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No Depression reviews Ben Fisher’s new LP “Does the Land Remember Me?”

Ben Fisher

It may not be coincidence that Seattle-based singer-songwriter Ben Fisher’s new album trying to humanize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict came out the Friday before Rosh Hashana — the Jewish New Year.

Fisher, a Jewish-American multi-instrumentalist, majored in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington and moved to the holy land after graduation. There, he wrote for The Jerusalem Post and eventually earned dual citizenship in Israel before returning to the US in the summer of 2017. The songs borne out of those experiences abroad eventually became his third independent release, Does the Land Remember Me?, produced in part thanks to a small grant from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport.

But with Does the Land Remember Me?, Fisher tries to present the similar struggles Israelis and Palestinians experience through a series of narrative-heavy, contemplative ballads. Clocking in a just more than an hour, the album is as hefty in length as it is in emotional weight. While a number of musical and peace-building groups try to address these issues, an entire record dedicated to it is nearly unheard of, for Americans, Israelis, or Palestinians.

Fisher excels with presenting all of those perspectives throughout Does the Land Remember Me?. “Brave New World” serves as one of his own ruminations on being emotionally and spiritually pulled between Israel and America. “1948” offers multiple stories of the Arab-Israeli war of that year. Israelis refer to it as the War of Independence, in which Israel became a state; Palestinians call it “Al-Nakba, or “the catastrophe” due to the mass displacement that took place in its aftermath. The title track could also be sung from different points of view, since both Israeli-Jewish families and Christian or Muslim Palestinian families have been forcibly removed from this same chunk of land over the past 80 years or so. In fact…..READ MORE

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Billboard talks with Ben Lee about “B is for Beer: The Musical”

The author Tom Robbins says that he “hesitated not much longer than it would take to pop open a can of Budweiser” when Ben Lee approached him with a pitch to turn Robbins’ 2009 book B Is For Beer into a musical theater piece. But Lee remembers things a bit differently as the duo prepares for the Oct. 12 release of the all-star B Is For Beer: The Musical album — whose track “Everything Is Better With Beer” ft. Jon Cryer premieres below.

“It was just a very gradual thing,” Lee tells Billboard about the project, which is coming out some eight years after he first approached Robbins with the idea. “I think Tom was cautious. While I think he likes the idea of mainstream success and recognition, he’s not someone particularly willing to alter his creative impulse for the sake of the masses. So I think he was like, ‘OK, who is this guy calling me?’ and it played out for a number of years before our friendship developed and we began to have these great phone calls about all these things we’re both interested in and (B Is For Beer) began to gain momentum.”

The B Is For Beer musical idea was actually a lightning strike moment, starting when Lee was on a family vacation in Portland and found Robbins’ book in a store. Robbins was inspired to write it after seeing a New Yorker cartoon in which a publisher dismissed a writer’s idea, saying that, “‘I don’t think a children’s book about beer would sell.’…I decided then and there to prove the fictitious publisher wrong.” Reading the book, Lee himself had “a very intuitive moment of ‘I’m gonna make a musical of this book.’ It was one of those bizarre things I think artists don’t find so bizarre, ’cause a lot of our life……READ MORE

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Americana Highways premieres James Houlahan’s new track “Let It Go”

James HoulihanAmericana Highways brings you this song, “Let It Go,” from James Houlahan’s upcoming release The Wheel Still in Spin, produced by Fernando Perdomo (Linda Perhacs, Jakob Dylan). With Houlahan on guitar and vocals, Perdomo on bass and keyboards, the album also features Danny Frankel (Lou Reed, Fiona Apple, Nels Cline) on percussion and drums.  Esther Clark sings backup vocals.

Houlahan sings a sorrowful “Smothered in the night but how it burns upon my skin, the flickering of the light” with Clark’s lilting vocals riding above: “let it go.”  The pain of human reluctance to let things go that we once loved is palpable in this little gem…….READ MORE

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LA soul/R&B artist EE Beyond shares her debut EP, Watercolor Lies, at Ghettoblaster Magazine

In a political and social climate that instigates varying, majorly negative sentiments at a daily rate, finding a mode to articulate simultaneous anger, disappointment, and consequential  gratitude for existing comforts is a formidable feat. Enter EE Beyond, the Los Angeles-based soul and R&B singer/songwriter whose sonic influences stem from Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, and whose lyrical inspirations arise from the fictions she and her peers have been told. Oscillating from a voice that is soft and gentle to one that can be sharp and biting, Elaine Faye, the brainchild behind the project, tackles her frustrations over personal and national circumstances with an admirably controlled urgency. READ MORE…

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Wide Open Country gives Ben Fisher’s new LP “Does the Land Remember Me?” a wonderful review

Ben FisherThe title of Ben Fisher‘s new album is not a rhetorical question. Does the Land Remember Me? is the existential question of anyone who is raised Jewish. A central tenet of the religion, after all, is that we are the chosen people of a promised land. Conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelstein foots the bill for a program that allows young Jewish people to travel to Israel free of charge to better understand their heritage. But is it truly possible to have a connection to a place that, statistically, your ancestors did not live in for generations upon generations? Especially if the country you grew up in feels most like home?

Musically, Fisher’s album is fairly minimal — it’s mostly his voice with some piano accompaniment, though a few songs have larger backing bands. With no disrespect to the musicians on the album, the music is not the main event here. Damian Jurado, who produced the album, lets the lyrics take center stage. Instead, Fisher focuses on the 60-odd year history of a country that asserts its legitimacy on the basis of ancient history. Fisher is no stranger to the region, having lived there as a journalist, seeking to tell the stories of Israelis and Palestinians alike. Does the Land Remember Me? is an extension of that work.

Fisher’s telling of Israel’s story is wide-ranging: he describes the initial distribution of land among Jewish settlers in Tel Aviv in 1906; the viewpoints of both Jewish and Palestinian children; the confusion of a bomber in the Israeli Defense Force; the blithe optimism of a Jewish settler crossing into what’s now the Gaza Strip.

That’s a song that’s worthy of some attention, especially on this site. “Yallah to Abdullah” opens with some gentle slide guitar and a verse about a train. Textbook country music. By using…..READ MORE