Ben Kritikos - ProfilesArchive

About Me

The woman I love says:

"Ben Kritikos is an American expatriate musician living in Ireland. He has been living and playing in Dublin for the past five years, on his own and with bands from a close group of his friends (Jenny Lindfors, Aidan, Reader’s Wives, Robotnik, etc.)

Ben Kritikos takes musical inspiration from all around: whether it be reading Samuel Beckett, travelling around the world with no money, learning how to grow a herb garden in his flat, or being horrified at the newspapers."

This lovely person says:

"I have a huge respect for Ben’s musical work ethic - he plays because that’s what he was made to do. In fact, he’s totally useless at everything else. Just kidding. But, it is as simple as that - Ben is one of those artists whose heart might stop beating if he gave up creating."

Aoife McElwain, The Indie Hour (indiehour.wordpress.com 2007)

"So Long, Amerika!" video by Anna Jacob

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/7/2006
Band Website: whitehouse.gov
Band Members: I do what I can on my own, with what I’ve got. But sometimes, when I’m lucky, I’m joined by Aidan, Anna Jacob, Jenny Lindfors and others.
Influences: Many. The trick is to use them wisely.
Sounds Like: ben kritikos (uncannily so)
Record Label: i'd like to make records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Drowning Women

This song was inspired by Sir John Everett Millais' painting "Ophelia" (attached)...Recording this song was a lot of fun. It happened entirely spontaneosly. It was half-written, and I thou...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:44:00 PST

So Long, Amerika!

You may have noted the seemingly out of place "k" in the title of this song. Don't worry, I know how to spell. It's intentional. Without getting into boring politics or social commentary, ...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:33:00 PST

Cairo

A few months ago, it occurred to me that I hadn't written anything in a very long time. For the next few weeks, this innocent little realisation became a sort of panic that completely distracted...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

Self-Portrait With a Hammer

Like a lot of things I write, it started as a sort of poem. It didn't work as a poem, so, like a lot of things I write, it became a song. I don't know what to say about this song. It's abo...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:08:00 PST

The Measure of All Things

I was reading Alan Watts' The Way of Zen, which has a lot of footnotes for the devoted students of Sinology. One such footnote dealt with the Sanskrit root of the latin mens, from which we deriv...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:03:00 PST

Scorched Earth

I wrote this song at the beginning of March '07, on the first day I moved back into my flat after spending two months living, rehearsing and recording with Aidan and Jenny. It was the first song...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:55:00 PST

i uploaded new music again.

yes i did.
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:30:00 PST

i want to learn more about electronic music.

yes i do.
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:48:00 PST

the pope

last night when daniel and i went to spar to buy jaffa cakes, he pointed to the cover of the irish times: POPE SAYS MATERIALISM AND SCIENCE NOT THE ANSWER funny, that, coming from the sole shareh...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:14:00 PST

band names

here is my contribution to the "the"-prefixed band name canon:the reaching out and touching of some onethe yak's hair memorialthe swift and the gulliverthe shit you had to take (var.: the shit you had...
Posted by Ben Kritikos on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:10:00 PST