The bassist and producer of
experimental music known as B.E.N has released his latest LP record,
“Be Easy Now.” The album contains six original instrumental
tracks for an approximate listening time nearing one hour. It has
been proudly published on the Crooked Pants Publishing independent
music label without the involvement of the corporate music industry.
Soothing, beautiful, and remarkable in its ability to carry the
listener on bass lines alone, “Be Easy” is a mellow, mindful
treatment of ambient music for 2017 and beyond.
Experimental music mastermind B.E.N has
cited as main artistic influences Claude Debussy, Brian Eno,
Radiohead, Bill Frisell, and Explosions in the Sky. While this
distinguished roster colors him as a listener of much scope and
perspective, the nods to Debussy and Eno have most in common with his
“Be Easy Now” LP is concerned. Expansive, expressive and lush
like the surface of an ocean, “Be Easy Now” is pleasant to hear
in nearly every imaginable circumstance.
More than just ambient music, though,
“Be Easy Now” is actually a work of meditation. Read from top to
bottom, the track listings form a peaceful mantra not unlike those
invoked by practitioners of yoga and Buddhism. They are, “Breathe
In,” “Deep End,” “Be,” “Easy,” “Now,” and “Breathe
Out.” Full-sounding yet minimalist in its composition, every sound
on the LP was emitted from a bass guitar.
B.E.N's music has been described as,
“the musical expression of regular, everyday life in a way that is
completely irregular.”
His current official bio names him as
Benjamin Ryan Williams, “a Texas-born, Atlanta-bred bassist with a
penchant for combining his influences into a solo experimental
musical style that is unlike any other.”
B.E.N has been a full-time musician
since 2010, and has been performing and recording bass with folk
icons, Indigo Girls, since 2012. He is also a first-call session
player in Atlanta for top-shelf hip-hop producers such as DJ Burn One
and DJ Toomp. B.E.N has stated that touring with a Grammy-winning
folk group while recording with Grammy-winning hip hop acts helped
him see “a common thread about harnessing the energy of originality
through music: the rules are man-made.”
“B.E.N composes music with nods to
folk, impressionism, and the avant-garde,” says the artist's
official bio. “The music is entirely comprised of sounds from the
bass guitar, exploring fresh and exciting boundaries for the
instrument. With thoughtful harmony, odd song structures, and opaque
timbres, listening to B.E.N's music is at times as similar to reading
poetry as it is listening to a performance. Oddity made accessible …
In a time when the music industry seems to have no rules, B.E.N has
even less.”
“Be Easy Now” by B.E.N is available
online worldwide beginning 28 January 2017. Get in early, ambient
music fans.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
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