Joep Beving - Henosis 🏆

my role: producer, sound designer, recording, mixer

We long wanted to go beyond the piano and introduce synthesizers, choir and orchestra in Joeps music because we both come from a more electronic music background. It only happened ever so slightly in Impermanence on Prehension. In the closing chapter of the trilogy that started with Solipsism and Prehension Joep wanted to go deeper.

The demos for Henosis were finished in 2017 and it took the most of 2018 to transcribe, record and mix all tracks.

Strings and choir were orchestrated by Max Knoth and we recorded Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg in their amazing studio, the Echo Collective in Jet Sound and Cappella Amsterdam in Wisseloord. Organ recorded by Misja van den Burg in a New York church. 3 tracks were produced and mixed by Maarten Vos.

It was a great project with great people. Recording and mixing more than 500 tracks into 2. Some real technical challenges like recording in 432, 440 and 442 Hz. And we delivered the whole album in the natural frequency of 432 Hz. Creating a sonic journey of almost 2 hours of sonic shapes and Joeps stories, blending the acoustics with the electronics, classical and the present moment.

Mastered by Zino Mikorey.

Thanks to Joep for taking me on these musical adventures and Christian Badzura, A&R of Deutsche Grammophon, for his advice and feedback.

In November 2019 we were honoured to receive the Dutch Edison Award🏆. Joep comments:

“… you have been the ultimate wingman in this adventure, we made this record together. Thank you for all the passion, skill and damn hard work.”

A film was created by Rahi Rezvani in 3 Movements:

Listen to the album in your favorite player here.

In the press:

"this rich amalgamation of electrical sounds and classical traditions are realized perfectly with history resolving itself into present moments. Henosis is a music searching for something lost. And now found."

Magazine Sixty

"A touching and beautiful masterpiece, with a smooth and warm production."

Art’s Excellence

"... We then find ourselves in a game of communicating vessels: here we draw the fragrances of the classical repertoire, there elements of electronic rhythm. One feeds on the other."

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