hi friends - i just posted my first blog on the huffington post

check it out here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-lee/in-praise-of-the-working_b_370850.html

and leave a comment!

oh and come to largo tomorrow night to see me play with margaret cho if youre in l.a.

xoxo

ben

hi guys

sorry ive been out of touch for so long

its been a busy time between preparing for the baby, producing jessica chapnik's album, doing an aussie tour etc etc

anyway, without further ado, click HERE for the long-awaited FREE download of the new noise addict album.

13 years in the making.

well actually 12 years, 11 months and 3 weeks of holiday

and a week of getting it done.

i hope you guys like it.

let me know what you think

love

ben

hi all

life hurtles along at a rollicking pace this year

moving towards the inevitable life-changer due end of september

its a fun terrifying creative and reflective period

built a home studio

making loads of music

producing jessica chapnik's solo album

her songs will make you cry

i promise

you can see a video for one of the songs off the last album we did here


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDTXzcZ8NPk

but these new ones are mainly all her writing and a whole other level of mystery

the noise addict album details are very close to being revealed

but i can tell you this much

the album will be given away as a free download to all of you sometime in august

still sorting out the details

you also might remember amiel courtin-wilson is making a doco about me

(8 years in the making - he's almost done editing!)

anyway, he made a great film called 'bastardy' that is out now

see it if you can

trailer and info here

www.bastardydocumentary.com

life seems full of possibility at the moment

more so than in a long while

each day im not quite sure what is going to happen

a long way from boring

surrender right

seems to be the ever present lesson

i hope you are all well

wherever you are

xoxo

b

hi friends.

getting ready to head out on the first US tour
playing songs from 'the rebirth of venus'. should be really fun as im
doing it as a co-headline tour with low vs diamond who will both play
before me, and have also been kind enough to be my backing band during
my set. we havent started rehearsing just yet so i cant tell you much
about how it will sound, but i do know that ive come to savor
experiments like this. it keeps me really excited about the process of
performing. the last couple of years ive been assembling makeshift
bands whenever i need one and i each has a totally different feel and
energy. getting musically involved with a new group of people is always
super intimate and demands a lot of surrender. heres to noble
experiments...hope you can come and check out the results...see the
tour dates here.


last night nic and i mixed the noise addict album. the whole album was
recorded in my bedroom with only one microphone and lots of arbitrary
rules like no micstands, no guitar tuners and no second takes. it has a
great feel to it. its one of the records im most proud of. no one at my
labels has heard anything but i plan to get it to them next week and
make a plan for getting it out asap to you guys. i definitely want to
release it on vinyl. thats all i know right now. some songs that im
most excited about are "do i know you?" a track i started writing at 14
and finished last month, "chris martin's frown", and "i heart your
band".


my friend josh radnor, who acts on the tv show "how i met your mother" has a great radio show you should all check out here.
you can listen through a few of his recent shows by clicking "podcasts"
on the left. he has great taste in tunes and is a good man. so enjoy.


see you guys soon

xoxo

ben

Hi friends.

As you may know, some proceeds from sales of my
new album "The Rebirth of Venus" are going to FINCA - a
non-profit-microfinance organization, sometimes referred to as "The
World Bank for the Poor".


Half the world's citizens - three billion people - struggle to live on
less than $2 a day. This affects their nutrition, health, and their
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Working together we can change the future by sponsoring a Village Bank through FINCA.


If we can raise $5,000 we can change the life of a community by helping
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to build a business that will provide for their family and build their
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Donate any amount, small or large, to be part of a great pro-active way of helping people in need.

Please click this link to visit the "Ben Lee & Friends" team site.


Thank you


Ben