Rock/Popular Music, as I interpret it, should try to reflect not only emotion but the mastery of different musical forms in order to make its meaning deeper. The central character of the music is playing/acting a part, and the voice is the only vehicle through which this expression of emotions and thoughts can occur. In Rock / Popular music, the lyrics give immediate meaning, but sometimes are limited in their emotional range and expression by the very definitions of the words. This can be remedied by increasing the implied feelings within the voice, chord structure, and vocal inflection. In Rock / Popular music, the present is here and now. The emotional and mental consideration of action is here and now, and the past and future are referred to wistfully but not actualized. I can only hope that I have combined many techniques successfully in order to produce and relate deeper emotions and feelings to my audiences they relate and return the understanding of the music.
The first album is indeed the artistic musical signpost that leads you into a new dimension – and gives an indication of where you are heading. It is a direction that is different and unique compared to what went onward before. The Broken Signpost lies dead ahead…….Where are you destined to?
The Broken Signpost
The Broken Signpost
Her Own Clone #
Legs* #
The Exemplar
Disrupt Them Outside
Try To Smile
Ode To Know One
Night Of Smoke
Waiting
Little Mad Doctor
I Don't Know #
Mysterious Rendezvous
In The Shadows # ^
Faces Of The Clock
All songs composed by R D Henker except * R D Henker/Volpe
All instruments / drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, percussion & vocals R D Henker unless otherwise noted:
# Mr. Dan Volpe – contributing lead guitar
^Mr. Jeff Bunag – on drums
Listen to"Legs"
Listen to "In the shadows"
Imagine being invited to a cocktail party where all of the guests are your ex-wives and girlfriends along with their husbands and boyfriends. This will obviously be an evening of great superhuman self-control and cautious introspection. Yet you can’t help pondering, as you hear whispered subtle insults, sly put downs, and embarrassing personal revelations, that it would be easier to regress into insanity instead of trying to cope with this affront rationally. This is the reactionary psychedelic struggle – a choice between oblivious insanity or justifiable angry rationality?
Eternal Recurrence
The Endless Midnight Cocktail Party
You Can Hear Me Scream Sometimes
Tell Me ^
Being Of Like Mind
So Far, So Fair
The Dinner Guest
Contemplation In A Song Not Long
Arriving By Mad Train
The Nature Of Her Face
One Is A Ghost* ^
The Lost Dream
And Realize
Someday Somehow Somewhere I’ll Love Someone Someday
Just One More Thought In A Song Not Long
Another Fit Of Screaming*
Dementia In Your Sleep*
I Say Goodbye
Filled With Stones ^
Psychotic Seizure / Mazed Blues
Party’s End At Daybreak
Listen to "Dementia in your sleep"
Listen to "And realize"
Listen to "Someday Somehow Somewhere I'll Love Someone Soon Someday"
The third album of the trilogy. Insanity and surrealism have at least one feature in common; transcendence. To meditate deep is to connect with the other side of the mind, spirit and soul. All is illusion, and recovery takes the form of transcendent realities. Enter into the inner world. Journey through mara to reach the next itself.
Asleep deep in the language
Twilight interlude / Forest full of dreams
Turning opaque
Sorrow in silhouette
Inside our God of pride
Nothing
The sky
Hostile words
Change
Impermanence
Light
The mirror
Vipassana clouds
So deep inside
Karma
Sunrise
Listen to "The Mirror"
Listen to"So deep inside"
Listen to "Nothing"
Listen to "Karma"