Born in Halifax and having moved countless times along the East coast, Gareth Bush has since found his element in London Ontario, where he has resided since 2003.

Growing up learning to play piano/trombone along with various choirs along the way, Gareth eventually found a much stronger interest in the acoustic guitar.  As each high school semester went by, simple strumming patterns quickly developed into original melodies and more complicated verses.  Surrounded by the friends and family of the school's music department, inspiration wasn't hard to find.

Gareth's first original recording was a song called 'Grow', recorded by classmate and now professional audio engineer Alastair Sims.  At 16, it was a raw, underdeveloped effort. It was also a sign of things to come.  After a few more unrelated recordings put out on MySpace, music production came to a long-term halt due to a lack of recording resources.  Add on a nearly terminal case of writer's block, and the singer/songwriter approach was paused indefinitely.

Following high school graduation, Gareth took up street-performance more seriously as a way to practice publicly, build up repertoire, and of course, make some money.  After weekly appearances around the city's bar scene during obscenely late hours, his skills and song archives were much more polished.

At 20 as a directionless university student at Western, Gareth was messaged by Kenneth Nielson, a student at OIART (London's audio engineering institution) expressing interest in recording him for his school projects.  Before you know it, a successful working relationship was formed and the two teamed up on a number of acoustic recordings and studio productions.  Kenneth's hard work, generosity and available resources revived Gareth's songwriting aspirations.

Nielson and Bush worked together on a 5-track EP, called 'This Is For Keeps' which is currently being finalized.  

Christopher Annen, Henning May und Severin Kantereit sind ANNENMAYKANTEREIT. Drei Freunde, die nichts Großartigeres kennen, als zusammen Musik zu machen.

Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

KM074 is out now
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Keinemusik is a network with the label as the pulse pumping centre. Driven particularly by the spirit that moves the collective behind the imprint. The spirit to find your own agenda and let nobody get in the way. The spirit of refining House and Techno off the beaten path. Be it within their own tracks, within productions of other sorts or DJ-sets. The spirit of recall value within record- and flyer-artworks and everything intermediate in word and image surrounding releases and parties. And the spirit of diversification – Rampa’s effect-gadget-venture TEILE being one example. Keinemusik’s own booking department ‘Worldwide Dancing Club’, established in 2018, being another.

Keinemusik has been around since 2009. It has been naming an existing friendship and linked interests of the four members – &ME, Adam Port, Rampa and Reznik. A more or less constant count of five releases per year have been released ever since, solely laid down by members of the crew. And a considerable count of label-parties went down, not only in Berlin, but around all international focal points for electronic music. And surely, there’s plenty more where those came from. So see you soon in a record store or on a dancefloor in your area!

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