Ken Hensley

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to give you all an update on the progress of my new CD,

" Love… and other mysteries "…..

All the tracks are done and the record is about 75% complete. As you may have seen (and if not, why not?) this is a very busy month for me so I am running between the studio and shows all over the place but we are making fantastic progress.

Glenn Hughes sang a stunning duet with Santra Salkova, a beautiful and wonderful young female vocalist from Bulgaria, Pau Chafer, a young genius from Valencia is handling all of the (real) piano stuff and his stunning partner Sarah Rope will bring a voice that it is incredible to two songs, one in Spanish.

We have two great vocal performances from Irene Fornaciari (the daughter of Zuchero) and Roberto Tiranti who bring a flavour of Tuscany to the record and, later this month, my favourite Viking (and the lead singer of Live Fire, among other things) Eirikur Hauksson is coming to Spain to add his magic.

To record Matt dela Pola's great string arrangements we have brought in a quartet from Cuba who are so good it's scary!!

Throw in the extreme talent of my studio guys, Ovidio Lopez, Juan Carlos Garcia and Antonio Fidel, mix it with Dani's very special gift as engineer and co-producer and the support of everyone at the record company and maybe you can get a little sense for what an exciting time it is.

The CD itself will be very different from Blood On The Highway and, to my delight, it represents some big steps forward for me as a lyricist and composer.

From the beginning we allowed the songs to direct the production and this has been a challenging, if slightly risky approach, resulting in some pretty incredible results.

We started with the songs as the focus (more specifically, the lyrics) and this has allowed us to understand exactly what each individual song was asking for as we recorded it/them. It also means that the CD will come with a lot of bonus pieces designed to help you share this focus and take the songs as you want to or need to.

The first video is done and waiting only for the final audio mix. We shot it in St. Petersburg, Russia, with director Igor Burloff.

I am happy and I am presently blessed with good health so I can give 100% of my energy to these various musical projects.

As we get closer to being able to predict a release date, we will announce it here so please stay tuned …

"And so, this thing called love remains a mystery,

Until we find out who it is that holds the key,

The greatest love awaits us all, yes, you and me,

And the wonder of it all is that it's free!"