The Fishermen Three
The Fishermen Three is a band led by singer-songwriter Simon Beins alongside his longtime collaborator Raphi Gottesman. Beins, a founding member of the underground NYC band The Wowz, bonded with Gottesman while touring Europe backing up anti-folk heroes Jeffrey and Jack Lewis, and opening for bands like The Thermals, The Cribs with Johnny Marr, and Herman Dune. They’ve released two previous albums as The Fishermen Three, Rosina on Every Balcony, and Time to Think about the Morning, Once Again, which was recorded at Marlborough Farms Studios by Gary Olson, front man of legendary indie pop group Ladybug Transistor.
Eventually Gottesman moved to Oakland, CA where he’s become a fixture in the Bay Area music scene, playing with Sonny and the Sunsets, Michael James Tapcott, Odawas, Pacific Walker, Andrés Miguel Cervantes, and scores of other bands. At the same time, Beins moved to Hawaii to focus on film scoring and music production & engineering - now with more than a dozen original film scores under his belt as well as production & engineering credits with Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Paula Fuga, and more.
Fast forward to the early 2020’s when Beins’ unrecorded songs started piling up in a need of a home. Once the pair realized they had the material for an album they set about assembling a team of longtime friends and collaborators, all fixtures in the Bay Area music scene – Jeff Moller, Josh Housh, Michael James Tapscott, Graham Patzner - to play and sing, and enlisted studio veteran David Glasebrook to engineer. Pretty soon they were headed into 25th St Recording in Oakland, where they cut the basic tracks live to two-inch tape over a period of three days. Months of meticulous overdubbing followed, with friends around the world adding contributions, including Jack Johnson, Heidi Alexander of Earth Girl Helen Brown, Zach Gill of ALO, David Tattersall of The Wave Pictures, plus members of Herman Dune and The War On Drugs, and many more. Chris Peck mixed the album at his studio in Connecticut and David Glasebrook did the mastering at his studio The Garden Shed in Oakland.
The resulting album, Infinite Feeling, is a meditation on the limitless expanse of human emotion. Splitting the difference between anti-folk, hypnagogic pop, and soulful americana, the songs recall Michael Nau and Bill Callahan as much as Hiss Golden Messenger and John Wesley Harding era Dylan. The new album is due for release via Royal Oakie Records on August 29th 2025, available worldwide on CD, cassette, digital download, and streaming.
