Claus Hassing – Open Your Heart (2015)

Danish singer songwriter Claus Hassing out with his debut album “Open Your Heart” As the name indicates West Coast Music has its origin on the American West Coast. The music emphasizes melody, harmonies and arrangements, and the vocal and instrumental performances are always with great skill and of high quality. The music is often performed by pop/rock artists from the American West Coast, but is in no way limited to any geografical area.

With a music reference to artists like Bryan Adams, John Mayer and roots to the american west coast rock, the album delivers 16 strong songs with 3 of them in acoustics recordings. Hassing´s powerful vocal, which delivers effortlessly and contain a unique charismatic radiance – gives the album a listening a great character and you can feel that Claus Hassing has something to tell with the songs. Hassing has been producing music in the studio for others over the past decade and now feels its his turn to step into the limelight. Claus Hassing now presents 16 songs that make up the album. A majority of the album was recorded in Copenhagen with exception of stand out single “I Wanna Be”, which was produced in Los Angeles by Jared Robbins, one of the guys behind the music of John Mayer.

01 – Hotel Room
02 – Girl Next Door
03 – Wish
04 – Feels Like Rain
05 – Alone
06 – Don’t Go Away
07 – Seventeen
08 – Open Your Heart
09 – On My Mind
10 – Leave the Light on
11 – The Ones We Are
12 – To Help You
13 – I Wanne Be
14 – Excuse Me Mrs.
15 – A Different World
16 – All As if One

Claus Hassing: vocals, guitar, percussion
Flip Winther, Jacob Paulsen: keyboards
Lasse Baggenaes: lead guitar
Christian Thrane: bass
Jens Fulgsang: bass, backing vocals
Claus Winther, Niels Bo Pousen: drums

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