Spookey Ruben

Spookey Ruben (real name Alan Deil; * in Ottawa, Canada ) is a Canadian musician, composer and video director.

Career

As the son of a worker employed at ESA space engineer, he grew up among others, in Verden, Lower Saxony. He speaks almost perfect German.

His parents insisted that he learned an instrument, and he chose the classical guitar. At the age of 13 he received the first time an electric guitar in his hand. Result, he was a member of several hardcore and speed metal bands, one of which is probably the most famous Transilience. With its shaped by the music style appearance, wearing long hair and Satanic T -shirts, he earned in high school nicknamed evil from which later became Spooky.

At the age of 19 he moved to Toronto, where he began studying film at the University of York. Meanwhile, he pursued his interest in music continues with the help of a four-track recorder.

In 1995, he released his first album Modes of Transportation Vol 1 on the label TVT. This includes the song These Days Are Old, the free in the WDR program room! is used as the theme song. Spookey Ruben had a live appearance on the show. The second album Modes of Transportation Vol 2 - What's A Boy To Do? under the label TVT released in 1998 only in Japan.

Discrepancies between DVT and Spookey Ruben led to a termination of cooperation and a longer rest period for the artist. After failed Ruben below to find a new label, he founded his own called Hi -Hat Recordings. The published there albums Bed and Breakfast appeared in 2001 and 2002; contained on them are also photographs from the years 1998-2001, some already on the second album Modes of Transportation Vol 2 - What's A Boy To Do? published.

2006 Ruben was most recently on tour in Europe. In Germany, he appeared together with Emirsian. They were accompanied on the tour first from a classical bass player and a drummer. During the tour they had to separate you from your drummer because its demands on accommodation and meals were too high, so they had to make do without drums.

The artists took turns, but not left the stage during the speech of the other, but took over the role of accompanying musicians.

Music style

Rubens musical style is influenced by the pop music of the 80s. The instrumentation of his compositions he mixes electronic sounds and instruments with acoustic and electric guitars. The singing is coined from a contrast of high tonal passages to deep tonal passages.

In 2008 album Mechanical Royalty Ruben goes on the same 15 - minute song new ways by providing a progressive- rock track here in contrast to the otherwise usual of him pop -oriented songs. According to Ruben, he always wanted to do such a thing.

Discography

Albums

• Modes of Transportation Vol 1, 1995
• Wendy McDonald, Live in Japan EP, 1997
• Modes of Transportation Vol 2 - What's A Boy To Do in 1998?
• Bed, 2001
• Breakfast, 2002
• Exit Walsrode, 2006
• Mechanical Royalty, 2008

Swell

• Canadian musicians
• Born in the 20th century
• Man