{"id":11748,"date":"2012-09-10T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T01:48:43","slug":"ben-gillies-unveils-bento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2012\/09\/ben-gillies-unveils-bento\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Gillies unveils Bento"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>These are and this is DIAMOND DAYS, the sparkling debut album by Bento \u2013 the new musical creation from Ben Gillies, drummer and co-founder of Silverchair.<\/p>\n

DIAMOND DAYS is twelve new bristling and glistening rock & roll songs, with Ben up front, singing his heart out, singing his own songs, and opening up like you\u2019ve never heard him before.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an album of self-discovery, of finding myself,\u201d says Ben. \u201cI\u2019ve always written songs and over the years I\u2019ve kept a log of every idea. It\u2019s exciting to finally see some of these ideas fully realised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds the former APRA Songwriter of the Year: \u201cBeing part of something as awesome and mammoth as Silverchair required so much of myself and at times there was very little energy left for other things. Now I feel as if I\u2019m freed up and can satisfy my own creative output and get about doing what makes sense for me at this point. It\u2019s been a while in the making and I\u2019m excited to finally share it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honest, uncluttered, open-hearted, Bento is Ben\u2019s baby, but it sounds like a full band that has been playing together forever. Pulled together from a thousand ideas Ben has collected over the years, there\u2019s a distinctive sheen to the twelve tracks that make up DIAMOND DAYS, a unique cohesiveness and melodious energy.<\/p>\n

Prepare yourself \u2013 Bento sounds nothing like Silverchair. And if you happened to have heard Ben\u2019s short-lived Tambalane project from a few years back, well, Bento sounds absolutely nothing like that either.<\/p>\n

The immediacy of the lead track, the title track Diamond Days, will give you a fair indication of what Bento is all about. But there are a dozen different moods and views present on the album.<\/p>\n

Co-produced by Ben Gillies and Eric J Dubowsky (Faker, Art Vs. Science), and featuring an array of Ben\u2019s muso mates throughout, including Papa Vs Pretty\u2019s gifted frontman and guitarist Thomas Rawle as a lead player, this is Bento, and this is \u2026 these are \u2026 DIAMOND DAYS. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

The first single from the album, Diamond Days, goes to radio on Monday, 17 September and will be available to purchase (from all good online retailers\/iTunes) on the same day and the video is available to view now:<\/p>\n

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