Ben Collins
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A piano, a boy, a computer. 88 keys, vocal chords, electricity and a kaleidoscope mind.
Enough of that . . . self-promotion makes me queasy.
If you're willing to explore it, the key to my subconscious is available. A Skeleton Key. It will unlock all the doors, although you have to struggle with some of the bolts. A slow journey into madness all in a 30 minute album-ette! (so-called because too big for an EP but too small for a proper album).
I used to record as Michael Collins. That is what my parents called me. It's already been claimed twenty times over so I decided to take up this one. Songs I wrote as Michael Collins are relics. A collection of some of those songs (called 'Relic'; purely coincidence I assure you) is available.
Once upon a time I put out a disc called Fixate. Fixate was OK I guess but some bits of it pissed me off and I had a bad attack of low self-esteem and leprosy (mostly low self-esteem) so I don't talk about Fixate anymore OK?Band/artist history
1983: Born
1987: Taped myself singing songs into my Fischer-Price tape recorder.
1989: Began learning piano; took to it like a duck to water.
1990-1999: My career as a classical pianist, including many Kiwanus Music Festival awards, RCM Certificates up the Grade 9, harmony and theory classes, summer music camps, piano students of my own, and monetary awards for composing instrumental piano solo pieces
1999: First started writing things other than piano instrumentals (ie songs to sing!)
2001: 10 Song Demo
2003: Fixate (35 copies made: all gone!)
2004: Fiddling about with Cakewalk Home Studio, a good omni-directional mic, and Fruityloops.Have you performed in front of an audience?I give 'living room concerts' sometimes. I really love it when I do though; maybe some day I will venture forth from this place and actually put on a real rockin'show. Probably not though.
Your musical influences
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Mr. Ebby, when will you ever put more of your music on your soundclick site? I go there every couple of weeks and it's always the same --- a promise that more will come, but it never has! *sob sob sob*
;) Thanks for the comments. Checkin' out those links straight away.
I'm proud of Darkest Star, sonically. I've tried to rewrite the lyrics dozens of times, but it never works. The song is what it is, and I must love it for what it is, like an intense Catholic who has learned to accept a homosexual child, perhaps!oh! and I put some of my friends' music on here too, and my brother's been putting stuff up too. ..
http://www.soundclick.com/annalee
http://www.soundclick.com/kevinbretthey mister.. . . I like your voice when you're singing in a higher range.. .
Darkest Star is a great song btw.. . populist me? never!Rey Valera, Snow Falls is one of the songs dearest to my heart . . . thank you.All comments (10)
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Very nice stuff, I like piano based pop/rock because I attempt playing piano and it's just harder to find, and you do a great job creating piano based music, I liked every song.