastern Europe "GIFT MP3" 04:18 Eastern Europe
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Army BUY MP3 02:54 Army "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Army
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Underground BUY MP3 03:40 Underground "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Underground
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:20 The Man In a Jupiter Hat BUY MP3 03:20 The Man In a Jupiter Hat "GIFT MP3" 03:20 The Man In a Jupiter Hat
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:15 Drunken Melodies BUY MP3 03:15 Drunken Melodies "GIFT MP3" 03:15 Drunken Melodies
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:02 Reluctant Cicada BUY MP3 04:02 Reluctant Cicada "GIFT MP3" 04:02 Reluctant Cicada
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 Williamsburg Bridge BUY MP3 03:42 Williamsburg Bridge "GIFT MP3" 03:42 Williamsburg Bridge
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:43 Jupiter Hat (reprise) BUY MP3 00:43 Jupiter Hat (reprise) "GIFT MP3" 00:43 Jupiter Hat (reprise)
If the 5th Beatle were Thelonious Monk, the music might sound something like this. Fresh, inevitable, and strange.
Editorial review
After the Polygram/Universal merger essentially eliminated labels like Lee Feldman's recording home, Mercury, the musician was on his own again, and he decided to independently release the 2000 follow-up to his splendid debut. On this second full-length recording, The Man in a Jupiter Hat, Feldman continues with his established method of telling romantic, often sad urban tales about people immersed in moments of strange emotional connection and irrational, yet undeniable fear. The name that always comes up when describing Feldman's deceptively tragic and reductive songwriting is, of course, Randy Newman. It is abundantly clear that Newman's funny, conversational, yet emotionally flammable lyrical tone had an influence on Feldman, but the younger artist manages to separate his music with a dry vocal delivery and direct infusions of his own truth and experience. Besides some denser arrangements, The Man in a Jupiter Hat doesn't stray to far from the formula that made Feldman's debut such an artistic (if not commercial) success. Sparse, musical, and intelligently sincere, this 2000 release is a well-crafted songwriting gem. ~ Vincent Jeffries, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
This artist combines contemporary composition, free improvisation and subversively catchy melodies to make classic but skewed pop music.
"Lee Feldman uses a Tin Pan Alley bounce to make twisted or troubled situations sound like parlor songs." - Jon Pareles, NY Times
"Chances are his finely tuned records will continue to be discovered by discerning listeners years down the road." -Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
"Reviving a bit of Brill Building artistry, this New York piano man makes you think and swoon and hum all at once." - Carrie Havranek, Village Voice
"Lee Feldman plays the piano in just the dry, subtle, understated manner that his dry, subtle, understatedly hilarious songs call for." - Charles Young, Atlantic Monthly
"Lee Feldman brings to mind the classic early work of Randy Newman both in terms of timeless songcrafting and ambitious arranging. The often haunting 'Living It All Wrong' gets most everything right.
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