Benjamin Kantschieder (vocals, all instruments, soundscapes, drones, loops, noise)
Influences
everything by Mr. Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Bass Communion, Blackfield, No-Man, Incredible Expanding Mindfuck),
Pink Floyd / David Gilmour,
Acid Mothers Temple,
Aerosmith,
Agitation Free,
Air,
Alamaailman Vasarat,
Almuadem,
Amon Düül 1 & 2,
Amplifier,
Anekdoten,
Änglagård,
Arthur Brown,
Ash Ra Tempel / Ashra,
Astra,
At The Drive-In,
Badger,
Bat For Lashes,
Beardfish,
The Beatles,
Beck,
Behold... The Arctopus,
Birth Control,
Björk,
The Black Angels,
Black Market Karma,
Black Mountain,
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Black Sabbath,
Blackmores's Night,
Blind Faith,
Blur,
Boards Of Canada,
Bob Dylan,
Brendan Benson,
Brian Eno,
The Brian Jonestown Massacre,
Bright Eyes,
Bubu,
The Byrds,
Camel,
Can,
Captain Beyond,
Chad VanGaalen,
Chroma Key,
Cluster & Eno,
Cocteau Twins,
Coldplay,
Colosseum 1 & 2,
Comus,
Coverdale & Page,
Cream,
CCR,
CSN (&Young),
The Cure,
Dälek,
Daturah,
De Facto,
Dead Soul Tribe,
Death Cab For Cutie,
Death In Vegas,
The Decemberists,
Deep Purple,
Deerhunter,
Deluge Grander,
Depeche Mode,
Devin Townsend,
Dire Straits,
The Doors,
Dream Theater,
Druid,
The Dukes Of Stratosphear / XTC,
Earth,
Einstürzende Neubauten,
Elbow,
ELP,
Engineers,
The Enid,
Eric Clapton,
Explosions In The Sky,
Fantômas,
Fates Warning,
Fear Falls Burning,
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac,
The Flower Kings,
Frank Zappa (& The Mothers Of Invention),
Genesis,
Gentle Giant,
George Harrison,
Global Communication,
Gnidrolog,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
Gojira,
Grails,
Guns N' Roses,
Harmonia,
Harmonium,
Have A Nice Life,
Hawkwind,
Henry Cow,
Herbie Hancock,
Hidria Spacefolk,
Horslips,
Hurricane 1,
I Am X,
Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull,
iLiKETRAiNS,
Iron Butterfly,
Jamiroquai,
Jean Michel Jarre,
Jeff Beck,
The Jesus & Mary Chain,
Jimi Hendrix,
Johnny Cash,
Jon Anderson,
Jon Lord,
Jonas Hellborg,
Buckethead,
Jonny Greenwood,
Kaipa (from the 70ies - the new stuff is crap...),
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Kate Bush,
The Kills,
King Crimson,
Klaus Schulze,
Lisa Gerrard,
Kula Shaker,
Kyrie Eleison,
Landberk,
Led Zeppelin,
Leonard Cohen,
Liquid Tension Experiment,
Loop,
Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Magma,
Magna Carta,
The Mahavishnu Orchestra,
Mark Hollis / Talk Talk,
Mark Knopfler,
The Mars Volta,
Massive Attack,
Mastodon,
Maudlin Of The Well,
Meshuggah,
Mike Oldfield,
Michiyo Yagi,
Miles Davis,
Mogwai,
Mojave 3,
Mono,
Monster Movie,
Mountain,
My Bloody Valentine,
Nadja,
Nancy Wilson,
Neil Young,
Nektar,
Neotropic,
Nick Cave,
Nick Drake,
Night Sun,
Nine Inch Nails,
Oasis,
Oceansize,
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez,
Opeth,
OSI,
Paatos,
Paco De Lucia,
Paul McCartney,
John Lennon,
Paul Weller,
Pelican,
A Perfect Circle,
Peter Gabriel,
Phideaux,
The Pineapple Thief,
The Police,
Popol Vuh,
Portishead,
Premiata Forneria Marconi,
The Pretty Things,
Primal Scream,
Procol Harum,
The Prodigy,
Pure Reason Revolution,
Quatermass,
Rachel Portman,
Radiohead,
Rainbow,
Ram Jam,
Ravi Shankar,
Red Sparowes,
Richard Barbieri,
Richard Wright,
Ride,
Robert Fripp / King Crimson / Fripp & Eno,
Robert Plant,
Robin Trower,
Roger Waters,
Roine Stolt,
The Rolling Stones,
Rory Gallagher,
Roxy Music,
Roy Harper,
Roy Rogers,
Rufus Wrainwright,
Rush,
Russian Circles,
Ryan Adams,
Sand Snowman,
Santana,
Scraps Of Tape,
The Seahorses / The Stone Roses / John Squire,
Seal,
Sigur Rós,
Simon & Garfunkle,
Siouxsie & The Banshees,
Sleepmakeswaves,
Slint,
Slowdive,
Sneaker Pimps,
Soft Machine,
Sonic Youth,
The Sound Of Animals Fighting,
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives,
Spock's Beard,
Steve Hackett,
Steve Howe,
Sting,
A Storm Of Light,
Sunn O))),
The Tangent,
Tangerine Dream,
Taste,
Thenewno2,
Thisquietarmy,
Tom Petty,
Tomas Bodin,
Tortoise,
Tosca,
Transatlantic,
Travis,
(80ies) U2,
Uematsu Nobuo,
Van Der Graaf Generator,
Van Morrison / Them,
The Velvet Underground (& Nico),
The Verve / Nick McCabe,
Voivod,
The White Stripes,
The Who,
Will-O-The-Wisp,
The Wings,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
YES,
The 3rd And The Mortal,
801,
Soundtracks (FF6, FF7, FF9, Wild Arms, Juno, Cowboy Bebop, Chrono Cross, Legende, Suikoden I, Chocolat, Elizabethtown, Lost In Translation, Whale Rider, Wall-E, The Dark Knight)
"One gray is the absorption of one joule of energy, in the form of ionizing radiation, by one kilogram of matter. One gray is equivalent to 100 rad. Using an air ionisation energy of about 36.161 J/C, we have 1 Gy ≈ 115 R."
This is the solo project of "Guided By Confusion" singer / guitarist Benjamin Kantschieder (that's me ..) - mostly in a more acoustic vein than the songs of GBC (which are far more electronic and synthie-pop-based due to the lack of a bassist / drummer and the use of a synthesizer to fill these holes)
It's also an opportunity for exploring some of the more experimental sides of music that I am interested in - mostly Ambient / Drone-based music... (huge influences are the likes of "Nadja", "Fripp / Eno", Steven Wilson's "Bass Communion", the guitar-worshipers of "SunnO)))", the elegiac soundscapes of "Fear Falls Burning" or "Stars Of The Lid" and the dark ambient by artists like "Lustmord" or "Lull"...)
Most of the songs, however, are folky / acoustic-guitar based songs, drenched in reverb and adorned with soundscapes that I create through processing and de-constructing recorded sound-sources - think of "No-Man", Porcupine Tree's "Half Light", the version of Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes The Flood" on Robert Fripp's "Exposure"-record, Nick Drake is a GIANT source of inspiration too as is Nick McCabe, guitarist of "The Verve" and his style of guitar playing, and the whole "Shoegaze" scene (My Bloody Valentine, Ride, early Verve, Lush, JAMC and Cocteau Twins - to name just a few...) - I think you get the picture by now... All in all these songs are just too quiet, calm and often a little depressing and overall don't fit the style of music that "Guided By Confusion" is playing and that's why I started this side-project...
wixwix die ehre isst gans, meinerseits. ich bin eben etwas langsamen beim knüpfen zwischenmenschlicher beziehungen, mjam. dafür kann ich mir jetzt umso mehr zeit lassen deiner zart unschuldigen kehle beim stöhnen zu lauschen..
What's up Ben [One-And-A-Half-Days]? The skin I shed is a perfume that makes water bubbles so terribly clear to me. May you always have stables of horses to service your needs. Polished rock candy comes ever to mind when thinking of you. Panoramic aromavision is the future. A starfish's lifelong hallucinations of gelatin pools and of actuaries floating upon the foam and reciprocal ohm. The elves that play in the toasters wash their drum sticks in honey and sing strikingly colored anthems in perfect harmonious pleasure. May you be as vivid as your hallucinations. Your cleverness helps me breathe without the need of oxygen. The expanse of your beauty is a void no universe could ever fill. The music that flows from your instruments overwhelms me with creativity. You have not yet reached the height of your creativity. You are dressed with filaments and people take pains to make you fully incandescent this evening. Your essence is equal to the beauty of a galaxy. Your intoxicating reflection can but incorporate freely into the powerful surface of a disintegrating mirror set afloat upon a swarm of locusts.
Hello from England. These are very good songs, your own haunting style/voice and there's some great guitar work. All the very best with it Ben! Peace, Tim
Ma, sooo geil os DT konzert war einfach der hammer!!!
ein meet & greet mit john petrucci, einfach unfassbar, i muas ma die jungs im herbst no amal live geben, wenn sie mehr vom neuen album auf da progressive nation tour spielen...
wie gehts dia sonst so?
aja, is neue album is eigentlich zum echten grower gworden, is solo am ende von the shattered fortress is einfach himmlisch!!!
