Alas, such despair makes for quick, punchy pop music. Jazz and classically trained, Feldman gracefully steps into the brassy chamber of pop melodies and classic compositions with multi-talented skills for playing bass, drums, clarinet, strings, and accordion. He independently released his debut, Living It All Wrong, in 1996 and had it picked up by PURE a year later. Glowing praise rolled in from the press, but a major label merger involving Universal was a shadow in the wake of his success. Such chaos led to Feldman's decision to start his own label, Bonafide Records, in 1998. Feldman's second effort, The Man in a Jupiter Hat, followed two years later. ~ MacKenzie Wilson