"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
Some audio clips from the last 28 albums
The Truth Of All Love
Ben Rusch & Simon Charlton
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"A unique album - most people will have heard nothing quite like it before."
-- New Reviews music magazine
"Rusch has a fine singing voice, with a deep soothing tone. But it's his musicianship that gives the album its value. His acoustic guitar playing is superb, often reminiscent of John Renbourn."
-- Evolver, The Progarchives
I Will Love You For A Long Time Because You're Holy
That Night When We Fell
***Finalist, 2010 Great American Song Contest ***
She Comes To Me In My Hour Of Weakness
Until The End Of Days
The Ballads Are Soaked In Whisky
How Long Must I Wait Until The Ocean
Architects of Time
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"absolute musical genius"
-- Ste, New Reviews music magazine
"beautiful - unique - 'Out Of Time' is by far one of the most amazing progressive rock instrumentals I've ever heard"
-- Derek Leduc, Lipstik Indie Magazine
"delightfully intense and beautiful -- technically sophisticated but without losing its ability to reach the listener"
-- Ulf Backstrøm, creator of Merlin Prog and jury member of the Prog Awards
Nominated for "BEST FOREIGN RECORD"
Where the wild things are
** Runner-Up Prize, 2010 Tennessee Concerts Song Contest, Nashville **
** Finalist, 2010 Great American Song Contest, Nashville **
** Finalist, 2010 Show Me The Music international songwriting competition **
** Honorable Mention, 2010 Great Lakes Songwriting Contest"
Architects of Time
** Semi-Finalist, 2010 international songwriting competition "Song of the Year" **
In a thousand years
Double Helix
OH, YES!!
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"utterly brilliant - intriguing - highly inventive - deviously good song craft - the Poet
Laureate of Indie Rock"
-- Wildy Haskell, Wildy's World
"unique - impressive - amazing - an absolutely wonderful
piece"
-- Derek Leduc, Lipstik Indie Magazine
"very interesting, quirky, catchy - it's obvious that Ben is here to stay"
-- Vincent Reynolds, IAE Magazine
"unique, out of the ordinary and completely transportive"
-- Next Music Blog
"'Oh, Yes' is
an album with a lot of creativity and substance and the voice of Rusch is really good throughout the
album. The album is a very
varied and beautiful piece of music with a fine combination of past
and present."
-- Ulf Backstrøm, Member of the Prog Awards and creator of Merlin Prog
Fissile isle
***Finalist, 2010 Show Me The Music international songwriting competition ***
Until the coast is clear
** semi-finalist, UK Songwriting Contest 2010 **
** Song of the Day - FM 102X radio **
The Daily Mail
Ray by ray
The Pop Diva Trajectory
I'm still here (clip)
The end of time (clip)
Bass guitars in Heaven (clip)
Time
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"Extraordinary
musicians produce extraordinary music. The songs on the Time album transcend all
conceivable stylistic frameworks.
The music is uniquely rewarding and reveals new facets every time you
listen to a song and allow yourself to become immersed in its appealing
intensity. The flawless lyrics
are full of fantasy, imagination and substance, achieving a
near-literary level of sophistication."
-- Andreas Keller, Die Rheinpfalz newspaper
Your Eyes Are
Like Fire
*** honorable mention, 2009 SongDoor International Songwriting
Competition ***
***Finalist, 2010 international songwriting contest Expose Yourself***
A Small Selection of Things...
*** honorable mention, 2009 SongDoor International Songwriting
Competition ***
Nocturnal Flight
Mews
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Poetry In Motion
Perpetual Motion
Saw Jig
Grace
Marbles
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Axis
The most tender embrace
Left
Space Donkey
Judy
Doubly Bubbly
Right
Mercury
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Brand New Day
Audiosyncracy One
Slide Jig
Skin
One Point Jig
Big Boat
Sonic Graffiti
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Delicious Salsa
Network Attack
In Digital Ink
Strange Tango
The River is wide
Chic Jig
Empathy
Termite Jig
A Definitive Collection Of Lucid Dreams
Acoustic Fusion - released under the project name Jasmine Brunch
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More
Ciao Béla
El amor prohibido
When your boat returns
She said something beautiful
The morning after
So much more to give
Snow reel
Keep well until we meet again
Acoustic Levitation
Solo Piano - released under the project name Jasmine Brunch
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And so it begins
What happened to us
A tribute to The New Strung Harp
Free at last
Impromptu for two hands
The story of what happened...
instrumental music; released under
the project name Jasmine Brunch
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The following takes place between 7am and 7.01am
Contemplating the unthinkable (clip)
Covering cold feet with warm sheets
Walking slowly towards nowhere in particular (clip)
The End (clip)
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instrumental music; released under
the project name Jasmine Brunch
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The Cool Fugue
Two birds gliding across rolling hills and green meadows
Prelude in D minor for three pianos
Ice melting fast
Pearls falling from a necklace
How about now?
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Diving for pearls
Twisting in the waves
Dry Hard
Tomorrow
*** Finalist, National Rock Music Contest, Germany ***
Do I want too much
Mellow Evening
Grale for sale
In Loneliness and Wine (2003 version)
sBENt II
Rock Bottom
Come back to me
sBENt, the third
Iteration 3
Ballads soaked in Whiskey
I'll put my soul in a washing machine
five
I'm alive
Ben played piano, keyboards, acoustic
& electric guitars,
bass, bagpipes, tin whistle, accordeon, percussion, violin, mandolin,
tuba
and
saxophone; "Dry Hard" was written by Ben Rusch and performed by Wet Desert. If there are beautiful viola sounds in there somewhere, it would have been Bimbi Urquhart who played it.
All
music and lyrics written and performed by Ben Rusch (c) 2009 and 2010, except "The Truth Of All Love" for which lyrics were written by the amazing Simon Charlton - music by Ben Rusch, and except for The Daily Mail for which lyrics were written by the amazing Anamitra Deb and the slightly less amazing Ben Rusch - music by Ben Rusch.
*** Nominated for BEST FOREIGN RECORD at the international 2010 Prog Awards *** Runner-Up, 2010 Nashville Tennessee Concerts Song Contest *** FInalist x2, 2010 Great American Song Contest *** Finalist x2, 2010 Show Me The Music international songwriting competition *** Finalist, 2010 Expose Yourself international songwriting contest *** Honorable Mention x2, Nashville songwriting
contest SongDoor 2010 *** Honorable Mention x2, Nashville songwriting
contest SongDoor 2009 *** Honorable Mention, Great Lakes Songwriting Contest 2010 *** Semi-Finalist, 2010 international songwriting competition Song of the Year *** Semi-Finalist, 2010 UK Songwriting Contest *** Artist Of The Month, Anakina Musica (Italy) ***
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