Urusen
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Life Under Seat
Cat No. - Aco 4
CD Price £10

Track Listings
1	Magic Mr Meaner
2	The Man With the Square Halo
3	Believed
4	Pillows
5	Tell Me
6	Hallelujah
7	Government Anecdote
8	Sooner or Later
9	Piano Song
10	Caught Hanging
11	Meanest Sister
12	Smoking a Fag
13	Wanted
14	Superhero

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Urusen are Peter Beatty and Ben Please, cousins who've both been playing guitar and writing songs for as long as they can remember. They grew up in Somerset and then each did their own thing for a while: Ben spent his school days playing around the local band circuit in Bath whilst Peter was at university in London, but they met up whenever they could to share their ideas. In 1998 Ben started university near London, and at last he and Peter were able to collaborate more. They began to meet regularly and that summer, at a small festival in North London, they first performed as an acoustic duo. Then in 2000 and 2001 they played a string of performances in London and Cambridge, occasionally adding keyboards, percussion and bass to their sound with support from other musician mates. They also began to record their material, intelligent song writing capably backed up with impressive guitar fretwork to create some positively uplifting sounds-The Cambridge Student, 26th April 2001 Then, in the summer of 2002, Peter and Ben were both living and working in London when one day they had an opportunity to go back to Bath and record an album. Not that it was a difficult choice - they jumped at the chance, and joined by friend and bassist Jon Wordsworth whom Ben met at university, they recorded and produced their first album Life Under Seat-under the new name - Urusen. Urusen mix a wide range of influences and inspirations their energetic, lively and individual sound blends acoustic rock and pop with a measure of blues and jazz, and is all about interesting guitar sounds and the fusion of their contrasting vocals into harmonies. Urusen have built up a sizeable and expanding repertoire of material that they have been performing this summer, 2003, at London venues like The Troubadour Club (Earl’s Court) and The Sound Cafe (Leicester Square). Their album Life Under Seat is a collection of fifteen of their songs and is described as a set of ace tunes and "delicious melodies" (Decode Magazine, Issues 7 & 8, 2003).

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