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Ben Rusch
"original, utterly brilliant, deviously good song craft" - Wildy's World
"unique, amazing, wonderful" - Lipstik Indie
"unique, intelligent, comparison is almost impossible" - 2010 international song contest "Expose Yourself"
 
 
"One of the most inventive and talented songwriters in the business today"
 
- Isaac Davis Jr. MBA, Editor in Chief of Junior's Cave Online Magazine
 
 




Ben is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer based in London (UK) who has released 22 (twenty-two) full-length albums' worth of Pop, Folk, Rock, Progressive Rock, Neoclassical Music and anything in between. 

Ben is on the roster of artists at  Magnatune, New Groove Music (NGM) and Vandala Concepts.  He also works closely with music publishing and licensing companies, including Enteramente, Bundini Music, Broken Eye Productions, Revostock, Audiofount, Manifest Media, Music for Film and Television, Soundiva (Italy), Music Supervisor, Music Loops and Hook Music, and is a member of the YM International Network of Composers. Ben is on the roster of composers at The Sound Works, London.

Over the years, Ben played several hundred live performances and was picked up by magazines and broadsheet newspapers around the world, such as  IAE - I Am Entertainment Magazine, Lipstik Indie music magazine, Inanna Naked magazine, Skope Magazine, Music Now on Junior's Cave, Wildy's World, LaserDog's Music Hour, Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal Magazine, Merlin Prog, the Progarchives and the Next Music Blog.  Two of Ben's albums are also featured in "the bible of progressive music" - Progression Magazine.  He was also one of the artists selected for the "Hot Seat" feature presented by L.A. A&R veteran Holly Hutchison (Capitol Records and Atlantic Records).

Songs from the 22 albums have been played on terrestrial radio stations (SWR, RPR, Rockland Radio, Germany) and on a large number of internet radio stations, e.g. KTEP radio El Paso, Progressive Positivity Radio, the Amazing Folk and Roots Radio Show, Rhubarb Radio, Insomnia Radio UK, Maximum Threshold, the progressive fusion radio show Dancing About Architecture, The Songwriter's Network, Indie 104 Radio LA, Breakaway Radio, Pongid Radio, Radio Crystal Blue, Banana Peel Radio, Air Scarab, Indie Life Radio, Leaf Pile Radio, Underworld Mix Radio, BandRadioRadio Rock Cafe, AiiRadio and mvyradio.  They have also been featured multiple times on some of the most highly rated music podcasts in the world, including the Prog'opolis Podcast, the Dark Compass podcast, the Indie Launchpad podcast and the DigiVegas podcast.  Ben is also a participating artist of the Audiosyncracy podcasts and radio shows. 


 


 


 


 
*** Runner-Up, 2010 Nashville Tennessee Concerts Song Contest *** Finalist x2, 2010 Show Me The Music international songwriting competition *** Finalist, 2010 Expose Yourself international songwriting contest *** Semi-Finalist, 2010 international songwriting competition Song of the Year *** Semi-Finalist, 2010 UK Songwriting Contest *** Artist Of The Month, Anakina Musica (Italy) *** Band Of The Week at Leaf Pile Radio *** Artist Pick Of The Week of NRG Theory Management *** Song of the Day on FM 102X radio *** Weekly Featured Artist in Music Now, Junior's Cave online magazine *** Honorable mention x2, Nashville songwriting contest SongDoor 2009 ***
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