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ben bleecker

...and you can talk to the aliens

About Me

hi. half of the songs from the cd "eight songs" are posted here.

i record these songs whenever i have sufficient inspiration to sit through a hundred hours of production time. i don't work with other musicians, and i don't perform publicly. this profile and the ben bleecker site are the only promotion i do.

enjoy. add me as a friend, and consider buying the "eight songs" cd or downloading mp3s of some of the songs on it. thanks!

mp3s of eight songs from itunes.

clips of other songs, lyrics, etc. on the ben bleecker site.

buy the cd from cd baby!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/28/2005
Band Website: benbleecker.com
Influences: beatles, beck, jeff buckley, miles davis, grant green, jimi hendrix, mark hollis, charles ives, morphine, radiohead, rolling stones, talk talk, the the, traffic, tom waits, the who, frank zappa

other things too.
Sounds Like: you tell me.
Record Label: sharp eleven
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

notes on "going away"

"going away" is about my friend rob wolfford, who died in the spring of 2002. rob was "going away" the whole eight years i knew him, and everyone's efforts to keep him around were doomed to fail. as i...
Posted by ben bleecker on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:49:00 PST

notes on "it'll be all right"

"it'll be all right" is about september 11. early september 2001 was a dark time for me. psychologically, i wasn't right. my girlfriend at the time was leaving new york after an amazing, wonderful su...
Posted by ben bleecker on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:03:00 PST

notes on "janine"

i wanted a unique sound for the main distorted guitar noise, so i recorded each note in the chord individually - each string. i varied the rythm a bit from one string to the next to keep them ind...
Posted by ben bleecker on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:25:00 PST

the music of ben bleecker

looking forward to introducing more people to "the music of ben bleecker". if you like it, you can acquire individual mp3s on itunes and elsewhere, and you can buy the album "eight songs" from cdbaby....
Posted by ben bleecker on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:35:00 PST