Artist description Producer, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Brian Frazee's (pronounced FRAY-Z') debut album, "Feeding the Id" is a mood swing worthy of the greatest psychoanalysts. Ripe with newfound love, confident sensuality, cautious healing, and social reaction, the experience is genuinely human while its tone and perspective is uniquely Brian. Frazee grew up the son of a businessman and an elementary school teacher. Always a creative kid, he loved to draw and perform short plays for anyone who would watch. But, it wasn't until his parents broke down and bought him his first guitar that he dove so completely into creating. A couple lessons and at least a hundred pounds of guitar magazines later, he was hooked. Brian's musical tastes broadened while attending New York University; hanging out in clubs and sitting in with various bands allowed him time to explore styles and learn other instruments, including his voice. His songwriting improved as he embraced new music; now considering himself a musician more than simply a guitarist. Moving to Los Angeles, Brian began producing and recording full-time, working freelance and as a staff producer at an ad agency. He began to assemble his own studio where he experimented with various production techniques and writing styles. Those experiments eventually turned into nearly three albums worth of material. It was then that he began to focus, write and record what would eventually become "Feeding the Id". Brian performed the entire album himself with the exception of the drums. Longtime friend, Chad Derick recorded the drums tracks for the album in just under two days. When it came time to add the final vocals and mix, Brian packed some gear into his car and drove to a remote cabin deep in the Colorado Rockies. After two weeks of seclusion and subzero temperatures, the album was mixed and ready for veteran mastering engineer, Eddy Schreyer to add the final touches. Influenced by diverse artists such as Meshell Ndegeocello, Jeff Buckley, Jon Brion, Rufus Wainwright, and U2; it's hard to pin down exactly what his album sounds like. It's lush vocal arrangements, building and dynamic music create an ecstatic and sensual mood around lyrics set on defining oneself and his relationship with the world. "Feeding the Id" will be released Fall 2001.

Music Style Modern Rock/Pop/Indi-rock

Musical Influences Shudder To Think, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, U2, Gavin Friday, Rufus Wainwright, Jon Brion, Emitt Rhodes

Similar Artists Jon Brion, Jason Falkner, U2

Group Members Brian Frazee - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Various Sounds Chad Derick - Drums, Percussion Rob Bird - Bass guitar

Instruments Voice, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Strings

Albums Feeding the Id (available May 2002)

Press Reviews This album had me from the first notes—it's filled with songs that are upbeat yet reflective, poppy and memorable. Newcomer Brian Frazee does it all on his debut CD—sings, plays the instruments, writes the songs and produces the whole shebang to boot. There's a hint of one of my favorite do-it-all-yourself-ers, Emitt Rhodes, throughout the CD. He seems to share the knack of creating good old-fashioned pop melodies stuffed with tales of love found, lost and psychoanalyzed in true contemporary fashion. Although each tune is different, there is a consistency, an almost conceptual thread that winds throughout: relationships, relationships, relationships. Frazee sings about falling hard into romantic love, and then waking up to the realization that things are not the way he thought. Kicking off with "Red Roses Turning," he details all the ways he and his lover are wrong for each other, lamenting "Like lovers often do/We've grown from one to two/Red roses turning black" and resolving "I'm never looking back" as he heads off into a new relationship. By the second track, "Drunk On You," he's seducing a new girl with the lyrics "Pour me a glass of you/I'm so thirsty for a taste of your red wine." Hey, he could win me over with words like that and that voice, so seductive and plaintive. But we're on a roller coaster ride with Frazee, because in the third song he's bitching about backstabbing friends and sighing "It's too good to be over." A chorus of his own voice provides "oh-oh-oh"s behind his lead vocals, and his guitar work calls to mind The Edge on early U2 hits. On cuts like "Wildest Heart" and "Once In A Moment," or the biting morning-after song "If You Told Me So," with its Queen-like harmonies, the voice draws you in and the words surprise you with their disarming charm and introspection. Brian Frazee is talented and enticing and it sounds like he's got a great future in pop music, if he can get someone with enough money to secure the promotion needed to get him on the radio and out on the road beyond his home town of L.A. Then all of you can discover Frazee too. Judee Gould For fans of: Todd Rundgren, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright www.highbias.co

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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