| Hendra | |
| Type: | Studio Album |
| Artist: | Ben Watt |
| Cover: | Hendra (Ben Watt album).jpg |
| Released: | 14 April 2014 |
| Recorded: | Berlin and London 2013 |
| Genre: | Acoustic, downtempo |
| Label: | Unmade Road, under exclusive license to Caroline International |
| Producer: | Ewan Pearson |
| Prev Title: | North Marine Drive |
| Prev Year: | 1983 |
| Next Title: | Fever Dream |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
Hendra is the second studio album released by the English singer, author and multi-instrumentalist Ben Watt on 15 April 2014 through Unmade Road, under exclusive license to Caroline International. The record is a collaboration with Bernard Butler and features a guest-appearance by David Gilmour on slide guitar and backing vocals on "The Levels".[1]
This is Watt's first solo album for three-decades since his 1983's debut, North Marine Drive.
During an interview in 2014, Watt stated the following regarding the album's title:
"My sister died just shortly after finishing my last book and it was a big shock. She’d led a very simple life as a shopkeeper at a simple village store and lived quite a claustrophobic life. Whenever she’d try to get away she went to this little house on the edge of Cornwall called Hendra. When she died I did some research on the name and found that it’s an old Cornish word for home. It had this odd lyrical quality to it. When I found the actual meaning it seemed like the perfect title for the record."[2]