“…Delivered with undeniable skill and charisma…Each gem of a tune is that much lovelier, darker, and funnier. This record has a genuine magnetism and scale that is impossible to anticipate but also impossible to deny.”
— Allison Lanier, Boston Hassle
Play the Part (2021)
Play the Part by Phil and the Flying Leap
Words and music by Phil Berman copyright 2021
Produced by Forrest Pettengill and Phil Berman
Music arranged by Brandon Wilkins (1, 3, 5-7, 9-12)
Engineered by Joel Edinberg
Recorded at Zumix (East Boston, MA), Q Division Studios (Somerville, MA), and Revolution Sound Studio (Charlestown, MA)
Mixed by Noah Georgeson
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer Maria Rice
Good Times Lyric Video
From Play the Part (2021). Video by Christopher Helyer.
Live Performance
Filmed from roofs, parlors, cul-de-sacs, and desktops across Greater Boston.
The Battle of Bunker Hill (2015)
Music and Lyrics by Phil Berman, Copyright 2015
Produced and arranged by Brendan Burns
Engineered and Mixed by Dan Cardinal
Recorded at Dimension Sound Studios, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer Maria Rice
The Penelopiad (2013)
Phil composed music for Margaret Atwood’s feminist adaptation of The Odyssey performed at the Boston Center for the Arts. The play includes six songs with Atwood’s lyrics.
The production was directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue and featured Christine Hamel Woodberry as Penelope.
Video: “The Wily Sea Captain” follows Penelope as she hears rumors of her husband’s lusty adventures across the Mediterranean.
Audio demo: “Dream Boats” is sung by Penelope’s twelve maids as they endure their subjugation to mistress’s suitors.