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Henning Pauly - “Babysteps”

Reviewed by: Jerry Lucky
Genre: Prog Rock
Country: USA
Language: English
Length: 75:41
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Band Members: Pauly Henning Guitars, Bass, Keyboards Jody Ashworth, James LaBrie, Michael Sadler, Matt cash, jill Gioia, maya Haddi, Vocals
  Al Pitrelli Guitars Ian Chrichton Guitars
  Alan Morse Guitars David Ragsdale Violin, Guiitar
  John Zahnder Keyboards

Guests:

Ian Crichton Guitar solo on track 9---

Jim Gilmour Keyboards solos on track 6

Track Listing: 1.)- The Cafe 1 8.)-What Do You Know
  2.)- I Don't Need You 9.)- The Cafe 4
  3.)- Listen To Me 10.)-The Door
  4.)-The Cafe 2 11.)-I See
  5.)- Not Just A Piece Of Paper 12.)-The Last Song
  6.)-Whenever You Dream  
  7.)-A Place In Time
     
The Review

I don’t think anyone could have predicted just how big the world of heavy metal would become, nor how it would come to form such a large sub-genre as prog metal. The foundation for heavy metal music is quite simple really; it needs to be loud, aggressive, and mostly uptempo. But as the saying goes, “the devil is in the details,” and this is where prog-metal makes a significant departure from plain old, straight ahead metal music and all its permutations. And this is where we introduce Henning Pauly and his new release entitled Babysteps. ***

With a fulltime job working at a commercial-music jingle house, Pauly moonlights at his passion crafting prog-metal that is clearly a notch above the standard fare. With a ton of musical “book learning” behind him Pauly puts his ample talents to work performing all the instruments here but calling upon the likes of Jody Ashworth, James LaBrie, Matt Cash and Michael Sadler to handle the vocals. Babysteps is Henning Pauly’s seventh release if you count his other projects like Chain and Frameshift. And like the others this is complex prog-metal with plenty of notes flying around. The CD’s concept follows the life of a professional athlete as he goes through his rehabilitation after being consigned to a wheelchair, hence the title Babysteps. Musically the CD’s hour and fifteen minutes incorporate fifteen tracks of varying lengths, three of which are just over seven-minutes and the longest being a little over nine-minutes. Some of the shorter pieces are more like instrumental bridges creating moods and drama. Sometimes the vocalists use spoken passages to again reinforce the characters traumatic internal conflict. Each of the voices performs a character in the storyline and as such the music is devised to reinforce the person’s place in the story, with some obviously being angrier sounding than others. As a counterpoint to the crunchy metal guitar Pauly uses a lot of piano throughout the CD, in fact it is the most prevalent keyboard other than a few organ pads here and there; it’s the piano, usually in a solo mode that sets a kind of poignant tone for the pain the hero is going through as well as a musical counterpoint to the guitars. ***

I must say that prog metal is not my primary cup of tea, but there is no denying the talent that is brought to bear here on Babysteps. Henning Pauly has a considerable following and I’m sure they will thoroughly enjoy Babysteps. If you enjoy your progressive rock on the heavy guitar oriented side then this is clearly a CD for you. ***

 

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