Henning at The Iron Horse - September 27 - 7:00 PM.

Henning was just added to the bill at the Iron Horse Music Hall this Thursday September 27.  The show starts at 7:00 (Doors at 5:30) with Henning who will be followed by Burlap to Cashmire.

Tickets and information here: Iron Horse Music Hall

Henning and the Robot Monster

French Site 'Brain Damaged' on Henning Goes To The Movies

Here's a little piece on the album at the French site: Brain Damaged

Il aura fallu attendre 2011 pour qu’un album de ce genre voit le jour. Henning Ohlenbusch vient de créer le concept album cinema.

Les fans de pop folk indé doivent déjà connaître son nom. Henning Ohlenbusch vient de sortir un concept album détonnant. Tous les titres sont dédiés à des films qui l’ont inspiré, marqué, voire effrayé. L’Album folk intitulé Henning Goes to the Movies (Henning va au cinéma) propose neuf titres basés sur des films comme Poltergeist, X-Men Orgins : Wolverine, en passant par Amélie Poulain, ou Joe contre le Volcan. Un concept  album unique, puisque jusqu’ici, seuls les studios proposaient à des musiciens d’écrire des chansons spéciales pour certains films. De plus, personne n’avait proposé un album entièrement dédié au 7ème Art et son influence sur le travail de compositeur.

Pour Henning ce nouvel opus permet d’illustrer les mécanismes de cette influence :  « comme toutes les choses de la vie,  l’impact des films est différent d’un spectateur à l’autre. Dans cet album, j’ai essayé d’exprimr à travers ma musique ce que j’ai pu ressentir vis à vis de ces films qui ont marqué m’ont esprit et affecté ma vie. Je me suis imposé une seule règle pendant la conception de ces titres : ne pas revoir les films en question. De cette manière, j’espère faire ressentir à mes auditeurs ce que j’ai pu ressentir en les regardant par le passé. »

L’album Henning goes to the movies est disponible via iTunes, spotify et amazon. Pour plus d’information, voici le site officiel de cet artiste pop/folk psychédélique : http://henninggoestothemovies.blogspot.com/.

Et pour les curieux voici ce que donne Poltergeist, une vidéo musicale proposée par l’artiste, et tournée avec un smartphone. Délirant !  - by Asma El Mardi

BleedingCool.com on Henning Goes To The Movies.

Here's a little blurb about Henning Goes To The Movies at BleedingCool.com:


"At the crossroads between popular music and the big screen is Henning Ohlenbusch and his album Henning Goes to the Movies (available now), every track inspired by a film from Meatballs to Amelie, Joe Versus the Volcano to Superbad. Here’s his Poltergeist number, the video of which should just be white noise, really." - by Brendon Connelly.

Video for Poltergeist

Movieline.com on Henning Goes To The Movies:

"Henning Ohlenbusch has more than just one of the most awesome names in contemporary music. He also now has a full-length album of songs inspired by movies. It’s quite the spectrum, too — Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Straight Story, Amélie, Joe Versus the Volcano, Logan’s Run, Meatballs, The Year My Voice Broke, Superbad and, in an irresistible effort you can hear after the jump, a folk song inspired by that mellow, soothing cinematic bromide known as Poltergeist.

The songs are compiled on Ohlenbusch’s new album Henning Goes to the Movies, which is out now. The “Poltergeist,” uh, “video” dropped today (it’s basically a Vegas water feature shot on and iPhone, but hey — “Poltergeist”!), and don’t be alarmed if it doesn’t quite jibe with your impressions or remembrances of the 1982 horror masterpiece. That’s kind of the point, according to the songwriter. “Like everything in life, movies are experienced differently by each viewer,” Ohlenbusch wrote in a statement just over the transom at ML HQ.

“On this record, I tried to express in music how these nine films impacted me personally. At the outset, I established one rule: I was not allowed to revisit a film until I composed and recorded the song that it inspired me to write. In this way, I hope that each piece genuinely conveys the ways in which each movie has stuck with me throughout the years. […] It was important to me that each of these songs stands on its own merit. For most of them, the listener might have never even known what the inspiration was had the songs not been titled the way that they are.”

Fair enough. You can find the album in its entirety at iTunes, Amazon and Spotify, and there are a few little gems tucked in there. I’m fond of “Superbad” — “”It’s a thought that’s as jarring as the homeroom bells / The next time you see me, I might be someone else” — but you tell me."  - by S.T. VanAirsdale

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Pulp Truth Review

The website Pulp Truth recently published a nice review of 'Henning Goes To The Movies'.

"Before this album I knew that films connect with people on a human, real life, level. I write about my experiences and connections with film all the time. But I learned from Henning and his album that just as his experiences are not mine, and mine are not yours, that there is a certain powerful force in sharing our experiences so that others may connect in some way..."

You can read the entire article here: Pulp Truth