Bernadette La Hengst: Mein neues Album

Since my last album „Integrate me Baby“ of 2012 I have collected many songs—so the time has come to release a new Bernadette La Hengst album. I’m not finished yet, but I can reveal to you some of the details: There will be some hits out of my theatre project „Basic Singing Income Granted“, as well as a lovesong from the view of an african refugee called „We Gonna Stay Here“, one other lovesong to the umbrella revolution in Hongkong called „Streets of Hong… Mehr anzeigen

My new album will be like the my previous albums: a mixture of songs composed or inspired by different theatre projects and other stand alone songs without a theatre connection. It would be great to reach all people who already love my music or will love my music in future: people inspired by the idea that you must dance to realize the revolution we need.
Here are a few sentences about who I am for those who are just getting to know me:
„... Straight, angry… Mehr anzeigen

I have always believed and supported the aims, values and aspirations of small independant record labels. But there finances are limited and increasingly stretched in today’s society. That is why I decided to fund the recording and mixing of my new album with your help in order to stay independant and stay true to the Bernadette La Hengst soundI don’t know yet which label will release the new album, but I hope through the crowdfunding site Startnext I wil… Mehr anzeigen

The money will pay the rent for my own studio in Berlin, where I will record the lion’s share of my album. It will also cover the costs of the additional recordings and mixing in the Hamburg studio of my co-producer Peta Devlin. I will also be paying additional recordings in P4 studio Nalepastraße in Berlin and above all I want to properly pay my guest musicians like the violonist Ruth May, the cellist Claudia Wiedemer, the drummer Wanja Saatkamp or the … Mehr anzeigen

Bernadette La Hengst
I have been a musician for over 25 years and have lived in Berlin since 2004: during the 1990s I was the singer and guitarist of the Hamburg-based girl-pop-punk-band „Die Braut haut ins Auge“ (the bride strikes in the eye). Since 2000 I have released 4 solo albums brining my own brand of disco-agitation-chansons into the world as Bernadette La Hengst.
Today digitalisation makes it more and more difficult to live from writing and pe… Mehr anzeigen