(Oct 2024) The 'Hey Teacher' EP released on Spotify, Amazon. Apple and YouTube etc, with four songs from The Void Part 2: Cetacea. Search for 'benjamin_sanguine', all lowercase with underscore between.
(Aug 2024) The Void: Part 2 Cetacea out now on Bandcamp for streaming and download. You will also find part 1 there, released back in May.
(July 2024) Svelte Skelter EP from The Void part 1 available from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and YouTube. Search for 'benjamin_sanguine', all lowercase with underscore between.
(June 2024) I hope I won't regret the oversharing, but I have just posted a selection of my earliest song recordings from 1996-97 onto Soundcloud. There are more I want to share from 98 and 99, and then 2000 to when I started getting a bit more serious about it. Hopefully you will enjoy some early gems.
(May 2024) The Void: Part 1 Cygnus I finally got around to releasing the album I have been promising since last autumn. At least part of it. It got so massive that I thought it constituted a double album (in the style of old fashioned records, two suites of roughly an hour in duration, each with effectively an A and B side of 5 or 6 songs). I then made the choice to separate the release of parts 1 & 2, delaying part 2 until August. The title and album art is inspired by a dream, which you can read more about on Bandcamp where you can also stream and download.
(July 2023) I composed theme music to the podcast On The Gallery Floor, find the full version on my SoundCloud page here. Find the podcast by searching for 'On The Gallery Floor' in your preferred podcast app.
(Feb 2023) "HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC" (15mins) / "TAPE MUSIC FOR HOME KILLING" 8mins) two videos of improvised noise on YouTube
Big love to Mr Keith Teeth for inspiring me with his video uploads of modified toy sounds.
From childhood choirboy and school play solos, music has been part of my life from an early age. From the late 90s until the mid 2000s I was in a band I formed with Justin Duance called Sanguine. We each played guitar and sang, alternating lead and harmonies. We also played other instruments and gadgets as we came across them. Occasionally the duo was expanded to a trio with the addition of David Ratcliffe (bass), Duncan Ward (wierdness) and Joe Parfitt (drums). In 2001 the Sanguine guys (including Duncan) joined forces with Portsmouth-based 'Space Honk' duo negative PANDA (featuring Dave, above, and Mr Keith Teeth www.mrteethreviews.com),for a one-off performance at The Barn. Justin and I played acoustic gigs in London and recorded several demos. We still make music together when we get together a couple of times a year, revisiting the old songs and writing new ones. Maybe we'll even play a big comeback gig someday.
Since then I have recorded and performed solo as benjamin_sanguine, DJed as Famous Pizzas, and recorded more experimental work as f_p wiseacre influenced by electronic music and hip hop. After forming a trio with Matt Douglas to play at the Klinker in Dalston in 2002, I collaborated with Duncan Ward (aka New Low) as Samneric, an experimental and often site-specific improvisation duo. This lead to the monthly CDR album series Burnt Offerings in 2004-5, a limited number of copies of which are available on request.
EPs on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music and other streaming services from most recent back in time:
Surf Check EP
Oh My Beautiful One EP
The Terminal EP
Platinum and Diamonds EP
South Downs EP
The title track is the 'A side', and what I think is the most 'radio-friendly' song on the album; and then a few other curious album tracks, something fun, a more extended composition. Eventually I might get to the stage of having outtakes from albums which can be B-side rarities. That would require me to be more selective about album tracks and not release massive numbers of songs at one time. Well, we can dream can't we.
Search for 'benjamin_sanguine' (all lower case with an underscore between) in your prefered online listening service.
Albums on Bandcamp
The Void: Part 1 Cygnus (May 2024) & Part 2 Cetacea (Aug 2024) more songs, sounds and noises about life, death, loves and laughs.
The Pilgrimage (Oct 2023) what can I say, another anthology of heart and hurt.
Boss Of Me (May 2023) yet another album of quirky ditties.
REPRO_DECON (Jan 2023) another album of new sounds and songs.
Hidden Treasure (2022) a new collection of songs, mostly created since 2020.
Spend and Turtle (2021) guitar improvisations - FREE
Decomposing (2021) album by experimental DJ alter-ego f_p wiseacre - FREE
South Downs (2020) a collection of songs put together during the pandemic lockdowns
other sound stuff here: soundcloud.com/benjamin-whitaker
Ben played a selection of covers and his own compositions at St Peter's Vintage Fete, Curdridge, Hampshire, 11 August 2018.
An improvised drawing intepreted in sound
audio also features on album 'SouthDowns' (2021)
A stop motion collage with soundtrack
Images and text from Financial Times Weekend Magazine 25/04/2020.
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