Bent Rushmore

Bent Rushmore is an Estonian blues and electronic music artist. Known as a lead guitarist from the popular band Köömes.

Estonia was a part of communistic superpower Soviet Union at the time when Bent grew up. Popular western music like disco and rock’n’roll was forbidden in the country during that time. These music styles had gone underground. Bents’ father worked as a taxi driver by day and a vinyl record smuggler during nights. This meant that he bought LP’s from foreigners visiting the country, recorded the music on cassette tapes and secretly sold the recordings to local DJ’s and music lovers. This used to be a good source of extra income during the times.
From that time, helping his dad with everyday recordings (mostly pressing “record” and “dolby” buttons) Bent got his love and appreciation towards music.

Later in the 1990’ies, during high school, Bent started to DJ himself using his fathers music collection as a starter.

While music of various genders was a part of his everyday life, playing an actual instrument came much later; in 2005 when he bought his first electric guitar. While showing it off playing a few Nirvana songs to his friends, it came to light, that one of his best friends had secretly bought a bass guitar and had also been practicing. This meant only one thing, a band called “Köömes” was born. Together they found a drummer, started writing songs and rehearsing in the drummers basement.

Köömes has grown since then in size and popularity. It is now a successful 6 person rock band with 4 studio albums in it’s discography. Köömes is being played in Estonian radios and the band has toured the country playing stages of various sizes.

While Bent is co-writing music in Köömes, he has also continued to write music on his own as a solo artist. His first solo album “Soi Dog” was published in 2017. It’s a depressive blues album that observes the hardships of everyday life, tiredness and pointlessness of it all. The album strives towards finding the meaning of life but understands ones inability to do so. Soi Dog was released in digital channels and on vinyl.

In 2018 Bent started to flirt with keyboards, synthesisers and electronic music production. This resulted in publishing a meditative album “Steps to Calmness” in 2019.
Bent himself has commented the album as follows: “Seems like the world is a mess nowadays. People are getting tired of energetic rock music and need to calm down. Music is an excellent tool to ease our minds and I do hope songs on this album will help people find the calmness from within”.

Now, the musical journey continues. Bent is writing new music all the time and new releases will soon follow in both, blues and electronic music genre.

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Bent Rushmore’s tracks

• Õhk by Bent Rushmore
• Lootus (feat. Kelly Tomson) by Bent Rushmore
• Pilv by Bent Rushmore