ADRESSE
Rotenbüschle 25
76228 Karlsruhe
Germany
KONTAKT
Mail: shore@mailbox.org
Phone: 0151 70156130
All rights reserved by Sven Horlemann 2008 - 2019
BANDS 1985 - 1996
Humble beginnings
Self-taught with no patience for a teacher, hours of daily excercise, stubborness and
the will to get better made me the guitar and bass player I am today.
I enjoyed every day, every hour I put into making music. I don’t regret any band
I played in or that I left the music business as a professional altogether. The place were I am now is
perfect in every imaginable way. Let’s rock!
BANDS 1997 - 2007
More bands & starting my own studio
My first ever recording was done on a 2-track cassette tape recorder,
just guitars and a singer. The ‘band’ was called Fireraiser, the year was
1985. I still have the recording...
Making music got more serious when I teamed up with Wolfgang Roch,
a seasoned guitar player who took me under his wings. We formed
Rockforce and did a 3 song demo on a 4 track. Moving on we re-named
the band to Target Eagle, found additional players and did another
demo tape. Target Eagle is the first time I met Andy Sachs, a guitarist
turned bass player who accompanies my musical journey until today.
Making it 30 years!
1987 also marks the first ever international release under the Sven
Horlemann moniker. Produced by Wolfgang, we recorded 4
instrumental tracks in the local music shop ROCKSHOP in Karlsruhe
(after hours of course). Pretty heavy and fast stuff... at least at the time.
It was so cool to get fan mail from all over Europe! And with mail I mean
postal letters.
In an effort to get a major deal I was writing and auditioning material
with Peter Winter for Ariola München. It was very busy phase and I am
still thankful to Alfred Koffler of Pink Cream 69 for connecting me with
Peter. On drums groove monster Marcel Millot, on bass Peter ‘Zegge’
Zechiel.
Nothing serious developed, so in 1991 Zegge and myself found
drummer Georg Schantze and formed the power trio Changes. We did a
demo, gigged and disbanded.
Changes played pretty progressive stuff and gave me all opportunities
to reach out as a songwriter and arranger.
I did carry on with new musicians, changing the direction to a more
accessible sound. We decided to keep the name. Changes (MkII) led to
my first time in a real
recording studio making the
‘Aliteration’ demo in ‘93. Until
today I really like what we did
then. Great songs, great
musicians and with Michael
Waidelich we had a superb
singer.
Years passed and Changes
folded. I did play some guitar
on the Zoolum project from
Michael. Ex-Changes bass
player Norbert Dreikluft
invited me to play with
drummer Andreas Engels. One of the best sessions I ever did. And one
of the best drummers I ever played with. Groove baby! Everyone was
enthusiastic and in 1995 Spread was born. The female singer left,
Eberhard Ruck joined on vocals / gutiar and the band renamed
themselves Three Mile Smile. With „Ebo Rock“ we put more rock into
our grooves. Looking back I can say: What a joy to play with them. I just
wish we‘d gig more often.
In 1997 I joined Klaus Schmuck aka Jerry Can - a pop rock band that
had it already made on nationwide TV in Germany in 1998.
Klaus was known as singer and bass player of Starstruck one of the few
bands from the Karlsruhe area with a recording deal. Klaus had worked
all over Germany as session musician earning him credentials and
experiences through multiple TV features from 1989 onwards.
Guess who played bass on the first album - yep, Andy Sachs who also
introduced me to Klaus.
Musically Jerry Can was the most ‘pop’ sounding music I ever made. We
played some classy gigs, stripped down the band to an acoustic guitar
duo.
Recording was done on Klaus’ 8 track tape machine
also using an ATARI computer. Those were the days...
When Klaus decided to take a break from music it was
he who encouraged me to start recording and
producing.
With the 90's nearly done, the musical landscape
completely changed (at least for hard rock), I felt it
the right time to start all over. I started with Cubase
VST 5, switched to Steinberg's NUENDO and went
back to Cubase in 2011. Today I use Cubase 9.5 PRO
and love it.
In the 2000's I wrote, recorded and mixed several CD's, largely
unreleased. It was me trying to understand not so much the engineering,
but the mixing of records. There was no YouTube (imagine this!).
No hands on music production tips ‘Produce Like a Pro’ or ‚Pensados
Place‘ give you. Again it was the recording team of the ROCKSHOP
Karlsruhe that supported beyond duty, especially Tom Lichtenwalter and
Frank Herzog.
I did 5 Shore records. That was me with an attempt to sing, the style rock
with light progressive ideas underneath. As Sven Horlemann I also
made one (unreleased) solo album - The Nature Of Things. It was my
first production of instrumental songs since the ‘87
demo tape.
During these years I recorded & mixed 2 Jerry Can
records.
In 2006 I started recording some heavy rock songs
and asked Klaus to sing on them. We loved the results
and formed a new band: Ocean Bed were born. Andy
Sachs joined on bass and Ocean Bed independantly
released 3 records and 1 EP.
High Road Easy
2008 singer Jan Knopf and I met on a melodic rock festival. We decided
to set up a songwriting session and immediately formed the melodic
rock band High Road Easy. We released our debut ‚Hotter Than A
Thousand Suns' in 2009. In 2011, the second album called 'drive' was
released. The third record is called 'III' and was released April 2015. End
of 2018 we started working on a follow up. More information about
High Road Easy is available at highroadeasy.com.
Going solo (again)
2009 also marks the release of my first ‚proper‘ solo
album. ‘in.com.plete’ is an all instrumental rock album,
very much inspired by classical music, themes and
motifs. Something I wanted to do for a long time.
Cover bands & playing live
I joined Andy‘s current cover band Educated Guess. We
played a few gigs, had fun in the rehearsals and I ended
up producing a demo tape with 4 tracks, again all cover
tunes.
Following this I helped out as a bass player in Jan‘s
classic rock cover band Juke Box Heroes. This engagement lasted 3
years until the band had run its course.
Studio work & more releases by High Road Easy and Sven
Horlemann
While finishing up the latest High Road Easy CD I worked on my 2nd
solo album 'Standing Tall' which was released in 2013. Three of the
songs features vocals by Klaus Schmuck.
Beginning of 2015 I was looking for a new songwriting partner for Sven
Horlemann as I prefer records that are not completely instrumental.
Luckily I found singer / guitar player Udo Maurer. In October 2015 I
started working on another solo record which became ‚Happy Turns To
Blue‘, released 2017.
Following the ubiquitous trend to digital releases, 2018 I released a
trilogy of EP‘s exclusively on bandcamp.com. Each EP consisting of 2
instrumental and 2 songs with Udo singing. They are called ‚Wonderful
Things‘ (EP I), Come In‘ (EP II) and ‚Tiny Packages‘ (EP III). Each EP is
accompanied by promotional videos.
Interestingly, this also means 2018 is the first year I did not release a
retail CD.
In all things High Road Easy Jan and myself started working on some
leftovers doing a proper production on them. That turned out so good
that we decided to write even more songs. Starting 2019 I am confident
we will have another HRE CD hitting the shelfs.
This is it - my musical journey as of today.
I really enjoyed revisiting the past and I hope
you enjoyed reading it.
I want to thank my good friend Andy Sachs for
helping me getting all the details right.
Cheers,
Sven
last updated February 18th, 2019
BANDS 2008 - 2019
High Road Easy / Solo releases