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  • Genre: Acoustic / Pop

    Location London, UK

    Profile Views: 1299162

    Last Login: 8/18/2011

    Member Since 11/4/2005

    Website www.bensbrother.com

    Record Label Flat Cap Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .............. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .............. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ...... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ...... ........ .. .. .. .. .. ........ .... .. .. New single ‘What If I’ and EP released April 25th .. .... .. .... Jamie Hartman aka Ben’s Brother, follows a packed few months with the release of epic new single ‘What If I?’ on April 25th. Having worked with Island Records for last year’s collaboration with Anastacia, this new single will once again be released on Jamie’s own Flat Cap Records. .... The build up to release follows one of the most hectic periods in Jamie’s life (not least of all the planning of his forthcoming wedding!), encompassing work with a broad array of exciting musical talent, and some that took him into new and previously uncharted territory. You might not have known it, but Jamie’s songs are everywhere! .... The fruits of this intensive creative period emphasize the sheer depth of Jamie’s songwriting talent. His co-write with US singer Rosi Golan, titled ‘Think Of Me’, is a feature on the soundtrack to US box office smash movie ‘Dear John’ and looks set to spur a run of exclusive film work; perhaps most excitingly, a Columbia Pictures film score is already on the cards. Meanwhile his songs continue to inspire some of the most exciting new talent here in the UK ; look out for forthcoming single ‘Haunted’ as performed by singer-songwriter Ben Montague, already Record Of The Week on Radio 2. .... More established performers haven’t been slow to recognize his continuing ability to deliver either; Lee Ryan has chosen ‘I Am Who I Am’ as the song to re-launch his solo career, whilst ‘Scars’, considered by many critics to be the choice pick of Natalie Imbruglia’s album, will get the single treatment later this spring. As if that weren’t enough, Jamie even had time to write and produce two songs for newly crowned French ‘artist of the year’ Christophe Willem. .... ’Its been a wonderful few months’ said Jamie ‘I never stop songwriting but even by my standards the last few months have been pretty prolific. I’ve always loved writing for other artists, and what writer doesn’t dream of moving into movies? But its nice to get back to taking control of my own stuff once more, and ‘What if I’ is one of my personal favourites from the Battling Giants album. I remember writing it sitting down with Steve Robson, writer of Take That’s “Shine”; he and I drank tea, ate Kit Kats and wrote about my life falling apart. But we had a laugh doing it.‘ .... Why then, with all of this activity, look to release the next single himself? .... ’Majors are great at what they do, but as an artist you can’t beat the creative freedom of releasing your own material, when and how you want to. We only licensed the last one to Island because we always knew the plan was to retain a level of control. So here we are!‘ .... And what a way to come back, ‘What If I’ is the monstrously broad sounding critics choice from album ‘Battling Giants’, from an artist described by the Times as ‘undeniably catchy, unusually soulful.’ Single: What If I?’ will be available on download and CD on April 25th 2010, and will be accompanied by a brand new EP ‘Glow’ featuring four new songs, and ‘What if I.’ .... EP Tracklist: .. What If I .. Glow .. Love .. Straight Lines .. Be Yourself ...... .. .... .. ...... ....Join The Mailing List.... ..Please sign up .. here.. for all the latest news about the new album and live dates. ...... .. .... ..
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  • Richard Harris


    The HEART is where we live our PASSIONS Bens!
     

    "JACKSON'S LOVE - FOR THE LOVE OF A CHILD" - MY BRAND NEW CD - HAS JUST BEEN RECORDED - WATCH FOR IT SOON @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT LOVE AND PASSION ...

    "LOVE ME without FEAR

    TRUST ME without QUESTIONING

    NEED ME without DEMANDING

    WANT ME without RESTRICTIONS

    ACCEPT ME without CHANGE

    DESIRE ME without INHIBITIONS

    For a LOVE SO FREE ....

    Will NEVER FLY AWAY."

    ~ Dick Sutphen

    THE LOVE BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN IS THE

    GREATEST AND MOST COMPLETE PASSION THE

    WORLD WILL EVER SEE!

    With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    6 months ago
  • Richard Harris


    All That We Are is Because of What We Think Bens!
     

    "JACKSON'S LOVE - FOR THE LOVE OF A CHILD" -  MY BRAND NEW CD - HAS JUST BEEN RECORDED - WATCH FOR IT SOON @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT TRANSFORMING ENERGY ...

    “Don't hold on to ANGER, HURT or PAIN.

    They STEAL YOUR ENERGY and keep you from LOVE.

    Learn to TRANSFORM the NEGATIVE FORCES in your

    life into POSITIVE ENERGY and PRODUCTIVE ACTION."

    ENERGY AND PERSISTENCE CONQUER ALL THINGS!

    With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    8 months ago
  • Loony Ed Wood

    Hi, thanks for the friendship!

    check out my new songs, i hope you like them

    http://youtu.be/-DQqubdygv8

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    updates on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/LOONYEDWOOD/10150091732630374

    and free sharing on soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/loonyedwood

    all the best

    LEW

    8 months ago
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      Hey My Good friend ,
    Hope you are well , 
    i would like to leave you with this animation i produced
    for my single Run
    i hope you like it 
    http://youtu.be/0lHmCRHaOEk

    8 months ago
  • Richard Harris


    Have a GREAT WEEK Bens!
     

    I AM RECORDING A NEW ALBUM THIS SUMMER - WATCH FOR IT @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT HAPPINESS ...

    “HAPPINESS comes of the capacity

    to FEEL DEEPLY,

    to enjoy SIMPLY,

    to THINK FREELY,

    to RISK LIFE,

    to be NEEDED.”

     ~ Storm Jameson

    THE GREATEST HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS TO LOVE

    AND TO BE LOVED IN RETURN!

    With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    9 months ago
  • Richard Harris


    What Becomes of the BROKEN HEARTED Bens?
     

    I AM RECORDING A NEW ALBUM THIS SUMMER - WATCH FOR IT @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS HOW TO MEND A BROKEN HEART ...

    "I can think of younger days when living for my life
    Was everything a man could want to do
    I could never see TOMORROW,
    but I was never told about the SORROW

    And how can you mend a BROKEN HEART?
    How can you stop the RAIN from falling down?
    How can you stop the SUN from SHINING?
    What makes the world go round?

    How can you mend this BROKEN MAN?
    How can a LOSER ever WIN?
    Please help me mend my BROKEN HEART
    and let me LIVE AGAIN."

    ~ Barry and Robin Gibb

    YOU WILL NEVER KNOW TRUE HAPPINESS UNTIL

    YOU HAVE TRULY LOVED, AND YOU WILL NEVER

    UNDERSTAND WHAT PAIN REALLY IS UNTIL YOU

    HAVE LOST IT!

    With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    9 months ago
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    10 months ago
  • Richard Harris


    UNLOCK the POWER OF YOUR MIND Bens!
     

    I AM RECORDING A NEW ALBUM THIS SUMMER - WATCH FOR IT @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT THE POWER OF THOUGHTS ...

    “If you realized how POWERFUL

    your THOUGHTS are,

    you would NEVER THINK

    a NEGATIVE THOUGHT.”

    ~ Peace Pilgrim

    YOUR THOUGHTS HAVE GREAT POWER ~

    GUIDE YOUR THOUGHTS AND FIND YOUR POWER!

    With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    10 months ago
  • Richard Harris


    Have you had a GOOD LAUGH today Bens?
     

    I AM RECORDING A NEW ALBUM THIS SUMMER - WATCH FOR IT @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT GEORGE CARLIN'S HUMOR ...

    "Near as I can tell, "jack shit" and "didly-squat" are roughly the same amount."

    "After the hurricane is gone, where do people put all that plywood?"

    "I think I am, therefore, I am. I think."

    "I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out."

    "Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."

    "I don't mind leaving my house as long as I don't have to look at a lot of unattractive Americans in the process. Visors, logo hats, fat thighs, beer bellies, bad haircuts, halter tops, cheap sneakers, camcorders, and unattractive children wearing blank expressions. God these people are ugly. I stay home a lot."

    A DAY WITHOUT LAUGHTER IS A DAY WASTED!

    With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    10 months ago
  • Richard Harris


    Have a GREAT SUMMER Bens!
     

    I AM RECORDING A NEW CD THIS SUMMER - WATCH FOR IT @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT SUMMERTIME ...

    "Late nights, bikinis, short shorts,

    flip flops, sunglasses, sunshine, loud music,

    pool parties, no makeup, the list goes on.

    ~ SUMMER!"

    Bens ~ STAY THIRSTY MY FRIEND ...

    A PERFECT SUMMER DAY IS WHEN THE SUN IS SHINING,
    THE BREEZE IS BLOWING, THE BIRDS ARE SINGING,
    AND THE LAWN MOWER IS BROKEN!

    With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    10 months ago
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New single ‘What If I’ and EP released April 25th



Jamie Hartman aka Ben’s Brother, follows a packed few months with the release of epic new single ‘What If I?’ on April 25th. Having worked with Island Records for last year’s collaboration with Anastacia, this new single will once again be released on Jamie’s own Flat Cap Records.

The build up to release follows one of the most hectic periods in Jamie’s life (not least of all the planning of his forthcoming wedding!), encompassing work with a broad array of exciting musical talent, and some that took him into new and previously uncharted territory. You might not have known it, but Jamie’s songs are everywhere!

The fruits of this intensive creative period emphasize the sheer depth of Jamie’s songwriting talent. His co-write with US singer Rosi Golan, titled ‘Think Of Me’, is a feature on the soundtrack to US box office smash movie ‘Dear John’ and looks set to spur a run of exclusive film work; perhaps most excitingly, a Columbia Pictures film score is already on the cards. Meanwhile his songs continue to inspire some of the most exciting new talent here in the UK ; look out for forthcoming single ‘Haunted’ as performed by singer-songwriter Ben Montague, already Record Of The Week on Radio 2.

More established performers haven’t been slow to recognize his continuing ability to deliver either; Lee Ryan has chosen ‘I Am Who I Am’ as the song to re-launch his solo career, whilst ‘Scars’, considered by many critics to be the choice pick of Natalie Imbruglia’s album, will get the single treatment later this spring. As if that weren’t enough, Jamie even had time to write and produce two songs for newly crowned French ‘artist of the year’ Christophe Willem.

’Its been a wonderful few months’ said Jamie ‘I never stop songwriting but even by my standards the last few months have been pretty prolific. I’ve always loved writing for other artists, and what writer doesn’t dream of moving into movies? But its nice to get back to taking control of my own stuff once more, and ‘What if I’ is one of my personal favourites from the Battling Giants album. I remember writing it sitting down with Steve Robson, writer of Take That’s “Shine”; he and I drank tea, ate Kit Kats and wrote about my life falling apart. But we had a laugh doing it.‘

Why then, with all of this activity, look to release the next single himself?

’Majors are great at what they do, but as an artist you can’t beat the creative freedom of releasing your own material, when and how you want to. We only licensed the last one to Island because we always knew the plan was to retain a level of control. So here we are!‘

And what a way to come back, ‘What If I’ is the monstrously broad sounding critics choice from album ‘Battling Giants’, from an artist described by the Times as ‘undeniably catchy, unusually soulful.’ Single: What If I?’ will be available on download and CD on April 25th 2010, and will be accompanied by a brand new EP ‘Glow’ featuring four new songs, and ‘What if I.’

EP Tracklist:
What If I
Glow
Love
Straight Lines
Be Yourself








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