Ben Lee

Ben Lee returns with the first single ?Get Used To It' from his new album “Deeper Into
Dream”. The ARIA award-winning musician's fascination with dreams and the mysteries
behind them has long been a part of 20-plus years in the music business. But only now
does the former Noise Addict singer, whose early years saw releases on the Beastie
Boys' Grand Royal label and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! imprint, feel it's the right
time to explore that. In the last several years Lee fell in love with the mysteries that
dreaming presents. And after he and his wife, actress Ione Skye, welcomed their
daughter, Goldie Priya, in 2009, Lee thought it was time to re-examine things,
especially the hidden messages inside his own dreams.

"After having such a long career in music, and having had a baby, I just felt like music,
in a way, it's sort of become a job that I could have just maintained at a certain level
by doing it in a way that I knew how to do it," he explains. "And that became sort of
terrifying to me. Music for me has always been a tool for working out exploring myself
and exploring the world. It literally took me out of Australia onto a journey around the
world. Or internally, it's the creativity – it unlocks things inside you and the audience.
So I just wanted go deeper with that and I found working with the dream really
powerful for that."

Lee is also the subject of 8-years-in-the-making feature length documentary – Catch My
Disease – from director Amiel Courtin-Wilson, which premiered at the Melbourne
International Film Festival in August. The film captures Lee's life and career up until his
daughter Goldie was born.

From there, Lee began work on his new album. Lee took the reigns for self-production
on this record. Joining Lee for this dozen-song set are his longtime musical collaborators
Nic Johns, Lara Meyerratken, and Petra Haden, as well as mixer Noah Georgeson (The
Strokes, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom). While recording at his Laurel Canyon
home studio, he also got a little help from his friends and family. For the last year, Lee
has been recording and collecting their dreams, all of which are spliced into three
mesmerizing dream collages and included on the album.