After more than 2 years in the making, the debut album from Benjamin Koll was released on August 28th 2017. It was defined as a music-driven time travel, back to the eighties and fast forward to the future, and was received with rave reviews and record breaking sales for an indie artist, reaching more than 5 million views on Youtube and a combined following of more than 30k users all over the world on different platforms before releasing “All Systems Go”, his second album.
Songs For a Better Future delivers more than 70 minutes of music in 17 tracks, making it a well-rounded album with styles ranging from downtempo and chill-out to funk and house music, without losing the feel-good vibe that has been a staple on Benjamin Koll’s music.
It includes all of his previously released singles, plus 2 Become 1 featuring production and vocal duet with Jose Spinnin Cortes, and many more goodies, check out the list of remix singles and Ep’s here, and don’t forget to visit Youtube, where you’ll find all the music videos.
Look out for the expanded versions of some of the songs and submerge yourself in the visual universe of Benjamin Koll browsing the Listening Companion, a paperback illustrated photo book released simultaneously online (available exclusively on Amazon stores), containing all the lyrics, song insights, photos and more.
On February 2019 a special remix album was released (digital only). Check out “Remixes From A Future Past” here —>
SONGS FOR A BETTER FUTURE - LISTENING COMPANION
Discover a new way to enjoy and get to know the songs inside “Songs For A Better Future”. Dive in this 92 page paperback listening companion photo book and learn more about each one of the songs of the album and their back stories. includes all the lyrics, and more than 50 never-before seen photos of Benjamin for your viewing pleasure and expanded artwork, among them, illustrations by the artist Marco ByM Veloso (Brasil) and photos by Ivan & Gabo (Argentina).
What is it about?
This book will be your listening companion to Songs For A Better Future. We will travel together through it's seventeen songs discovering pictures, the stories that inspired them, their lyrics and much more.
One of the things I most enjoy about the process of creating new music is that moment when you sit down with a friend and listen to the songs, talking about them. I want you to have that same experience, enjoying the music together with every turn of a page, making that discovery something special between me and you. That's why I have written this listening companion.
I'll be introducing you each song in order, first the lyrics, then some insights, motivations and feelings about them, and of course pictures and illustrations inspired by them, because I believe music must be an experience for all the senses. My advice: get confortable and isolate yourself from the world, let's fly away for 74 minutes.
The album is called Songs For A Better Future because music was a huge part of my inner life since my childhood, and though I think I was lucky enough to be surrounded by so much talent in the seventies and eighties, there was always something missing that made me feel alone and kind of alien in the world. Not many songs really talked about me, about what I felt or liked. I was always looking for secret messages or answers in my favorite artists, but I got few.
This collection is my attempt to provide new generations those songs I would had love to hear when I was growing up, hoping they will feel less isolated and more happy.
This is what you'l find inside the book:
In Jose Spinnin Cortes' own words: With this book, Benjamin Koll takes you on a very personal journey to the very core of each one of the songs. This book finally answers to what I think is one of the most difficult, commonly asked questions to creative minds yet, not always answered accurately: what inspires you? Something not found very often nowadays.
SONGS FOR A BETTER FUTURE
On this section you’ll find wallpapers and other goodies.
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