One thing I did come away from AC/DC with is that it's about the feel. It sounds simple, but it's
not about the technicality of it. It's about the swing and the feel of it.
- SIMON WRIGHT (ex-AC/DC)
Mostly known as a rock guitarist and his band High Road Easy,
Sven Horlemann is a multi-instrumentalist who works as a producer,
mixer and engineer in his studio in Karlsruhe, Germany.
As solo artist his albums deliver a mixture of classic rock songs as well
as instrumental rock tracks.
The latest CD is called Wonderful Things Come In Tiny Packages and
was released May 2019. Again it features singer Udo Maurer, who‘s
raspy timbre adds a blues rock / hard rock feel and drummer Magnus
Brandell.
With his band High Road Easy Sven released 3 full length records.
ABOUT
INTRODUCTION
A powerful melodic rock band featuring power house vocalist Jan Knopf.
As of 2020 a new High Road Easy album was released in April, 2nd.
On a side note Sven also does all the photo and video shooting and
loves creating visual concepts for the CD booklets, websites etc.
The youtube channel features lyric videos, performance videos and the
odd equipment review.
Sven enjoys the luxury of a broad musical taste that ranges from metal /
rock / pop to classical music. Not entirely surprising for a studied
musicologist who is a rocker at heart.
I think I have many, many, many songs that could have done very, very well commercially had I
been a part of the machine. There's a machine — there's gatekeepers (...) in the music business.
(…) You need that machine. Otherwise, you're just kind of out there.
- RICHIE KOTZEN, The Winery Dogs (on the „Rockin‘ You All Night“ podcast, 2018)
VIDEOS
ALL VIDEOS AVAILABLE ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Sven Horlemann
MIRRORS NEVER LIE
02/11/2016 The first track singer Udo Maurer and I wrote. Based on an instrumental I am amazed how Udo came up with his ideas making this a great song.Sven Horlemann
CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL
20/11/2016 Opener and hardest track of HAPPY TURNS TO BLUE this song was written inspired by an African rhythm drummer Magnus Brandell offered.Sven Horlemann
ON MY WAY
02/02/2017 More commercial rocker, this is another favorite from the HAPPY TURNS TO BLUE album. Again Udo did a super job coming up with melodies.High Road Easy
DARKNESS AND JOY
26/02/2016 Darkness And Joy deserved a lyric video - it is one of the favorite tracks from High Road Easy‘s third CD III. It was even played on London radio stations several times!High Road Easy
DRIVE ALBUM PROMO
01/11/2012 High Road Easy‘s 2nd album ‚Drive‘ got an album promotion with several songs to listen to - it is one of the most played videos from HRE.Guitar Review
REVIEW VIDEO
30/03/2017 For years I have been looking for a classic stratocaster type of guitar. Former Fender master builder John Page‘s The Ashburn finally delivers - this is my review.(MORE) LINKS TO LISTEN | STREAM | BUY
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NAVIGATION
TEILEN
ADRESSE
Rotenbüschle 25
76228 Karlsruhe
Germany
KONTAKT
Mail: shore@mailbox.org
Phone: 0151 70156130
All rights reserved by Sven Horlemann 2008 - 2020
PHOTOS
A SELECTION OF PICS FROM 1987 ONWARDS
(…) everything we did was a natural reflection of who we were and what kind of players we were
and what kind of dreams we had.
- GEDDY LEE, Rush (Rolling Stone, 2018)
REVIEWS (GERMAN / ENGLISH)
05/04/2020 rocktimes.info (2020): „(…) "Wonderful Things Come In Small Packages" markiert den vierten Longplayer des Musikers, der verstanden hat, dass man im Rockbereich schwerlich ohne echten Drummer auskommt und so mit Magnus Brandell einen solchen im Line- up hat. Und auch einen Mann am Micro gibt es: Udo Maurer, mit dem er seit ein paar Jahren zusammenarbeitet. Und das ist gut, denn es verhindert, was ich bei vielen reinen Gitarrenalben erlebe, dass sich die Saitenhexer nämlich in ihren Frickeleien verlieren. (…) Stilistisch hören wir Hard Rock, gar ein wenig proggige Tunes ("Wonderful Things", "Master Of Illusion"), Melodic-, Classic Rock und "Going Beyond" kratzt sehr angenehm am Fusion-Genre. Innerhalb dieser so unterschiedlichen Stile fährt Sven natürlich schon Geschütze auf. Licks, Power Chords und Soli, die zwar gekonnt wie aus dem Ärmel geschossen daherkommen, aber niemals die mitmusizierenden Partner vor Probleme stellen. Sven hat sein Können im Griff und gerade die Spielweise, es nicht beweisen oder zeigen zu müssen, macht ihn zu einem hervorragenden Saitenbediener. Und immer finden sich austarierte Melodien, Harmonien und Hooks. Wenn der Begriff ’songdienlich spielen' irgendwo eine Berechtigung hat, dann hier. Sven hält sich an die Regel, die da lautet: Nie mehr Munition verschießen, als nötig – auch wenn das Arsenal bis zum Bersten gefüllt ist.“LATEST :: QUICK START
…AND CHECK OUT MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
LATEST VIDEOS
02/05/2020 Let me point out the videos for TRUE TO YOUR SOUL and GOING BEYOND, the first featuring singer Udo Maurer. Secondly, my band HIGH ROAD EASY released a new album in 2020 and some videos to promote it.Sven Horlemann
WONDERFUL THINGS
16/07/2018 WONDERFUL THINGS from the EP I 'Wonderful Things', released June 2018. A lovely track. And shot in a great location for a video.Live in the studio!
WISHES
31/03/2018 This is me revisiting the lovely ballad WISHES from the 2009 album IN.COM.PLETE. All recorded live, I play my ZEAL Custom Hydra into a Kemper.Sven Horlemann
I CAN SEE
16/07/2017 One of the tracks from the HAPPY TURNS TO BLUE album everyone seems to like. It features the amazing vocals by Lena Maurer. Enjoy!
NEW SINGLE DIGITAL RELEASE!
02/05/2019
One of my favorite guitar players is Joe Satriani. For an
OddGrooves competition I wrote ‚Satch A Lockdown‘ - and I dig it.
Free listen here: Satch A Lockdown (digital bandcamp single)
Quick links to my latest album WONDERFUL THINGS COME IN TINY
PACKAGES here: shorlemann-wonderful
For a free listen on all my music, please start on my bandcamp
page - Thank you!
INTERVIEW (ENGLISH)
12/06/2015 An interview with Sven for High Road Easy from back when we did lots of promo for radio and magazines to spread the word.
HIGHLIGHT! As German musicians we grew up with Gitarre & Bass (formerly
Fachblatt Musikmagazin), the best and oldest nationwide music magazine. To
finally make it into the magazine not only with HIGH ROAD EASY, but also
getting a favorable mention for the solo works as SVEN HORLEMANN, that
really made our day!
Quick links to the new album here: shorlemann-wonderful
Direct links include Spotify, Apple music, Apple iTunes, Amazon
music, You tube music, Google play, Deezer, tidal, CD Baby and
more.
Musicreviews.de (2017)
„(…) Eben durch seinen Vortrag gewinnen die
Kompositionen eine besondere Kennung, während der
Namensgeber des Projekts auf hohem Niveau
songdienlich spielt, wie es von Joe Satriani bis Michael
Sagmeister so einige Größen vormachen. Zwei
Bassisten, ein fester Schlagzeuger und nicht zuletzt
Gastsängerin Lena Maurer halfen Horlemann letztlich
dabei, "Happy Turns To Blue" die Atmosphäre eines
richtigen Bandalbums zu verleihen - ein großes Plus,
besonders unter ansonsten "einsamen" Solomuckern.
FAZIT: Statt Akrobatik Dienst am prototypischen Song,
so wie er sein sollte - auf natürliche Weise zugänglich,
emotional greifbar und selbstverständlich auch in
handwerklichen Belangen ansprechend … SVEN
HORLEMANN erfüllt diese Anforderungen mit "Happy
Turns To Blue" bravourös und ist somit viel, viel mehr als
nur ein lokaler Möchtegern-Gitarrenheld.“
ABOUT
INTRODUCTION
Mostly known as a rock guitarist and his band
High Road Easy,
Sven Horlemann is a multi-instrumentalist who
works as a producer, mixer and engineer in his
studio in Karlsruhe, Germany.
As solo artist his albums deliver a mixture of
classic rock songs as well as instrumental rock
tracks.
The latest CD is called Wonderful Things Come
In Tiny Packages and was released May 2019.
Again it features singer Udo Maurer, who‘s raspy
timbre adds a blues rock / hard rock feel and
drummer Magnus Brandell.
With his band High Road Easy Sven released 3
full length records.
A powerful melodic rock band featuring power
house vocalist Jan Knopf. As of 2020 a new High
Road Easy album was released in April, 2nd.
On a side note Sven also does all the photo and
video shooting and loves creating visual concepts
for the CD booklets, websites etc.
The youtube channel features lyric videos,
performance videos and the odd equipment
review.
Sven enjoys the luxury of a broad musical taste
that ranges from metal / rock / pop to classical
music. Not entirely surprising for a studied
musicologist who is a rocker at heart.
PHOTOS
A SELECTION OF PICS FROM 1987 ONWARDS
I think I have many, many, many
songs that could have done very,
very well commercially had I been
a part of the machine. There's a
machine — there's gatekeepers (...)
in the music business. (…) You
need that machine. Otherwise,
you're just kind of out there.
- RICHIE KOTZEN, The Winery Dogs (on the
„Rockin‘ You All Night“ podcast, 2018)
(…) everything we did was a
natural reflection of who we were
and what kind of players we were
and what kind of dreams we had.
- GEDDY LEE, Rush (Rolling Stone, 2018)
One thing I did come away from
AC/DC with is that it's about the
feel. It sounds simple, but it's not
about the technicality of it. It's
about the swing and the feel of
it.
- SIMON WRIGHT (ex-AC/DC)
Sven Horlemann
MIRRORS NEVER LIE
02/11/2016 The first track singer Udo Maurer and I wrote. Based on an instrumental I am amazed how Udo came up with his ideas making this a great song.Sven Horlemann
CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL
20/11/2016 Opener and hardest track of HAPPY TURNS TO BLUE this song was written inspired by an African rhythm drummer Magnus Brandell offered.Sven Horlemann
ON MY WAY
02/02/2017 More commercial rocker, this is another favorite from the HAPPY TURNS TO BLUE album. Again Udo did a super job coming up with melodies.High Road Easy
DARKNESS AND JOY
26/02/2016 Darkness And Joy deserved a lyric video - it is one of the favorite tracks from High Road Easy‘s third CD III. It was even played on London radio stations several times!High Road Easy
DRIVE ALBUM PROMO
01/11/2012 High Road Easy‘s 2nd album ‚Drive‘ got an album promotion with several songs to listen to - it is one of the most played videos from HRE.Guitar Review
REVIEW VIDEO
30/03/2017 For years I have been looking for a classic stratocaster type of guitar. Former Fender master builder John Page‘s The Ashburn finally delivers - this is my review.
NAVIGATION
TEILEN
ADRESSE
Rotenbüschle 25
76228 Karlsruhe
Germany
KONTAKT
Mail:
shore@mailbox.org
Phone: 0151
70156130
All rights reserved by Sven Horlemann 2020
NEW ALBUM OUT
New digital single out!
Free listen here:
Satch A Lockdown
Quick links to major streaming /
download sites for my album
WONDERFUL THINGS COME IN TINY
PACKAGES:
shorlemann-wonderful
Direct links include Spotify, Apple music,
Amazon music, You tube music, Google
play, Deezer, tidal, CD Baby and more.
SVEN HORLEMANN
