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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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How about now?
An instrumental album
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Track listing
- A drop in the ocean
- Bolero Horse
- Branches waving in the wind
- Diving for pearls
- Dusty centuries
- Eagle Flight
- Good morning sunshine
- How about now...?
- Keeping it in suspense
- Love you from head to toe
- Piano Army
- Proud Repetition
- Quiet brilliance
- Reassured, epic
- Twisting in the waves
- Where the creeks flow together
Release date: 8 October 2010
Recorded July - October 2010 in Belsize Park, London
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Some previews
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Branches waving in the wind
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Where the creeks flow together
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What this is
Privately (well, until I started telling you just now), I take delight in my creative output being so all-over-the-place that it is genuinely helpful for expectation management purposes to have a little bit of info on the latest sonic outpouring of my twisted mind.
So to explain myself to you very briefly: The "4" album had a strong neoclassical bent, and "The Story of What Happened..."
had a thematic thread
running through it, using soundscapes and piano "songs" at times to tell a coherent story. Essentially, this one here is a piano solo album from the New Age / Easy Listening neck of the woods.
What I tried to do here (and you are most welcome to let me know how that went) is to write pieces that are full of piano glory, with fast moving themes and pleasant melodies, but which are (very) easy to listen to at the same time. So it's suitable as background / bath / commute music but will hopefully be refreshing on the ear.
If you fancy your own copy, give me a shout.
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*** 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) ***
(c) Ben Rusch, 2009/2010/2011, as appropriate - terms of use
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