My newest offering, Underneath the Orange Tree, is out everywhere today. I spent the last two years collecting experiences and stories and turning them into melodies, between nonstop international tours, producing albums, and doing session work. Over the course of 4 session days in my studio,
@mattmusty @visitorcoffee and I brought them to life for you.
This collection focuses on melody as a form of storytelling, and moments of augmenting melody and improvisation as expression. It is intensely human, the entire album is comprised of full takes with no editing. In a world increasingly being clogged with AI, this is the sound of experienced humans making music together, responding to each other in realtime, and expressing lived experience. A few overdubs were done to add characters to each story when it called for them. I hope you enjoy this new little world of mine. Fun fact: this is the last music I ever recorded with a gallbladder.
Come and join me, Matt, and Brian May 23rd at
@healingforcerecords to hear the album live in full. Vinyl for sale now on Bandcamp and at shows.
Every piece of art takes a village to bring to life and I want to give an immense thank you to each person who has lent their artistry to this collection. It’s been an incredible privilege to get to work with you all on this:
Ben Alleman: songs, producer, piano with amp, mellotron, prophet, resynator
Brian Lang
@visitorcoffeela : p-bass
Matt Musty
@mattmusty : drums
Parker McAnnally
@vitalelectric : mix
Brian Starley
@bergatronmusic : engineer tracks 2, 5, 6, 7
Sean Cook
@xseancookx : engineer tracks 3, 4, 8, 9
John McLaggan
@parachutemastering : master
Nick Townsend
@townsendmastering : lacquer cutting
@belumusicpress : vinyl pressing
Alex Farias
@a.nefarias : visual concepts, film photography, design
Sonya Koshuta: vinyl label design
