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Ben Rusch
Meet Ben Rusch
Ben is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in London (UK). His creative output is nothing short of awe-inspiring and sheds new light on what it means to be 'prolific'. To be more specific, Ben has released 19 full-length albums and we are keenly awaiting album number 20, which is in the pipeline and coming soon.
Apart from his ceaseless creativity, Ben also holds the rather unique distinction of winning rave reviews and critical praise from experts all over the musical spectrum, having his songs simultaneously featured on radio shows with ambient instrumental music, folk music, pop music, rock music, and heavy metal programming.
Ben is currently the FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH on the Italian Music Blog Anakina Musica. Ben is also the BAND OF THE WEEK at Leaf Pile Radio (March 2010), the ARTIST PICK OF THE WEEK of NRG Theory Management (February 2010) and a WEEKLY FEATURED ARTIST in Music Now, Junior's Cave online magazine (February 2010).
Ben's songs received honorable mentions in the Nashville songwriting contest SongDoor 2009. 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.
Listeners of his instrumental tracks will have realised that Ben's piano skills are rather in a league of their own - so it is hardly surprising that he boasts multiple classical music awards and at Oxford University held the Sir Adrian Boult instrumental scholarship.
In the meantime, Ben played several hundred live performances and was picked up by magazines and broadsheet newspapers around the world, such as 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, as well as Merlin Prog and the Next Music Blog. He was also one of the artists selected for the "Hot Seat" feature presented by Los Angeles A&R veteran Holly Hutchison (Capitol Records and Atlantic Records). Ben will also grace the next issue if IAE Magazine and Progression Magazine.
Songs from the 19 albums have been played on major terrestrial radio stations (SWR, RPR, Rockland Radio, Germany) and on a large number of internet radio stations, e.g. the Audiosyncracy show on KTEP radio El Paso, Progressive Positivity Radio, Midsweep at Rhubarb Radio, Insomnia Radio UK, Maximum Threshold, 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, IM Radio, Radio Rock Cafe and mvyradio. They have also been featured multiple times on some of the most highly rated music podcasts in the world, including the Dark Compass podcast, the Indie Launchpad podcast and the DigiVegas podcast.
Ben Rusch Websites:
web: www.benrusch.com
myspace: www.myspace.com/musicwithinstruments
