"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"
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"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
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Track list
- Out of Time
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Robin Hood is currently unavailable
- Architects of Time
- Where the wild things are
- Double Helix
- Adam and Eve
- In a thousand years
- The thought of you is new
- Hand me a jet pack
- Where to put that foot
- Covering cold feet with warm sheets
- Time to go
Recorded from January to June 2010 in Belsize Park, London
Music and lyrics written by Ben Rusch
Viola played by Bimbi Urquhart
Artwork by Shreyans Bhansali
"Technically astounding and melodically beautiful - absolute musical genius"
New Reviews music magazine
"Incredibly intense and beautiful - this album manages to go places a conventional folk rock album cannot go"
Lipstik Indie magazine
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Previews |
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Robin Hood is currently unavailable
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The thought of you is new
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Hand me a jet pack
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Where the wild things are
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Where to put that foot
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Double Helix
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Covering cold feet with warm sheets
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Time to go
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The album will be available from Vandala Concepts, as well as from the following online stores:
Magnatune, iTunes U.S., iTunes
Australia/N.Z., Amazon On Demand, iTunes Canada, IMVU, MySpace Music, iTunes Mexico, Zune, Amazon MP3,
MediaNet, Thumbplay, Napster, Shockhound, Nokia, eMusic, iTunes
UK/European Union, and iTunes Japan
Release Notes
Recorded from January to June 2010 in Belsize
Park, London
Music and lyrics written by Ben Rusch
Viola played by Bimbi Urquhart
Artwork by Shreyans Bhansali
(c) Ben Rusch, 2010
For the last ten years, I've been trying to find a suitable string player to join in on the recordings. Still not having found anyone a year ago, I was ready to take anyone who owns
a string instrument; six months ago, I would have been happy with
anyone who's ever seen a violin or a viola, so long as they hold it in a
way that looks convincing. And then something amazing happened and I got incredibly lucky.
Actually, we all got lucky since thanks to Bimbi's appearance on the
scene, you get to listen to what is hands down the best viola you've
ever heard in popular music. Apart from being technically brilliant, it's played with a deep musicality that is moving and uplifting to listen to.
The tracks sound beautiful as a result and I'm so happy that all of this worked out the way it did. And I'm glad I make albums so we can share this with you.
On its interesting journey through the musical ears of the UK, Germany and North America, the OH YES!! album - a "progressive rock / folk / rock / pop / experimental / alternative rock / indie rock / progressive folk / crossover" (whatever all these things are) album - has attracted a range of categorisations and labels that is simply baffling. Sometimes, even the labels themselves are baffling - I was recently referred to as a "comedy pop artist" in a radio show, something that'll take a while to live down (and incidentally, not something I'm actively trying to achieve).
Whatever
the previous albums were, things are much, much, much simpler this
time. What you are reading about here is a folk-rock album. Simple as that.
Fair enough, it does have a quirky progressive instrumental intro
(because I can) but otherwise, it's a consistent package of folk and
rock, so you know what to expect.
I hope you enjoy the music.
Where to get it
You can order old school physical copies from amazon.
Alternatively, you can get the mp3 download from your online retailer of choice below:
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