Peter Rusch & George Hennig have shared friendship and a musical partnership for more than four and a half decades. After starting out together 1974 (picture) with ’Wishing Well’, Peter became 1978 the leading member of ’The Zodiacs’ whilst George tried his luck in several bands.
Diese Produktion aus Sicht des Produktionsteams als schwierige Erfahrung zu bezeichnen wäre in mancher Hinsicht masslos untertrieben. Alle an der Produktion Beteiligten sind froh, dass das Ende in Sicht ist. Die grafische Gestaltung sowie der Misch- und Mastering-Prozess sind abgeschlossen.
Playback Rough Mix of the Song “Like Feathers” from the forthcoming album “Hillside” is available as clip on youTube
A celebration of 40 years of R’n’R, the Zodiac’s new album “This Starshine Moment” was performed before an enthusiastic sold-out audience at the legendary ‘Atlantis’ venue in Basel.
In October 2018, Olivier Truan and George Hennig came together with the Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Oleg Kondratenko at the FAME’s Studio in Skopje to record 13 tracks for George’s forthcoming Album “Hillside”.
“Hillside” – collaboration with Olivier Truan
For the 12 Tracks on his new album “Hillside”, George Hennig will collaborate with composer and arranger Olivier Truan. Olivier will transform George’s compositions (already recorded as demos) into miniature “symphonic pop-tunes” composed for a 44-piece orchestra. Hennig and Truan will travel to Skopje in October 2018 to record the twelve tracks with the Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra ‘F.A.M.E.’S.’.
Such a fortunate coincidence took place in late 2017 on a social-media forum between George Hennig and the Italian surrealistic painter Ettore Aldo Del Vigo. George was so impressed by the atmospheric power and expressivity of Ettores world of pictures that he spontaneously asked Ettore if he would be interested in creating a cover design for a pop-album.
Gerd Schwalm von Radio X Frankfurt hat einen illustren Basler Interview- und Musik-Cocktail zusammengestellt, in dem besides Laurin Buser, Bordeaux Lip, Bettina Schelker, Vincent Gross auch George Hennig und The Zodiacs zum Zug kommen.
www.radiox.de am 1. Februar 2018, von 13:08 Uhr – 14 Uhr.
From Shakespeare to Madonna, there are millions of love songs; some of them are silly & frivolous – but there are also very many deeply moving songs about true love & compassion performed by such great artists as Burt Bacharach, Lennon & McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling, Abba with “Waterloo” & Peter Hammill’s “Vision”.