Eliot Eidelman's "Mrs. Paddiwinkle's Treats"
Out May 2!
Eliot Eidelman is a wild-spirited and prolific singer/songwriter who is releasing a fantastic new album on SADFAM Records. Mrs. Paddiwinkle’s Treats is a collection of contemporary lullabies, nursery rhymes, torch songs, mantras and classical art song.
The album features intimate live performances of Eliot accompanying himself on guitar and piano at home in his tiny cabin located in a remote canyon outside of Ojai, CA, backed by colorful arrangements concocted with co-producing collaborator Evan Backer (Wand, Cory Hanson, Itasca). Ranging from solo musings to synthesized symphonic sweeps, Mrs. Paddiwinkle’s Treats catalogs some of Eliot’s recent explorations outside the territory of rock and Americana and deep into acoustic psychedelia, with echos further back to early jazz, traditional folk, and classical traditions.
From Rufus:
“Eliot is a long-time friend whose music I have been inspired by for the past 15 years. His influences come from all corners of time and space (everything from Beethoven’s late string quartets to Moroccan music field recordings). His unbound musical interests manifest wonderfully in his idiosyncratic, outsider music. This album brings me into a fantastical world. A world that connects past to future. It gets me to consider small things, as well as big, emancipatory ways of being. That’s the kind of music I want to listen to.”
From Eliot:
“I often wake up in the morning with a tune in my head, a lingering remnant from the dream state. I climb down from the loft and try to draw it out with words on the piano or guitar into a working song as swiftly as possible. I don’t question where my musical and lyrical ideas come from, I just get them down. When I revisit these semi-conscious creations later, it’s sometimes hard for me to believe that I was the one who wrote them… It’s as if they came from somewhere else entirely. It’s kind of eery and magical and I like it.”
Mrs. Paddiwinkle’s Treats releases May 2 on SADFAM Records. Stop by our bandcamp to get your copy and/or subscribe to our music co-op. Thanks for listening!