Henning Pauly (Chain, Storyteller, Frameshift) was born in Weilburg, Hessen, Germany and grew up in Hirschhausen, Germany. At the age of 15 he started playing guitar at the suggestion of his friends and he started to take guitar lessons from guitar teacher Kuno Wagner, a world renown Warr Guitar player. In May 1997 he moved to Boston where he studied for 3 years at Berklee College of Music and graduated from his dual major in “Contemporary Writing and Production” and “Music Synthesis” with a summa-cum-laude in may 2000.
His teachers suggested that he should move to Los Angeles to try his luck. He took their advice, packed all his belongings in a truck and moved to LA. He was hired by a small ad agency to run their newly built studio. Here he produced songwriters and bands and basically did what he loved to do. In his spare time he re-discovered his passion for progressive rock in the form of old tapes from his former band Chain and started re-producing this music. What was supposed to be a hobby on the weekends and a little CD Christmas gift for the former band members turned out to be a full length CD that people seemed to be interested in. After sending out just one copy to an internet radio station, the label that was attached to the station offered to sign the album and a couple of copies started to be sold. Suddenly the label started talking about a possible project with James LaBrie which turned into the Frameshift.
After Chain – Reconstruct and Frameshift with James LaBrie Henning Pauly started working on the second Chain album (chain.exe) and the double CD rock opera Babysteps. Working on these two major projects in parallel turned out to be overwhelming, so he decided to take 13 days off and not think about progressive rock for a while and produce a whole album during his time off. 13 songs in 13 days. He wanted to create some straight forward rock music, so he limited himself strictly to guitars, bass and drums. He decided to ask all the great vocalists he knows to be involved. He lined up 11 vocalists to sing the 13 songs, two of them each sing 2 songs. The songs didn’t all turn out to be straight forward rock…the album contains metal, blues, blues rock, alternative, pop and most certainly some prog elements…he just couldn’t get away from it.
Artist: Henning Pauly
Album: 13 Days
Year: 2004
Label: ProgRock Records
Style: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Format: mp3/320
Vocalists on 13 Days:
Jody Ashworth – Trans Siberian Orchestra / Babysteps
Adam Evers – Solo Artist
Joe Capraro – Elseworth / Endgam
Maya Haddi – Solo Artist / Babysteps
Edward Heppenstall – Solo Artist
Matt Cash – Solo Artist / Chain / Frameshift / Babysteps
Jason McSheehy – Endgam
Nik Guadagnoli – Frameshift
Victoria Trevithick – Solo Artist
Arthur Blume – Solo Artist
Charles Chemery – Julia Fly
Tracklist
01 I’ve Had Enough 4:54
02 All I Ever Wanted 4:44
03 Three 5:09
04 Forever Young 3:55
05 I’d Like To 5:46
06 Six 5:48
07 Seven 5:32
08 No Little Girl 4:51
09 Infrared 6:43
10 Nothing Is Forever 6:22
11 Waiting For A Revolution 4:53
12 When Kings & Queens Collide 5:40
13 13 Days / Album Credits 15:59