The Music and Ramblings of Ben Drake

Well, Here it is. The official release of I Don’t Live Here is up. The tracks are:

1. I Don’t Live Here (02:20)
2. Arrival (03:05)
3. My Friends (The Ben and Paul Show Theme) (03:12)
4. What Would You Do? (03:29)
5. The Place Where I Lost My Mind (03:29)
6. Ring (01:27)
7. Shout (02:52)
8. Can’t Be Expressed (03:01)
9. This Fire (02:18)
10. Other Planets (01:03)
11. Wolf Lake (03:36)
12. Will and Wont (02:47)
13. Sky (03:53)
14. The River (03:14)
15. I Give Up (02:17)
16. Things Are Better (03:36)
17. The Art of Failure (03:54)

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Big thanks to MatthewTheGreat and Rattan for being the first ones to review it!

Alrighty, It’s done! I’ve finally completed it! It should be available on Jamendo as soon as it’s done processing, Which might take a while, so I made a torrent. The early release is available here: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2324865 and Here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4743823

I’m new to the torrent thing so tell me if you can’t get it to work.

Well, Here I am again. Almost done with 75% of an album and the rest is songs that I can’t seem to finish. Oh, I’ve got some great beginnings but expounding upon them is the hard part. Also lyrics aren’t coming to me as easily as they have for the past few months and I’m not sure why. Maybe I just got them out of my system and now I need some more problems to express through music. As much as the struggles of being alive and dealing with life can get to me, they do inspire good music. Usually. And the songs I do have completely done are in rather a jumbled mess. I really need to find some way to organize them to know exactly how much stuff I’ve got on this album. I used to use the playlist feature in iTunes because it gives the total time of a playlist. For some reason I cant seem to find another program that does this and I’ve already dumped iTunes for Songbird(a much better player by the way). Oh well. I’ll figure something out.

Also I am working on an unnamed metal project. I have done metal music in the past but this is a bit different.

As much as I love my M-Audio Producer USB Mic, it can be problematic. Although, it’s never broken before. Unfortunately it did today. Actually two days ago but, M-Audio online tech support is pretty useless so I called them on the phone after I waited three days for an e-mail response. That being said I was only on hold for half an hour or so. So I shipped my baby of to their repair department and hopefully I get it back soon. I’ve got so many ideas I need to get out that my brain hurts. I have some good songs finished but I’m going to keep them secret ’til the album releases. Hopefully you’ll like them. :^D

The Intermittently Elated,
- Ben Drake

Yeah, I wrote a new song today. I’m not sure I like all of the lyrics to this one because they’re too literal and occasionally unclear at points but I dont really care at the moment. I usually hate poppy, sappy stuff but I cant really complain since I wrote it.

Lyrics:

She came to him
brokenhearted
you could see it
in her eyes

(more…)

Hey guys! Apparantly I have a blog on Jameno. D’ja know that? I didn’t. But I figure, as long as I have one I might as well use it.

So there is a ton of music in the works. I probably already have an albums worth of half finished songs and even more if I count the ones I dont plan on ever finishing. I have however got a new account on Cherrypeel.

There isnt a whole lot up there but what is up there is pretty new. Also one of my side projects is The Ben and Paul Show which you can find over at Blip.tv.

I don’t have much to put up now but here is a song from the new album “I Don’t Live Here” called “Things Are Better.

- Benny D