03 February 2012
29 January 2012
New album finished:
Mews. Released under the
Jasmine Brunch pseudonym which keeps confusing people.
18 December 2011
Here's a sample clip from the latest project - viral videos for the quite amazing Photolink Creative Group, directed by Cosmo Wallace for the Gate Films.
Click here to watch.
02 December 2011
Just finished scoring the Simply Be competition 2011 for The Gate Films in the UK.
Click here to watch.
20 October 2011
10 October 2011
Recorded live video with Jim Kroft - shot in Neukölln, Berlin by Manuel Schaumberger in Jim's staircase.
Click here to listen.
5 August 2011
The song "Perfectly Serene" from the album
Marbles and the song "In Digital Ink" from the album "Sonic Graffiti" will feature in the TV comedy series "GIRLHATTAN".
Click here to watch a funny trailer.
4 August 2011
1 August 2011
20 June 2011
20 May 2011
16 April 2011
10 April 2011
30 March 2011
Finalist with 2 songs in the
Great American Song Contest:
Where The Wild Things Are (from "Architects of Time") and
We Fell Away (from "The Truth Of All Love").
2 March 2011
28 February 2011
New instrumental album
A Definitive Collection Of Lucid Dreams released under the pseudonym "
Jasmine Brunch".
24 February 2011
Oh I love the
Dark Compass podcast. Today's episode (episode number 457 - seriously - and it's not one of the longest-running podcasts for nothing - check it out) features
Until The End Of Days from the album
The Truth Of All Love. Thanks Rowley.
16 February 2011
New piano album
Acoustic Levitation released under the pseudonym "
Jasmine Brunch".
11 February 2011
Review of
The Truth Of All Love by Ulf Backstrøm, member of the jury of the Prog Awards, published on
Merlin Prog.
7 February 2011
25 January 2011
2 Honorable Mentions in the Nashville songwriting competition SongDoor 2010 for the songs "Out Of Time" and "Where The Wild Things Are", both from the Architects of Time album.
23 January 2011
19 January 2011
Check out
this review of
The Truth Of All Love by Tim Whale of the Indie Bands Blog.
16 January 2011
15 January 2011
9 January 2011
"The Story Of What Happened" album makes Audiosyncracy's Best of 2010 list.
8 January 2011
4 January 2011
25 December 2010
Architects of Time album nominated for BEST FOREIGN RECORD at the international 2010 Prog Awards.
16 December 2010
15 December 2010
14 December 2010
Coming up: One-hour feature on the Generation Now show on
Gen X Radio. Airs 17 December 2010, 9pm EST - 2am GMT - 3am CET - 18 December 1pm EDT.
13 December 2010
7 December 2010
Coming up: two of my tracks will be used in the soundtrack to the short film "no harvest: the intern" by Clark Birchmeier.
6 December 2010
5 December 2010
The song
Empathy from the
Sonic Graffiti album is now the theme tune to the podcasts of the Educational Technology website
Ed Tech Central.
4 December 2010
Quite neat - Sonic Graffiti was the most popular album at Magnatune for a week. Just saying...
23 November 2010
23 November 2010
21 November 2010
18 November 2010
"
Hand Me a Jet Pack" will be featured on the
Voodoo Brew show hosted by
Babylon Street Radio - a whole radio station devoted to eclectic and groovy Rock 'n' Roll. Airs Thursdays 7pm - 10pm US central time / midnight - 3am UK time / 1am - 4am CET.
16 November 2010
Delighted to announce that I will feature on the Generation Now show on
GenX radio. Further details to come but for anyone my age, this is the definitive radio station if every now and then, you are haunted by a comforting sense of nostalgia. Tag line: "
the soundtrack from your life" and that's not an exaggeration.
2 November 2010
New instrumental album finished. It's called
"Sonic Graffiti" and will be distributed by Magnatune. It will also be available on all your favourite online stores. Click
here to listen.
31 October 2010
Double trouble: Two Finalist placings in the 2010 Show Me The Music international songwriting competition! They are for "Fissile Isle" and for "Where The Wild Things Are".
22 October 2010
The song "
Architects of Time" wins a Semi-Finalist placing in the 2010 international songwriting competition
Song of the Year.
14 October 2010
8 October 2010
Album number 21 finished. It's called
"How About Now?" Click
here to listen.
21 August 2010
Architects of Time album released on
Magnatune.
11 August 2010
Great little present for you from my Canadian friends at Vandala Concepts: FREE download of their latest compilation CD, which features lots of great indie rock/folk and also The Masochist Song. Click
here to access the store link.
7 August 2010
Out of Time featured on
episode 87 of the Insomnia Radio UK podcast.
1 August 2010
Review of the
Architects of Time album by the
New Reviews music magazine.
26 July 2010
Review of the
Architects of Time album by
Ulf Backstrøm, creator of the progressive music treasure trove
Merlin Prog and jury member of the Prog Awards.
18 July 2010
I have only one thing to say to you: Magnatune!
7 July 2010
Article in German broadsheet newspaper
Die Rheinpfalz. Click
here to read.
3 July 2010
19 June 2010
9 June 2010
8 June 2010
Radio debut of
Adam and Eve on Captain SIB's radio show
AiiRadio.net
7 June 2010
1 June 2010
"
Until the coast is clear" chosen as
Song Of The Day on
FM102X radio
31 May 2010
Semi-Finalist in the international songwriting competition UK Songwriting Contest 2010 with the song "
Until The Coast Is Clear"
29 May 2010
Edge of Sanity and
The End Of Time featured on episode 30 of the progressive rock show
Alien Theatre Radio
28 May 2010
Today I had the delightful privilege of being joined by the astonishingly gifted Bimbi Urquhart on the viola for the last recording session for the upcoming album. Goose pimples from the first note has got to be a good sign.
25 May 2010
Out Of Time and
As Good As It Gets featured on episode 144 of the
Prog'opolis podcast at the Dividing Line Broadcast Network, one of the most prestigious progressive rock shows in the known universe.
20 May 2010
FINALIST in the international songwriting contest
Expose Yourself with the song
Your Eyes Are Like Fire. Yippie.
13 May 2010
I just noticed that thanks to the support of Jamey Osborne's radio show
Audiosyncracy, "
The story of what happened" is currently at number 32 in the Zone Music Reporter new age music charts. I am thrilled and profoundly grateful.
8 May 2010
Ben and Crystal Lee, President of
Vandala Concepts, to team up, thereby forming a partnership that comprises two of the most efficient members of the music business..
1 May 2010
26 April 2010
15 April 2010
Ben to be featured on the
Dancing About Architecture radio show (progressive rock and fusion). Thursday, 21.30 EDT (1.30am GMT) and Friday noon EDT (4pm GMT).
14 April 2010
Ben is one of four musicians to be featured in the April/May issue of
IAE Magazine as an "Independent Gem". Review of the OH, YES!! album is available
here.
13 April 2010
7 April 2010
3 April 2010
Album number 19 to debut on the
Audiosyncracy radio show on KTEP radio - Sunday, 4th April, 11pm MDT (5th April, 6am GMT). (El Paso, USA)
2 April 2010
2 April 2010
Fissile Isle featured on
Air Scarab radio. (Los Angeles, USA)
30 March 2010
Ben selected as
Featured Artist of the Month in the Italian music industry newsletter published by Anakina Musica. It was also published in
this blog.
28 March 2010
First radio feature of the "4" album on
Jason Bush's Laserdog's
Music Hour radio talk show. (Atlanta, USA)
26 March 2010
24 March 2010
21 March 2010
20 March 2010
19 March 2010
Until The Coast Is Clear now featured on
mvyradio. (Martha's Vineyard, USA)
18 March 2010
Both the
Time album and the
OH, YES!! album are now featured, in their entirety, on
Radio Rock Cafe. (Valleyfield, Canada)
13 March 2010
12 March 2010
Review of
OH, YES!! by
Ulf Backstrøm, creator of the progressive music treasure trove
Merlin Prog and jury member of the Prog Awards (Norway).
5 March 2010
3 March 2010
26 February 2010
22 February 2010
18 February 2010
12 February 2010
Review of the OH, YES!! album published in Wildy's World.(New York, USA)
11 February 2010
Interview with Isaac David Jr in Music Now at Junior's Cave. (Georgia, USA)
9 February 2010
6 February 2010
Ben is featured on the radio talk show "The Midsweep", run by
Rhubarb Radio (Birmingham, UK).
5 February 2010
The video for Your Eyes Are Like Fire was chosen as a featured video on Pongid magazine. (USA)
2 February 2010
Review of the "OH, YES!!" album by Derek Leduc of Lipstik Indie. (Canada)
31 January 2010
Interview with Jeffrey Rubin at the Banana Peel radio station. (Vancouver, Canada)
23 January 2010
The Daily Mail is now featured on
Banana Peel radio. (Vancouver, Canada)
22 January 2010
Until the coast is clear is now featured on the playlist of Skope Magazine.(USA)
21 January 2010
17 January 2010
16 January 2010
Ben's music has been selected for airplay on BandRadio.(California, USA)
14 January 2010
13 January 2010
9 January 2010
Several of Ben's tracks are available on IM Radio.(Illinois, USA)
8 January 2010
Ben will be featured on the radio show Laserdog's Music Hour on Sunday, 17th Jan, 6pm EST / 11pm GMT - present by composer Jason Bush.
7 January 2010
Ben appears in a special feature on Inanna Naked magazine, with a 8.2/10 rating for his "eclectic, diverse, heterogenous, emotional" music. (Las Palmas, Spain)
2 January 2010
28 December 2009
27 December 2009
26 December 2009
23 December 2009
OH, YES!! is now available in stores worldwide.
26 November 2009
Ben is now featured on Pongid music radio. (USA)
27 October 2009
iRadio LA, the world’s biggest Indie radio station, also voted "Internet Radio Station Of The Year" picked up two songs ("Your Eyes Are Like Fire" and "Tomorrow") and is putting them on rotation. (Los Angeles, USA)