ALBUM:
Love Song for Terra
TAYLOR USED:
615
SONG CLIPS:
Journey to Shambhala
28k | 56K
Medicine Wheel
28k | 56K
CONTACT INFO:
P.O. Box 42246
Cleveland,
OH 44142-0246
Email:
BrianHenke9 @aol .com
Web:
www. brianhenkeguitar .com
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Mother Earth as artist has given her inhabitants an immense living gallery, from the humbling spectacle of her natural wonders to the simple beauty of a
treetop against a blue sky. Her majestic legacy, the magical feelings of awe and peace she inspires, inform the compositions of virtuosic fingerstylist
Brian Henke, whose aptly titled CD, Love Songs for Terra, is a cornucopia of sonic vistas. Henke celebrates a Grand Canyon sunset, the fireside magic of
an American shaman, Anasazi ruins in New Mexico, a virgin forest, and the intoxicating panorama of a field of flowers, among other pastoral pleasures.
An avid hiker, Henke often brings a guitar along to create a spontaneous musical response to his outdoor settings.
Henke recorded Love Songs for Terra with a solo acoustic guitar and no overdubs. From his tenderly chiming harmonics to the deep, resonant chord voicings
of his 615, he draws from a vibrant tonal palette, depicting in his songs a resounding fullness. If his compositions have an ethereal quality, they
also remain deeply grounded in nature's accessible, tangible beauty. These "love songs" sound authentically inspired; his heartfelt emotional response
is contagious.
Henke says he explores his musical subjects with a focus and structure that reflects his favorite composer, Beethoven, whose 6th Symphony (The Pastoral)
inspired Henke's "Symphony of the Trees".
Henke has been performing music for over 30 years. After years as a rock guitarist (during which he earned numerous awards), he began
composing for solo acoustic guitar in 1994. Cleveland Magazine named him Best Local Performer for 1998; and the Cleveland Free Times chose him
as the '99 winner of their Open Mike competition. Henke maintains a busy solo performance schedule of about 300 shows per year at various venues
throughout the U.S.
"Both hands are everywhere, all the time, often doing the work of two or more guitarists at once. At any moment, he'll bounce effortlessly from a chimey harmonic pattern to a vibrant hum to an ominous wall of sound . . ."
— The [Cleveland] Free Times
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