Infinite Feeling

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Infinite Feeling is the third album by The Fishermen Three, the band led by singer-songwriter Simon Beins alongside his longtime collaborator Raphi Gottesman. Beins, a founding member of the underground NYC band The Wowz, bonded with Gottesman while touring with antifolk heroes Jeffrey and Jack Lewis. They’ve released two previous albums as The Fishermen Three, Rosina on Every Balcony and Time to Think about the Morning, Once Again. Eventually Gottesman moved to Oakland, CA where he’s become a fixture in the Bay Area music scene, playing with Sonny and the Sunsets, Michael James Tapscott, Pacific Walker, and others, while Beins moved to Hawaii to focus on scoring films.

Fast forward to the early 2020’s and Beins’ unrecorded songs started piling up in a need of a home. Once the pair realized they had the material for an album they set about assembling a team of longtime friends and collaborators, all fixtures in the Bay Area music scene – Jeff Moller, Josh Housh, Michael James Tapscott, Graham Patzner - to play and sing, and enlisted studio veteran David Glasebrook to engineer. Pretty soon they were headed into 25th St Recording in Oakland, where they cut the basic tracks live to two-inch tape over a period of three days. After that they spent months meticulously overdubbing, starting at The Garden Shed in Oakland and adding in contributions from friends around the world, including Jack Johnson, Heidi Alexander of Earth Girl Helen Brown, Zach Gill of ALO, David Tattersall of The Wave Pictures, plus members of Herman Dune and The War On Drugs, and many more. Later on Chris Peck mixed the album at his studio in Connecticut and David Glasebrook did the mastering at his studio The Garden Shed in Oakland.

The resulting album is a meditation on the limitless expanse of human emotion, splitting the difference between anti-folk, hypnagogic pop, and soulful americana–recalling Michael Nau and Bill Callahan as much as Hiss Golden Messenger and John Wesley Harding era Dylan. Lead single “Out of Style” pairs sun-faded retro-pop with playful lyrics that advocate for staying true to your tastes no matter the trends of the day, and “Electricity” features lead guitar by David Tattersall, illuminating the beauty of innocence alongside the weight of experience, inspired by a dream Beins once had. Meanwhile “Light In the Wake of Love” revives a song first included on a Wowz album and features a bevy of special guest contributions, including duet vocals by Heidi Alexander of Earth Girl Helen Brown, strings by Graham Patzner, and a heartbreaking guitar solo courtesy of Jack Johnson.

“...rich with an unmistakable, analogue glow…” - UpToHear

“...splitting the difference between anti-folk’s earnestness and the haze of hypnagogic pop…” - KLOF Mag

[[Selling Points]]

• CD housed in full color digipak
• Highly anticipated third album from The Fishermen Three
• Features original artwork by Mayon Hanania
• Featuring contributions from Jack Johnson, members of The War on Drugs, Herman Dune, ALO, Sugar Candy Mountain, Herman Dune, The Wave Pictures, Earth Girl Helen Brown, and more
• Press coverage includes reviews and features in Austin Town Hall, Americana UK, KLOF Mag, UpToHear, and more

[[Catalog Number]]DE0062CD[[Artist]]The Fishermen Three