The follow-up to 2004's multi-platinum Twelve Tusk Piano, Owl finds Lee sinking deeper into dusty grooves and exploring the union of sampling and sped-up live instrumentation.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (36:49) !
Related styles: POP: with Electronic Production, HIP-HOP/RAP: Instrumental Hip-Hop

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Owl & A Suit Tree With Lemons is Patrick Lee's thirteenth proper album. It was named by a three-year old girl for whom Patrick's wife was a nanny. The lead-off track, "Hands In", is in current rotation on Sirius radio worldwide. The record moves through the warm soul of "Westwood" into the polyrhythmic drum workout "My Drummer", then enters a world of joyful strings and choirs ("Lens Flares"), reversed-piano pop ("Speeches"), and aggressive post-rock-hop-stop-drop-and-roll ("What About You And I").

Patrick Lee is exceedingly tall and handsome and has been the latter since birth. He was a pretty strict vegetarian until recently. He studied jazz piano at the University of Colorado at Boulder and enjoys watching Charles Barkley swing a golf club.

As well as writing, recording, and producing over a dozen albums himself, Lee also founded the noisy Colorado funk bands the Analog Quartet and Doctor X, and is currently one-half of indie-rock monolith The Beebs. And when heâs not conquering the electro-hip hop-dance scene, Lee still finds time for solo and ensemble work in the Denver jazz scene.

While classically trained, it's easy to see the influences of jazz, hip-hop, and indie rock in Lee's works. Over the span of his lengthy discography we hear samples of instructional videos, soul singers, classic jazz horns, and popular cartoons from our childhood - all the while, his infectious beats and clever playing mold a soundtrack for the world around us.

Patrick Lee is a very nice guy, but he probably bets on sports more than your whole family combined.