Old Sea Brigade - 5am ParadiseBen Cramer describes 5 AM Paradise, his vivid and moving third album as Old Sea Brigade, as a coming of age record: ten songs that balance youthful abandon with maturity and restraint, full of imaginative flourishes, evocative textures, and graceful melodies that lend magnitude to mundane moments. It's the follow up to 2021's Motivational Speaking, which served as a critical breakout for the musician after earning praise from Consequence for making

Includes "Trouble in Paradise"

The composer and musician David Chalmin and performers led by Le Consort ensemble and Justin Taylor have sculpted this novel record together

As a flutist & electro-acoustic composer

and the Twin Peaks soundtrack into a lo-fi masterpiece all his own

The repertoire ranges from the juvenile up-tempo track 'Close Your Eyes' by Ray Noble and the soulful 'You've Changed'

which was then tuned and adjusted to my playing style

The album was tracked and mixed on Protools HD at 24/96 by Roger Montejano

New York's Compass

' produced largely by then manager

saxophone and mbira by James Goddard

this one is literally godlike

combined with exquisite delicacy and absolute intensity