Ben Rusch


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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
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

03 February 2012 

"A Definitive Collection of Lucid Dreams" now immortalised on Audiosyncracy's "Best of 2011" list.

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 

Second live video with Jim Kroft - "Ulysses", shot in Berlin by Manuel Schaumberger.

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 

"Strange Tango" from the album Sonic Graffiti featured in the TransfoDesign Indie Go Go campaign.  Click here to have a look.

1 August 2011

New album "Acoustic Levitation" available from Magnatune.  Click here to listen.

20 June 2011

New album finished.  "Mercury".  Click here to listen.

20 May 2011

New album finished.  "Marbles".  Click here to listen.

16 April 2011

New video for the song "Robin Hood is currently unavailable".

10 April 2011 

Four songs on the latest episode of the Audiosyncracy podcast!!!  Your first chance to listen to songs from the new albums here: http://radio.jameyo.com/episodes.html

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

New music videos for the songs Out Of Time and Double Helix

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  

Review of Architects of Time published in the legendary German Musikzirkus Magazin.

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 

The Truth Of All Love now available from the bandcamp store.  Click here to listen.

19 January 2011  

Check out this review of The Truth Of All Love by Tim Whale of the Indie Bands Blog.

16 January 2011

Interview with Torodd Fuglesteg published on the Progarchives.

15 January 2011

The Truth Of All Love is now available on iTunes and amazon and eMusic.

9 January 2011 

"The Story Of What Happened" album makes Audiosyncracy's Best of 2010 list.

8 January 2011 

Honorable mention in the 2010 Great Lakes Songwriting Contest for the song "Time To Go" from the Architects of Time album.

4 January 2011 

Number 1 on the Indie Bands Blog Band Of The Week chart.

25 December 2010  

Architects of Time album nominated for BEST FOREIGN RECORD at the international 2010 Prog Awards.

16 December 2010

New album: The Truth Of All Love.  A collaboration with the incredible English poet Simon Charlton.

15 December 2010 

Sonic Graffiti released on amazon.

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

Sonic Graffiti released on iTunes.

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  

Band of the Week on the Indie Bands Blog.

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 

Very neat interview with Tim Whale, one of the great soldiers in the fight to save music.  Among other things, he writes a proper broadsheet-style blog, runs the Indie Bands Blog and created a site devoted solely to indie music videos!

23 November 2010  

Check out this very nicely written article on the Indie Bands Blog, courtesy of the efforts of Tim Whale.

21 November 2010

Sonic Graffiti album released on Magnatune.  Click here to listen.

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  

The song "Where The Wild Things Are" off the Architects of Time album wins a Runner-Up Prize in the 2010 Nashville Tennessee Song Contest.

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 

On the Amazing Folk and Roots show, hosted by Frankie Ward.

19 June 2010

On the Prograchives.

9 June 2010 

First review of Architects of Time album on Lipstik Indie

8 June 2010 

Radio debut of Adam and Eve  on Captain SIB's radio show AiiRadio.net

7 June 2010

Official worldwide digital release date of the new album Architects of Time

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 

Ben to join the roster of artists at New Groove Music.

26 April 2010 

Covering Cold Feet With Warm Sheets featured on the 10th anniversary of the Audiosyncracy radio show as well as the 50th episode of the wonderful Audiosyncracy podcast (El Paso, USA)

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 

Ray by Ray featured on the Indie Launchpad podcast. (London, UK)

7 April 2010 

Parachute of Sound debuts on Progressive Positivity Radio.

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 

Your Eyes Are Like Fire featured on the DigiVegas podcast.  (Las Vegas, USA)

24 March 2010 

Album number 18 - instrumental album "4" - completed.

21 March 2010 

Your Eyes Are Like Fire featured on Jason Bush's Laserdog's Music Hour radio talk show. (Atlanta, USA)

20 March 2010 

Fissile Isle featured on the Dark Compass podcast.  (London, UK)

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 

The OH, YES!! album is featured on the Next Music Blog. (New York, USA)

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 

Ben is the BAND OF THE WEEK at Leaf Pile Radio (East coast USA).

3 March 2010 

Ben is featured in the Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal magazine (Brazil).

26 February 2010 

Until the Coast Is Clear featured on the Dark Compass Podcast (UK).

22 February 2010 

Until the Coast Is Clear featured on the Indie Launchpad Podcast (UK)

18 February 2010 

Artist Pick of The Week at NRG Energy Theory Management. (Baltimore, USA)

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 

Ben's music will be featured on Insomnia Radio UK. (UK)

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 

New live video for Until The Coast Is Clear and new video for As Good As It Gets.

17 January 2010 

Interview on the radio show Laserdog's Music Hour. (Atlanta, USA)

16 January 2010 

Ben's music has been selected for airplay on BandRadio.(California, USA)

14 January 2010 

Your Eyes Are Like Fire and A Small Selection Of Things receive honorable mentions in the 2009 SongDoor International Songwriting Competition. (Nashville, USA)

13 January 2010 

Until The Coast Is Clear will be featured on The Songwriter's Network. (USA)

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 

Ben's music is now featured on Underworld Mix Radio.

28 December 2009 

Ben is now a featured artist on Leaf Pile Radio.

27 December 2009 

Ben's music will be featured on Radio Crystal Blue. (Brooklyn, USA)

26 December 2009 

Ben's tracks are now featured on Indie Life Radio (Maine, USA)

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)

Architects of Time album nominated in BEST FOREIGN RECORD category at the international 2010 Prog Awards

 

July 2010 article in Die Rheinpfalz newspaper

Architects of Time review on Merlin Prog

Band of the Week - Leaf Pile Radio

Artist of the Month - Anakina Musica


Finalist placing in international songwriting contest "Expose Yourself" 2010

OH, YES!! review in IAE Magazine

OH, YES!! review by Ulf Backstrøm of Merlin Prog

OH, YES!! review on Wildy's World 

Architects of Time review on Lipstik Indie

 
OH, YES!! review on Lipstik Indie

NRG Energy Theory Management Artist Pick of The Week: "The Great Ben Rusch"

OH, YES!! on the Next Music Blog 

Article in Die Rheinpfalz by Andreas Keller


 
*** 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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