"Not only the most unusual album of the year, but one of the best".
Nick Webb, Abbey Road Studios, The Beatles, Phil Spector, The Strokes, The Zombies

"Rarely is something this sophisticated also this much fun".
John Leckie, producer, Radiohead, Muse, The Verve, John Lennon

"... a brilliant new album by Jaye Muller and Ben Patton... an outstanding production"!
Jack Rieley, producer, The Beachboys, Kool and the Gang

"... a haunting and somewhat eccentric, but never boring album".
Chip Rachlin, tv producer, promoter The Rolling Stones,
Billy Joel, The Beachboys

"This one should hold you until the next Beatles release".
Andre Maquera, Producer / Guitar guru, 8084

Muller and Patton are readying their second release.
By Tim Harmon

Songwriting partners Jaye Muller and Ben Patton had formed a duo, recorded a well-loved debut album, put together a sensational live act with their semi-orchestral eight piece band, and documented their international adventures on an extravagant DVD. For a band under two years old, that ought to have been enough. But Muller and Patton then decided they wanted to record the greatest theme-album ever made.

Muller and Patton had often discussed their love of Brian Wilson’s “Smile”, the B-side of the Beatle’s “Abbey Road”, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, and other uninterrupted pieces of rock music, made up of smaller movements. In the summer of 2005, Jaye Muller demoed hundreds of lyric-less melodic fragments, and handed it over to Ben Patton. Patton added a bunch of his own melodies to the mix, and set about the task of assembling the fragments into quasi-operatic suites.

Jaye and Ben authored a coming-of-age story about a girl named Bailey, and Ben wove the story into enigmatic, ambiguous lyrics. A series of crude demos were made, and in June 2006, over the course of two frenzied weeks, the duo recorded the entire album.

Orchestral overdubs followed in July, introducing the tones of flute, baritone sax, trumpet, and, courtesy of Romanian prodigy violinist Tudor Andrei, exquisite violin.

Jonathan and Bailey has been released in March 2008. Find it on or Amazon.com

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