Idea for a surrealist movie: a piano and a Spanish guitar become best buddies and decide to travel from Spain to Ireland. On their scenic journey, they forge strong friendships with a motley crew of other instruments and make merry in the streets, town squares, narrow alleys (and pubs) of Europe.

So far so good, and although we still need to actually sit down and write the screenplay, we've got the soundtrack already: an album of gentle and uplifting European folklore with a natural, organic sound and a broad mix of styles. With some new age piano (and guitar) music thrown in for good measure.

1. Network Attack
2. Delicious Salsa
3. Narrow Alley Tango
4. Sensual Spanish Waltz
5. Strange Tango
6. Romanian Tango
7. Termite Jig
8. My Favourite Book
9. Chic Jig
10. Teddy
11. Empathy
12. Uptown Jig
13. Blue Water Blues
14. I'll Run Where You Are
15. You Never Know What You Might Find
16. White Chocolate
17. The River Is Wide
18. In Digital Ink
19. Ben

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 11/20/2010
Ben Rusch lives in London England

Tagged as: World, Folk-Rock

1. Music of Fernando Sor by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
2. A Lestampida by Dufay Collective: instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages and Reniassance
3. Brave New World by Sterling: sublime and ethereal electronic music
4. Cifras Selectas de Guitarra, Santiago de Murcia 1722 by Eduardo Figueroa and Oscar Ohlsen: Chilean baroque guitar duo
5. 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime by Steve Eulberg: smile-inducing, toe-tapping folkgrass
6. Cry Wolf by Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
7. Two Romantic Piano Trios by Women Composers by Streicher Trio: classical chamber music on period instruments
8. Scenes of Travel by Eleanor Hodgkinson: beautifully crafted individual playing
9. Switch On - Switch Off by Strojovna 07: techno.
10. The Time Is Now by Electric Frankenstein: high energy punk rock & roll
11. Burgundy Rhymes by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
12. Reminiscence by Emiel Stopler: Filmic composer and acoustic fingerstyle guitarist
13. Mobius Strip by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
14. The Stuff of Fairy Tales by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
15. The Vision Of Enoch by Sulis: heavenly, healing, early music
16. A Reason to Stay Up all Night by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
17. Sundowner by Sundowner: shape-shifting space rock sound of vast drifting guitar-scapes
18. Formantine by Emmalee Crane: ambient, orchestral drone music
19. Among the Lasses, songs of Robert Burns (1759-1796) by Susan Rode Morris: early music delivered with a voluptuous voice and intensely focused delivery
20. Smoke Through It by Endless Blue: Trashy Beats, Melancholy Keys, Sultry Vocals

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