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| 2006 | love;defenestrated (Bearos057) 2005 £2.50 |  |
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Literally meaning 'love thrown out the window', this EP is a mournful tale of the death of love in the new year, delivered with Ben's wry sense of tragedy. Will have resonance with any one that's ever split up with anyone ever. "Dark modern folk sung with beguiling West Midlands inflections. Folk melancholia haunted by the shadows of Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and The Smiths." Joe Murphy, blang! |
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| Tracklisting: Fly No More, Flee, Poppy, Highwire, Backs Turned. | ||
| 2005 | Babybearos003 2005 (Available as free download from www.bearos.co.uk) |  |
| Curated by Ben, this features two of the artists who’ve played his residency Bohemian Jukebox. Ben contributes the dark-folk picked power-chord song "Atmosphere". Chris Jones breaks the usual singer & songwriter mold with his raga style blues on "Fuckers". Gav Dunn dusts away winter's cobwebs and heralds the spring with "Flip Flop", a eerie sunny song which would be just as at home in the film "The City of the Lost Children" as is in your disc player. | ||
| 2004 | Christmas Folk & Old December's Bearness (Bearos056 ) 2004 £5.00 (sold out) |  |
| Ben's long term unlikely collaborators, Bentley Rhythm Ace, step out from behind the mixing desk to contribute their distinctive sound to Ben Calvert's vocals. Features string arrangements from Grandmaster Gareth from Misty's Big Adventure with contributions from the band's string section. A solo acoustic cover of the Mark Hunter song "Homespun Song" also features in it's demo form. | ||
| 2003 | The Leafy Underground
CD LP (Bearos045) 2003 Packaged in slim line DVD case £8 |
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Features band tracks with Kieran Petvin, (Drums), and Gordon Maguire, (Bass & Keyboards), recorded by Bentley Rhythm Aces Drive D and Fuzz Townshend. There are also solo finger-picked compositions, and songs from sessions in St Mary's Church, Moseley, Birmingham and the Royal Academy of Music in London, with piano and brass. |
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| Track listing: Basement Song, Sitting Ducks, Hours Fall, The Leafy Underground, Counting Carriages, Safer Than Houses, The Drowning, Jack Jones, Ides Of March, Starlight, No Lullaby, Last Orders. | ||
| For reviews click here | ||
| 2001 | The State of Travel 7" EP (Bearos 020) 2001 £2.50 |  |
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Described as 'a folk-tinged thing of understated wonder', this 4 song disc was recorded in 2 hours at the EMI studio at The Royal Academy of Music, with jazz students from the academy. |
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| Track listing: Rollin' City, Counting Carriages, Leeds for the Winter, Not my Road. | ||
| For reviews click here | ||
| All of these records can be bought from www.bearos.co.uk | ||