Site News
2007-03-13 Gone live!
2007-03-07 Store front added.
2007-02-09
Site redesign in progress.
news
8 May 2008
Announcing bencraven.com
My musical activities, including Tunisia, now have a new home at:
It's a blog-style site where I'll be posting news, audio demos, studio works-in-progress and rehearsal snippets.
Meanwhile, this site will remain as the home of my record label Desert Comb Music.
9 January 2008
SoundsLikeCafe
Enough About You has debuted at #8 on this month's SoundsLikeCafe chart!
5 October 2007
New Compilations
Enough About You is slated for inclusion on the next SoundsLikeCafe sampler Volume #18. Meanwhile, Captain Caper will appear on the Starving Kids Have You Heard Volume #3.
25 September 200
Platinum Blue Music X-Ray
The forthcoming Tunisia(?) track She Will has been given the highest possible "Hit Grade" by Platinum Blue Music X-Ray (click to see the report). All pretty controversial stuff of course, except when it works in your favour..
24 September 2007
Australian Songwriting Contest Final Results
Tunisia's Great Divide came in at number 4 in Folk/Acoustic!
3 August 2007
Top 10 - Australian Songwriting Contest 2007
Great Divide has made the top 10 in the Folk/Acoustic category! More news to come at the end of the month.
3 August 2007
Tunisia in Poland
The great Artur Chachlowski has been spinning Two False Idols on his weekly MLWZ radio show. He's also posted a review (in Polish) which we'll have translated soon..
24 July 2007
Tunisia rockets up the SoundsLikeCafe chart
Great Divide has zoomed up 4 places to #6 for this month..
24 July 2007
Australian Songwriting Contest 2007
Tunisia's Great Divide and Celeste have been shortlisted in the 27th Australian Songwriting Contest, in the Folk/Acoustic and Instrumental categories respectively.
17 June 2007
SoundsLikeCafe chart
Great Divide has debuted at #10 on this month's SoundsLikeCafe chart!
20 May 2007
Two False Idols back in stock!
The 2-cd European edition is now in stock at this website, available in our Store!
19 May 2007
Tunisia on 'SoundsLikeCafe'
Tunisia's Great Divide appears on the latest SoundsLikeCafe sampler cd Volume #16. If you're chatting someone up in the local coffee shop, and there's a lull in proceedings, be sure to request it!
8 May 2007
Tunisia offers free download of new EP!
Under Deconstruction is now available for free download at
9 February 2007
Tunisia is alive, well and recording in Brisbane
Be sure to check out the Studio Diary (also found on the Blog) !
10 January 2007
Tunisia in UK Classic Rock Magazine
Check out page 84..
29 October 2006
Blog - Exciting and New
Well it's finally happened.. come aboard and check out the spiffy new blog! It replaces the Diary section of this website, but don't worry - all my witless musings and excruciating studio transcripts have simply found a new home.
1 September 2006
Q Song 2006 songwriting competition finalist!
Well, Tunisia's Ben Craven, along with Brad Douglas (co-writer of Enough About You and If You Knew), are one of four finalists in the R&B category for the unreleased track Freed By The Funk! The winner will be announced on Tuesday, October 17th at the "Q Song Gala Awards Ceremony".
What - you've never been to a gala awards ceremony before?
Free
download!
New Tunisia EP
Under
Deconstruction
Debut Tunisia
album
Two False Idols
available in our Store
and iTunes
".. Catchy hook laden melodies,
brilliant songwriting, and richly orchestrated arrangements."
Prognaut.com
".. Anyone who can sound like Pink Floyd or Porcupine Tree one
minute and The Jayhawks or The Humblebums the next has to be worth a listen."
Classic Rock Society
"Craven really has come up with something very different and
ingenious here and, as such, ‘cinematic rock’ is pretty much
a perfect description." HardRockHouse.com
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