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		<title>Trust EP &#124; Download</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Visitors,
Here is part of an album I have been working on, you can download it here. This album is a work-in-progress, and I try to keep it updated (Note: Last updated June 17th), so that means there might be a new song or the song might sound different since last time you heard it.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="announcement_post"><p>Hello Visitors,</p>
<p>Here is part of an album I have been working on, you can <a title="Trust EP" href="http://bensimaginaryband.com/mp3/4%20songs/Ben%27s%20Imaginary%20Band%20-%20Trust%20EP%20%5b2009%5d.zip">download it here</a>. This album is a work-in-progress, and I try to keep it updated (Note: Last updated June 17th), so that means there might be a new song or the song might sound different since last time you heard it.</p>
<p>The download includes lyrics, artwork, and currently seven songs.</p>
<p><a href="http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/bens-imaginary-band-trust-ep-front.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-513" title="bens-imaginary-band-trust-ep-front" src="http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/bens-imaginary-band-trust-ep-front-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Here are a few reviews, thank you to everyone who has taken the time to write about my music.:</p>
<p>Romvari&#8217;s talent is undeniable, even eye-opening. His songs are lush with dreamy melodies, mellowed out, sluggish glaze, heart-felt lyrics, and even melancholy (on the song &#8220;Emerald Dream Thief,&#8221; which somehow reminds us a bit of Melpo Mene), but in a beautiful way, like artists such as Nick Drake and Elliott Smith were so good at. - <a href="http://www.indierockcafe.com/2010/04/one-man-band-series-bens-imaginary-band.html">IndieRockCafe</a></p>
<p>Trust EP is a surreal-sounding album, with hints of melodies which seem to transport you into your own world. The band&#8217;s name may be a bit contrasting with the album&#8217;s name (Trust + Imaginary seems to cancel each other out), but once you hear it, you&#8217;ll definitely appreciate it. -<a href="http://www.frostclick.com/wp/index.php/2009/12/23/trust-ep-by-bens-imaginary-band-songs-that-tickle-your-imagination/">FrostClick</a></p>
<p>Ben writes beautiful, dreamy acoustic indie pop ballads that are equally reminiscent of Seven Swans-era Sufjan Stevens and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Acoustic guitar and lullaby-sweet lyrics are accented by glockenspiel flourishes.-<a href="http://www.musicalpairings.com/2009/10/new-music-buffet-feat-wiretree-cold.html">MusicalPairings</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to thank Eric Chaves for his drumming work on this album so far (I&#8217;m expecting to finish around the end of summer.)</p>
<p>so long.</p>
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		<title>Interested In Making A Music Video?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the title pretty much says all I was thinking of. But basically, if anyone is into animation of any kind (I myself am a fan of stop-motion, 3D, and pretty much anything hand-drawn) I could use your help. You could choose any song you like, and make the video about whatever you feel like. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the title pretty much says all I was thinking of. But basically, if anyone is into animation of any kind (I myself am a fan of stop-motion, 3D, and pretty much anything hand-drawn) I could use your help. You could choose any song you like, and make the video about whatever you feel like. If you need help coming up with some ideas, I could try and come up with some with you.</p>
<p>The video doesn&#8217;t necessary have to be animation either, if you have some other idea I&#8217;d love to see that too. Ideally, I&#8217;d like to have one for each of my songs.. it would help me get my music a bit more exposure I think, if done right. So anyway, if I get some replies, I will create a list here of which songs are being worked on, and by who, and hopefully might even get some collaboration going. Bye!</p>
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		<title>Virtual Concert</title>
		<link>http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/?p=367</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking of an idea recently, in which I&#8217;d record live acoustic versions of all my songs, from my first album as well as the latest. I&#8217;m going to try doing this next week (since that&#8217;s the earliest I can get my hands on a decent camera.) hopefully it will turn out nice, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking of an idea recently, in which I&#8217;d record live acoustic versions of all my songs, from my first album as well as the latest. I&#8217;m going to try doing this next week (since that&#8217;s the earliest I can get my hands on a decent camera.) hopefully it will turn out nice, and it&#8217;s the closest thing I plan on doing to a live concert for a while.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll put each video in a separate post, and people can vote on them (or I&#8217;ll think of another way to do the voting) - regardless, I&#8217;ll take the ones people like and try to get them out on the internet a bit more (youtube, lastfm, myspace..) I mostly plan on doing this because I feel I have a lack of video content, and I&#8217;m not really that into my first music video. Ok, yeah, so that&#8217;s it. Bye for now.</p>
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		<title>Nocturnal Fables and Illusions (Rerelease) [2008] &#124; Download</title>
		<link>http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/?p=322</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Here is an album I worked on a while ago (I&#8217;ve decided to make it easier to download, so, you can download it here, and if you find you enjoy it, maybe tell a friend or two. 
1. Underwater Waltz
2. Black Sheep
3. Forget it
4. A Reason Why
5. Nostalgia, In Retrospect
6. Down is Through
7. My [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Visitors,</p>
<p>Here is an album I worked on a while ago (I&#8217;ve decided to make it easier to download, so, you can <a href="http://www.bensimaginaryband.com/album/Nocturnal-Fables-and-Illusions.zip">download it here</a>, and if you find you enjoy it, maybe tell a friend or two. </p>
<p>1. Underwater Waltz<br />
2. Black Sheep<br />
3. Forget it<br />
4. A Reason Why<br />
5. Nostalgia, In Retrospect<br />
6. Down is Through<br />
7. My Self-centered World<br />
8. Sleeping While Driving<br />
9. Life in a Cave<br />
10. Saline S. Sonata<br />
11. Chloroform For Your Ears<br />
12. The Last Living Man</p>
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		<title>CD Sales &#038; Jamendo</title>
		<link>http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/?p=195</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to let people know how things have gone so far, as far as my record selling goes. Well, I&#8217;ve sold about as many as I&#8217;d expected, it makes me happy to know that there are even a few people out there who like it and want to listen to it enough to support [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to let people know how things have gone so far, as far as my record selling goes. Well, I&#8217;ve sold about as many as I&#8217;d expected, it makes me happy to know that there are even a few people out there who like it and want to listen to it enough to support me. So I appeciate that. Speaking of which, something that&#8217;s been very uplifting of late is that there have been a number of people looking at my work on a site called <a title="Jamendo" href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/">Jamendo</a> and I&#8217;ve been getting very kind words from them, so I&#8217;d like to say thanks for that also. Jamendo works with the creative commons license by the way.</p>
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<p>Now, I understand that since I&#8217;m actually <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">giving my music away for free</a>, the motivation to buy it slightly diminishes, so that makes sense. But, if you would like to help me, there is something I would find very helpful; that is, if you were to tell your friends about my music, or, if someone&#8217;s into being creative and making videos, then if they made a music video I&#8217;d be very grateful for that. I mean, I&#8217;ve had some ideas myself, but unless I have a team of cartoonists, or one very dedicated one, I doubt I could pull it off.</p>
<div style="margin:3px;"><a rel="rdfs:seeAlso"><img style="border:0;" src="http://imgjam.com/ext/jamendo1.png" alt="Jamendo : Free music" /></a></div>
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		<title>Good News! (CD Released)</title>
		<link>http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/?p=55</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the news I thought I was going to say sometime last year, but apparently these things take a while. Well anyway, here it is: I finally have an actual CD you can buy! Find it at the store if you like, or if you want to buy it some other way, just email [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the news I thought I was going to say sometime last year, but apparently these things take a while. Well anyway, here it is: I finally have an <a href="http://www.indiepool.com/BIBLC001">actual CD you can buy!</a> Find it at the store if you like, or if you want to buy it some other way, just email me at <a href="mailto:mail@bensimaginaryband.com">mail@bensimaginaryband.com</a> and we&#8217;ll work something out.</p>
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<p>If you were wondering about where the proceeds from sales go, it will be used to fund living expenses/new equipment while I make more music.</p>
<p>Oh, in case you noticed, the fancy new layout courtesy of my father. Aka <a href="http://www.planetgrafix.com">Planetgrafix</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.indiepool.com/BIBLC001"> <img style="border-style:none;" src="http://indiepool.com/logos/images/buynow_off.gif" alt="" /> </a></p>
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<p>Thanks everyone.<br />
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		<title>Website Attempt 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for coming by. If you happened to drop by earlier than March 18, you would&#8217;ve seen quite a different looking page (you can have look at it here.)

One that, while looking kind of pretty, was hardly considered user friendly. And, since the point of having a site is to show you my music, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Thanks for coming by. If you happened to drop by earlier than March 18, you would&#8217;ve seen quite a different looking page (you can have look at it <a href="http://www.bensimaginaryband.com"></a><a href="http://www.bensimaginaryband.com/index.html">here</a>.)</p>
<p><a style="float:left;" href="http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/webscreen1thumbnail1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-78 alignleft" title="Website 1" src="http://bensimaginaryband.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/webscreen1thumbnail1.png" alt="" width="127" height="123" /></a><br />
One that, while looking kind of pretty, was hardly considered user friendly. And, since the point of having a site is to show you my music, it seemed fairly imprudent to make it hard to use. So here I am, presenting you with site number 2. A site built on blogging technology, which means I can once again enter a trend stylishly late.</p>
<p align="justify">Ok, so I&#8217;ll try and put something new on here, say, every few weeks. I&#8217;ll be posting ideas, events, news, and sometimes even questions. And you if you feel like responding to any of it, your opinion is always appreciated. Or if you&#8217;d prefer to contact me directly, you can always do so at <a href="mailto:mail@bensimaginaryband.com" target="_blank">mail@bensimaginaryband.com</a>.</p>
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