Keaton Henson (born 24 March 1988) is an English folk rock musician, visual… Read Full Bio ↴Keaton Henson (born 24 March 1988) is an English folk rock musician, visual artist and poet from London.
As a musician Henson usually sings and plays guitar. Henson suffers from serious stage fright and, as a result, he rarely plays concerts. His art show "Hithermost" took place at the Pertwee, Anderson & Gold gallery in London in January 2013 and "sold quickly". He has also released a wordless graphic novel called "Gloaming", published by Pocko, which is "essentially a field guide to a spirit world beyond our reality".
Keaton Henson was born in 1988 in London, England. He is the son of actor Nicky Henson and ballet dancer Marguerite Porter.
Originally Henson was an illustrator. He designed the artwork for various albums including Dananananaykroyd's Hey Everyone! and Enter Shikari's Take to the Skies. Henson recorded songs in his apartment in London, initially purely for his own consumption. He gave a recording of one of the songs as a gift for his best friend, and was encouraged to put music online. In November 2010 his debut album Dear was released on Motive Sounds Recordings, in a limited edition which he made by hand himself. In 2011 he released a single, "Metaphors", on Porchlight Records. He also recorded "Don't Be Afraid" for the Tormented soundtrack.
Henson's breakthrough came when Zane Lowe played "You Don't Know How Lucky You Are" on BBC Radio 1 for the first time on Wednesday 7 September 2011, saying: "That piece of music right there is one of the most special pieces of music I've heard in a very very long time". The play received a rapturous reaction from listeners.
Henson formed his own Oak Ten Records and officially re-released his debut album Dear in 2012. It went on to sell over 7,000 copies and gained a cult following. The album was well critically acclaimed: the BBC said "Keaton Henson isn't a show-off, but with talent like this, he has every right to be", and on Metacritic the album received a score of 70 out of 100. The album, which never charted, spawned three singles – "Charon", "Small Hands" and "You Don't Know How Lucky You Are" – all of which were accompanied by music videos. The video for "Charon" was shortlisted for a UK MVA award in Best Budget Indie/Rock Category. "Small Hands" won Best Music Video at Rushes Soho Shorts 2012.
Henson released The Lucky EP in July 2012.
Henson's music ("Charon", "Corpse Roads", "To Your Health", "10AM Gare du Nord", "You") has been featured in the BBC Three zombie drama In the Flesh.
In November 2012, Henson designed a t-shirt for the Yellow Bird Project to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
"Keaton Henson spends his time alone, writing songs and sometimes drawing, he doesn't like to talk about himself."
Visit www.keatonhenson.com
As a musician Henson usually sings and plays guitar. Henson suffers from serious stage fright and, as a result, he rarely plays concerts. His art show "Hithermost" took place at the Pertwee, Anderson & Gold gallery in London in January 2013 and "sold quickly". He has also released a wordless graphic novel called "Gloaming", published by Pocko, which is "essentially a field guide to a spirit world beyond our reality".
Keaton Henson was born in 1988 in London, England. He is the son of actor Nicky Henson and ballet dancer Marguerite Porter.
Originally Henson was an illustrator. He designed the artwork for various albums including Dananananaykroyd's Hey Everyone! and Enter Shikari's Take to the Skies. Henson recorded songs in his apartment in London, initially purely for his own consumption. He gave a recording of one of the songs as a gift for his best friend, and was encouraged to put music online. In November 2010 his debut album Dear was released on Motive Sounds Recordings, in a limited edition which he made by hand himself. In 2011 he released a single, "Metaphors", on Porchlight Records. He also recorded "Don't Be Afraid" for the Tormented soundtrack.
Henson's breakthrough came when Zane Lowe played "You Don't Know How Lucky You Are" on BBC Radio 1 for the first time on Wednesday 7 September 2011, saying: "That piece of music right there is one of the most special pieces of music I've heard in a very very long time". The play received a rapturous reaction from listeners.
Henson formed his own Oak Ten Records and officially re-released his debut album Dear in 2012. It went on to sell over 7,000 copies and gained a cult following. The album was well critically acclaimed: the BBC said "Keaton Henson isn't a show-off, but with talent like this, he has every right to be", and on Metacritic the album received a score of 70 out of 100. The album, which never charted, spawned three singles – "Charon", "Small Hands" and "You Don't Know How Lucky You Are" – all of which were accompanied by music videos. The video for "Charon" was shortlisted for a UK MVA award in Best Budget Indie/Rock Category. "Small Hands" won Best Music Video at Rushes Soho Shorts 2012.
Henson released The Lucky EP in July 2012.
Henson's music ("Charon", "Corpse Roads", "To Your Health", "10AM Gare du Nord", "You") has been featured in the BBC Three zombie drama In the Flesh.
In November 2012, Henson designed a t-shirt for the Yellow Bird Project to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
"Keaton Henson spends his time alone, writing songs and sometimes drawing, he doesn't like to talk about himself."
Visit www.keatonhenson.com
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@kierenkane7516
Silence.
I'm sat, on a simple wooden chair in a small cabin, the darkened panels creating a box around me. I see faded photographs of two children, a man, and a woman in a lush Victorian garden on the mantelpiece. A woman so beautiful, with the most delicate smile, and forgiving eyes. The way the sunlight danced and played on her hair... I can almost hear the footsteps of the children running and laughing, echoed and reverberated, as the man and woman walk hand in hand along the porcelain floor. He is smiling in the picture, but his eyes look lost, and desolate. Below the yellowed picture frame are the soft glow of embers that burn brighter.
A pendulum clock swings in silence on the center of the mantelpiece. And then the pendulum begins to slow. The embers burst into dancing flames.
I would have once called this a home, but now, it is just a room which haunts me, as familiar as it is ghostly and foreign. The paned windows around me reveal nothing but darkness, and the chair I sit on does not give me the comfort I once felt.
The flames grow ever higher. I hear the darkened wood around me groan, as if aware of my pain. The mantelpiece sets ablaze, as the photoframe falls, cracked onto the timber floorboards. The fire grows, scorches and sears, charring the framework of the house around me. The monotonous momentum of the pendulum grows slower, as each piece of wood cascades down around me, broken and burning. I squeeze my eyes shut, scared and confused.
Then, silence. I open my eyes and find myself floating in Cimmerian shade, total darkness, as the room falls around me. The snapped and broken chair orbits around my body. The fire starts to fade, as I look up, and see a divine, pure and radiant light far above me. I feel myself start to push up towards it, heavy and painful- as if I was swimming in ice cold water pushing down on me. I see her faded photographs float by me as I push myself, towards where the burning passion of the light leads me. The pendulum swings icily, as I swim in eternal space. Up. My arm stretches out past the point of no return. Grasping, clawing my way for a future that seems impossible. A dream unfulfilled. Uprooted and lost, hoping for my while away dream to come true. My chest pushing down as my mind starts to soar upwards further, the light painfully close. Moving, so, slowly. The panels of cracked wood and broken home I leave behind making no noise at all now. Getting closer. The loss I feel as I move on to something better, somewhere I belong to be.
I see a void, a hole in which I move towards, I feel no more heaviness, as it starts to clear like a veil I cannot control in my own conscienceness. I pass through, and I soar through golden, purifing light into light pink, deep red, and faded green skies. I see a sunset over distant emerald mountains, the purples of ages twinkle upon mist above the ocean, and I hear the crystal clear sound of waves crashing in the sweeped away horizon. Hovering weightlessly above the thick clouds... Cities of glass, rising 10,000 feet tall, bending and shimmering in the light of a thousand exploding golden suns. A grandeur sea of fields stretching across the landscape and shifting in the hazy wind; the smells of the grass and exotic fruit filling the air with tantalising delicacy... Eloquent sounds of violins singing, the atmosphere of absolute euphoria.
Then, I remember something, a moment from years ago, the sunlight dancing, and playing...
I feel myself then again falling, away from my beauty, away from the sounds of the most delicate orchestra in the back of my mind. Pushed with a breathe, I feel weight again, falling back through the void, ruthlessly pulled down into asunder.
As I stare upwards, the light fades, the void closes as I'm left falling in the cold, once again. All my sensations are lost, as the darkling light dissappears, and I am left numbly blinded in the suffocating cloak of familiarity. Back to fix the broken.
Silence.
I open my eyes, and I'm sat on a simple wooden chair in a small cabin.
The embers burn once again.
@avasingss
I would just like to thank Keaton Henson and Ren Ford. I have never experienced any music that has truly torn at my heart-strings the way that Romantic Works has. I am so thankful to have been graced with this enchanting, beautiful music.
@user-gw5uz4ed4s
Maybe Ludovico Einaudi is also something for you
@dyenec
Words can't describe the beauty of this song.
@starscape96
So true
@emmahammond7740
The attachment that I have to this track is so strong... it so much more than a just song to me, it is emotion, pain, love, beauty... it is art. Absolutely breathtaking.
@VamsiKrishna-vc6lf
This song is just so embedded in emotions...
@TheAlDante
Stunning record. One of the most inspiring things I have heard in a long time. Soulful, honest and beautiful. Thank you Keaton, it's a privilege to be able to listen to your music.
@chloemurdoch9074
This song is always on my mind, it absolutely transports me to another world.
My favourite time to listen to this is during an intense/emotional moment in a fantasy novel.
@untitled2638
Goosebumps all over, incredible, simply incredible
@karolinaruchlewicz9270
It's so pure...Keaton, thank you!