Songs for a Better Future - Listening Companion

This book will be your listening companion to Songs For A Better Future, my first musical album. We will travel together through it's seventeen songs discovering pictures, the stories that inspired them, their lyrics and much more. Lay down and relax, let's begin our journey together.

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:

92 page paperback color illustrated book More than 50 photographies, including covers of previous and future singles All the lyrics of the album Production notes, album credits and insights on each song Introduction by Juan Belmonte Foreword by Jose Spinnin Cortes Expanded artwork

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? It is difficult because you can not answer this lightly, and you usually leave things behind for one reason or another. On this book however, the artist himself will take you on a one-on-one journey through the music as you listen to the album, and will let you know what his true feelings were behind each song. Something not found very often nowadays.