Biography
Benjamin Lew shaped some of the decade's most inventive sounds by merging verse with atmospheric melodies. His work alongside saxophonist Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon produced three albums in 1995: Douzieme Journee: La Verbe, La Parure, L'amour, A Propos Dún Paysage, and Nebka. Interview Magazine, in its critique of Douzieme Journee: La Verbe, La Parure, L'amour, remarked, "All this band is missing is Yma Sumac on lead vocals".
The pair first crossed paths in a Brussels bar where Lew tended bar for Brown and other Tuxedomoon members. Conversations about their artistic goals uncovered a shared sensibility that has sustained ongoing projects.
Lew's initial release, When God Was Famous, paired him with vocalist Samy Birnbach of Minimal Compact and set poems by Yeats and Herman Hesse to music.
The pair first crossed paths in a Brussels bar where Lew tended bar for Brown and other Tuxedomoon members. Conversations about their artistic goals uncovered a shared sensibility that has sustained ongoing projects.
Lew's initial release, When God Was Famous, paired him with vocalist Samy Birnbach of Minimal Compact and set poems by Yeats and Herman Hesse to music.
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