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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Ben Christophers ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: The Spaces Between ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Indie ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 37:46 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 15-09-2004 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ ripper......: Just Team ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
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░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ size........: 50,8 MB ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ ░ track title time ▐▓▀▀
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▓████▓▌ 01. flowers drink upon the ground 05:01 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. good day for the hopeless 03:10 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. everybody stood to see us 03:48 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. river song 03:55 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. the drinking tree 04:23 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. cat skulls 00:55 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. a race between me and forever 02:35 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. fake eyelash 03:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. devil to kill 02:55 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. where the road bends 03:11 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. the spaces in between 04:20 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ben Christophers has come along way since his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ humble beginnings in Wolverhampton. With two ▓▌
▓████▓▌ critically acclaimed albums under his belt - "My ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Beautiful Demon" and "Spoonface", he is back and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ set to woo the critics and fans once again with his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ third offering - the beautiful and seductive new ▓▌
▓████▓▌ album, "The Spaces In Between" , which is due for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ release on 13 th September 2004. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Featuring his most innovative work to date "The ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Spaces In Between" shows Ben in a totally different ▓▌
▓████▓▌ light. "This is the most upbeat and optimistic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ record I've written," explains Ben. "The biggest ▓▌
▓████▓▌ difference between this one and my two previous ▓▌
▓████▓▌ albums is that I had so much material written, I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ had a really clear feeling for the sound a lot ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sooner because of it" ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Written and recorded between the Summer of 2003 and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ early 2004, it also marks the first time that Ben ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hasn't worked with producer/artist David Kosten of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Faultline. Instead, he enlisted the help of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ friend and engineer/co-producer Cenzo Townshend ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (Graham Coxon, Blur, Datsuns, Cranberrys, Echo & ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The Bunnymen). ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Drawing influences from David Bowie (" I love the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ way he moved between moods from album to album") , ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Kate Bush ("the way she used strings on 'hounds of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Love', they just bounced on the beat, it was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ genius.") Prince, Edith Piaf and Nina Simone. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ben played and arranged just about everything on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the album, recording the guitar and vocals at the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ same time, adding the other instruments afterwards ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to make the sound more rugged and loose. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "I didn't want to over step where I've come from, I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ just wanted to keep moving and to try new ▓▌
▓████▓▌ things," he says . "I wanted to see how it felt to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ keep as much fluidity in the sound as possible ▓▌
▓████▓▌ without adding too much instrumentation. Like on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 'Everybody Stood To see us' is mainly drums, piano ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and vocals with the odd flickering synth." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Ben has also been writing with the French chanteuse ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Francoise Hardy. Although the track doesn't ▓▌
▓████▓▌ feature on this album, Francoise has recorded one ▓▌
▓████▓▌ track they have written together, and they plan to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ write more in the future. "I wrote her a letter ▓▌
▓████▓▌ because I loved her voice and I wanted to do ▓▌
▓████▓▌ something different ." says Ben "It took me ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ages to get the wording right and not sound like a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ stalker! As it turned out she was familiar with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ my first album, so I was quite relieved. I had ▓▌
▓████▓▌ almost finished recording before we had written ▓▌
▓████▓▌ anything, which was a shame, but we have a few ▓▌
▓████▓▌ plans for possible things in the future." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Ben began writing songs at the tender age of five ▓▌
▓████▓▌ when his father bought him his first guitar. " I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ think I saw songwriting as an escape as a kid, a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bit of a fantasy," he says . "My first song was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in E-minor and lasted for about 30 seconds. It ▓▌
▓████▓▌ was an awesome feeling recording it on to this old ▓▌
▓████▓▌ reel to reel tape I had, I was completely ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fascinated by it and used it until it stopped ▓▌
▓████▓▌ working." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ He graduated on to the piano when his grandmother ▓▌
▓████▓▌ installed one in the family home. Much to his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ parents horror, Ben managed to detune it within ▓▌
▓████▓▌ days, falling in love with the way it rattled and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ choked. "I blame Tom Waits, he's the master of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ weirdness and fantasy. I thought I'd found the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Devil". ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ben's first and only job after leaving school, was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ working in a factory that distributed pornography. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "I met some of the most inspiring people ever, it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ was so bleak and so depressing it was fascinating," ▓▌
▓████▓▌ he explains. "I worked with people who were on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the run, just out of prison. I was kind of taken ▓▌
▓████▓▌ under their wing, because I was obviously ▓▌
▓████▓▌ completely out of my depth and so young. I think ▓▌
▓████▓▌ they thought I was a bit posh. I stuck it out for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ about a year but I had to leave, I was too afraid ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to stay there." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Ben emerged on to the music scene in 1999, with a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ series of low-key solo shows underneath a pizza ▓▌
▓████▓▌ parlour in the West End of London. Each night, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the shows were rammed, the audience riveted by his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performances of irresistible fragility and passion. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Shortly afterwards he signed to V2 releasing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ two albums, which was followed by extensive touring ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in the UK, Europe and Australia. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Ben signed to Cooking Vinyl for the world in early ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 2004. Which brings us neatly back to where we ▓▌
▓████▓▌ started. "The Spaces In Between" is compulsive ▓▌
▓████▓▌ listening. From the sweetly sinister "Flowers ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Drink Upon The Ground," and the shimmering ▓▌
▓████▓▌ simplicity of "Devil To Kill", to the laid back, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ happy-go-lucky feel of "Good Day For the Hopeless", ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and the mesmerizing "Riversong" the album resonates ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with life, passion and emotional genius. ▓▌
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