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There's More to Life Than This
Ben Westbeech (Strictly Rhythm)
Release date: 16.09.2011
Music Style: House
Article No.: 3000053512
Singer, songwriter, DJ and producer Ben Westbeech presents There's More To Life Than This - a soulful,house music-inspired summer gem.There's More To Life Than This is Ben's long-overdue second album. Having first made his mark back in 2006, Ben was then signed by Gilles Peterson to his fledgling Brownswood Recordings label. His 2007 debut album, Welcome To The Best Years Of Your Life, received a glowing reception ? however, its success also bought expectationand growing anxieties and following its release Ben spent several months uninspired and directionless, lost in musical limbo... Later, illustrious house label Strictly Rhythm approached Ben and suggested he record for them. Inspired by the fresh challenge, he started work on what would become There's More To Life Than This.Recordings took place in Berlin, New York, London, Bristol, Munich, Stockholm and Stuttgart over the past 12 months, and saw Ben team up with an impressive roll-call of collaborators, including; Motor City Drum Ensemble, Redlight, Georg Levin, Chocolate Puma, Midland, Soul Clap and Henrik Schwarz. The resulting record marries finelyhoned songwriting with the energy and spark of house for a cultured yet fresh album. Opening chapter The Book is followed by uplifting, disco-fuelled, weekend-starting anthem, Something For The Weekend. Other highlights include the darker Falling, which, accompanied by remixes from The 2 Bears, Deetron and Dark Sky, was anearlier single. Ben displays a social conscious on both Same Thing and Justice, and takes things deeper still for the Detroit-tinged, pulsing and biographical, Stronger. Sugar and Let Your Feelings Go are bittersweet love songs and the sun sets with the gentle,understated, yet powerfully affecting Summer's Loss. Reflecting on the record, Ben says; ?I feel like I've got my mojo back, like I've found myself - I feel excited about music again.?S?nger, Songschreiber, DJ und Produzent Ben Westbeech pr?sentiert sein neues Album ?There's More To Life Than This? ? ein beseeltes, von House-Musik inspiriertes Juwel.?There's More To Life Than This? ist Ben's mehr als ?berf?lliges zweites Album, nach seinem begeistert aufgenommen 2007er Debut ?Welcome To The Best Years Of Your Life? auf Gilles Peterson renommierten Brownswood Label. Die Aufnahmen zum neuen Album fanden ?ber die letzten 12 Monate in Berlin, New York, London, Bristol, M?nchen, Stockholm und Stuttgart statt und beinhalteten eine beeindruckende Liste an Kollaborationen und Produzenten, u.a. Motor City Drum Ensemble, Soul Clap, Henrik Schwarz, Georg Levin, Chocolate Puma und Rasmus Faber. Die daraus resultierende Platte verbindet fein geschliffenes Songwriting mit der Energie und dem Funken von House zu einem der interessantesten Alben unserer Zeit.Dem wundervollen Opener ?The Book? folgt die herausragende, disko-erf?llte Hymne auf das Wochenende ?Something For The Weekend?. Andere H?hepunkte umfassen das dunklere ?Falling? und das ergreifend ruhige ?Inflections?. Mit den beiden Tracks ?Same Thing? und ?Justice? beweist Ben sein soziales Bewusstsein und vertieft dieses weiter auf dem Detroit-inspirierten, pulsierenden und biographischen ?Stronger?. Dagegen sind ?Sugar? und ?Let Your Feelings Go? bitters??e Liebessongs, und die Sonne bricht bei dem sanften, schlichten, und trotzdem kraftvoll ergreifenden ?Summer's Loss? endg?ltig ?ber das Album herein.
Tracks on this Album
1 | Ben Westbeech | The Book | 00:04:29 |  |
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 | 2 | Ben Westbeech | Something for the Weekend | 00:04:31 | |
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3 | Ben Westbeech | Falling | 00:04:20 | |
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4 | Ben Westbeech | Same Thing | 00:03:20 | |
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5 | Ben Westbeech | Justice | 00:06:12 | |
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6 | Ben Westbeech | Stronger | 00:07:20 | |
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7 | Ben Westbeech | Inflections | 00:05:33 | |
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8 | Ben Westbeech | Sugar | 00:02:42 | |
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9 | Ben Westbeech | Let Your Feelings Go | 00:05:48 | |
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10 | Ben Westbeech | Butterflies | 00:04:36 | |
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11 | Ben Westbeech | Summer's Loss | 00:04:17 | |
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