Ben Rusch

Ben is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in London (UK) who has released 20 (twenty) 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, Manifest Media, Music for Film and Television, Soundiva (Italy), Music Supervisor and Hook Music, and is a member of the YM International Network of Composers.

Ben was a Finalist in the 2010 international songwriting competition Expose Yourself with the song "Your Eyes Are Like Fire". He was awarded two honorable mentions in the Nashville songwriting contest SongDoor 2009 for the songs "A Small Selection Of Things" and "Your Eyes Are Like Fire". Moreoever, he was a semi-finalist in the 2010 UK Songwriting Contest with the song "Until The Coast Is Clear".

Ben was also a finalist in the German Rock Music Competition, won second prize in the Southern German Rock Music Competition, as well as winning the South-Western German Rock Music Contest. Ben twice won first regional prizes in the national young musicians classical music competition (piano), as well as receiving two awards from the city of Kaiserslautern, Germany, for outstanding achievement in the performance of contemporary classical music (piano). At Oxford University, Ben held the Sir Adrian Boult instrumental scholarship for two years.

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 20 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, BandRadio, Radio 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.

• Time

• Rock, Pop
• Ben Rusch
• 06/16/2009
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Liner Notes: All music & lyrics written by Ben Rusch All instruments (piano & keyboards, guitars, bass, bagpipes, double bass, tin-whistle, violin) played by Ben Rusch Recorded in Belsize Park, London (UK), and in Schopp (Germany) by Ben Rusch

1. Nocturnal Flight
2. A Small Selection of Things I Would Do If Your Soul Got Trapped...
3. Your Eyes Are Like Fire
4. Silence
5. Time
6. Hobo's Brief Moment of Moral Victory...
7. 6 Am
8. Northern Lights
9. Sbent
10. Don't Walk a Mile In My Shoes...
11. The Heart of Julian
12. Pokerface
13. Last Picnic

• Oh, Yes!!

• Rock, Folk
• Ben Rusch
• 12/15/2009
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Liner Notes: Recorded July - December 2009 in Belsize Park, London, UK. All music written by Ben Rusch. All lyrics written by Ben Rusch except where indicated. All songs performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ben Rusch. Piano, keyboards, guitars, bass guitar, percussion, flutes, bagpipes played by Ben Rusch. Lyrics for "the ghost of you is the heart of me" written by Simon Charlton. Lyrics for "Daily Mail", "Maud's Ecstasy at the High School Prom", and for "The Lament of Catskin Arnold" written by Ben Rusch and Anamitra Deb. The cover artwork ("streaks at dusk") was kindly provided by Shreyans Bhansali. Please visit www.shreyansbhansali.com for more information and visual delights. More info on the songs and on Ben's work is available at http://benrusch.com. Contact Ben at ben@benrusch.com

1. Fissile Isle
2. The Daily Mail (Ben Rusch and Anamitra Deb)...
3. Until the Coast Is Clear
4. Ray By Ray
5. Ode to Your Body
6. I'm Still Here (At Least I Think So)...
7. As Good As It Gets
8. Metaphor Pilot
9. The Lament of Catskin Arnold (Ben Rusch and Anamitra Deb)...
10. The Ghost of You Is the Heart of Me (Ben Rusch and Simon Charlton)...
11. Blue Forest
12. Maud's Ecstasy At the High School Prom (Ben Rusch and Anamitra Deb)...
13. Parachute of Sound
14. The Pop Diva Trajectory
15. Bass Guitars In Heaven
16. The End of Time
17. The Masochist Song (Bonus Track)...

• Architects of Time

• Rock, Folk
• Ben Rusch
• 06/07/2010
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Liner Notes: Recorded from January to June 2010 in Belsize Park, London. All music written by Ben Rusch All lyrics written by Ben Rusch All instruments played by Ben Rusch, except viola on Architects of Time, In A Thousand Years and Time To Go - played by Bimbi Urquhart (c) Ben Rusch, 2010

1. Out Of Time
2. Robin Hood Is Currently Unavailable...
3. Architects Of Time
4. Where The Wild Things Are
5. Double Helix
6. Adam and Eve
7. In A Thousand Years
8. The Thought Of You Is New
9. Hand Me A Jet Pack
10. Where To Put That Foot
11. Covering Cold Feet With Warm Sheets...
12. Time to Go