What Shall We Preserve?

from The Dream is to Dream by Henning Ohlenbusch

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Henning's new solo album is a dreamy journey into life over the past few years. Disillusionment in the way the world works and with those around us leading to questions about what is important, what is worth keeping, how do we live? A celebration of the natural world, the consistency of the seasons, those moments and people that we hold dear. This is wandering music, three instrumental dreams anchor the rest of the songs which float atop howling and sliding lap steel guitar. The songs are their own people but the album is the family. Meet one at a time or dive into all of them at once. It's not a movie, but it's almost a movie. There's an arc. A beginning and an end. We start off questioning where we are going and we end up where we started. At home.

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Who will take care of the old gray house
Now that the family has moved away
Underneath the weight of its history
Underneath the limb of the favorite shade tree
What shall we preserve?

Who will record the lived-in years
Who will unearth all the memories there
Shrinking in the rain and cracking in the sun
One by one the bricks of a chimney undone
What shall we preserve?

What should we keep?
What should we keep?
What should we keep?
What shall we keep?
What should we keep?
And for how long?
And for whom?

Let the moss roll in let the vines grow wild
Let the earth reclaim its exhausted child
‘Til all that remains is the outline of the stones
A memory of itself in the woods all alone
What shall we preserve?

What should we keep?
What should we keep?
What should we keep?
What shall we keep?
What should we keep?
And for how long?
And for whom?
What should we keep?
What should we keep?
What should we keep?
What shall we keep?
What should we keep?
And for how long?
And for whom?

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from The Dream is to Dream, released June 3, 2022

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Henning Ohlenbusch Northampton, Massachusetts

Your friend and songwriter also found in the bands Gentle Hen, The Fawns, and Polaris.

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