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News
29.07.2010
Tomorrow SONEMARK will play at the Summer Inspiration OpenAir 2010 at Lake Grosstolpen near Leipzig.
SONEMARK was invited to play the 10th Anniversary of the festival series and will be the only live act to enter the main stage this evening.
02.12.2009
Today Torsten TMA Abel and Frank Makowski will make their very first public appearance with their new collaborational project SONEMARK.
The project will be presented with a special live performance broadcasted by ELDORADIO,
a student radio station located at Dortmund University / Germany. The show will be broadcasted locally via air
and worldwide via online stream from the ELDORADIO website. The performance will be acompanied by interviews
with Torsten & Frank and premiers of studio outtakes from their ongoing work.
13.11.2009
Concert with the Ambient Circle at the Gasometer Oberhausen. The concert is realised in cooperation with the
West Deutscher Rundfunk WDR for their series „WDR 5 liest vor“ and encompanies a reading of Isaac Asimovs „The Caves of Steel“.
21.03.2009
The Ambient Circle has won the Schallwende Award 2008 in the category
"Best Newcomer"!
Accompanying the award itself the german CD-manufacturer Interdisc is
sponsoring a full-scale CD release, so you can await a first official
album by the Ambient Circle in the future. Congratulation to the
complete AC staff and to Thomas Herrmann, the founder of the AC.
01.03.2009
The reissue of the third TRANQUILLITY "Core" is now
available on
.
"Core" was first released back in 2001 on the german Invisible
Shadows label.
After focusing on collaborational projects for half a decade it just
felt right to Frank to start a new solo production to locate "his"
personal sound again. "Core" was the result, defining the borderline
between the sequencer driven Berlin School roots of TRANQUILLITY and the
soundscape approach of what later formed the spine of "The Speed Of Dark",
his dark ambient project.
This expanded version of the original 5 track CD release includes the
elusive edgerunner "enCORE". This track perfectly reflects both major
parts of Franks electronic music to date, emerging ambiences as well, as
classical mantric sequencer patterns. The basic recordings were done
around 2000/01 and consist of a sketch of JamMan loop exercises and a
slower, deeper version of the original sequences of "State Of Hysteria"
from the "Core" CD. Both former tracks were marriaged and heavily
postproduced in February 2009, making "enCORE" a perfect last statement
for the online rerelease of the TRANQUILLITY back catalogue.
26.02.2009
Frank Makowski will participate on the coming Ambient Circle session
#14.
The event will take place at the
UnperfektHaus in Essen / Germany on March 14th, 2009.
Estimated time of beginning is 7:30 p.m.
25.02.2009
Beside the listener section the Ambient Circle is also officially
nominated for the
Schallwelle
award for best newcomer, jury choice.
22.02.2009
TRANQUILLITY is featured again, this time on the
KlangArten-Podcast #9.
14.02.2009
TRANQUILLITY is featured on Vol.24 of the
Syndae-Podcast.
Produced in Germany but moderated in English language this is highly
recommended to foreign EM friends.
Stefan, thanks a lot for the support and I hope you´ll enjoy hosting the
cast for a long lasting time.
09.02.2009
"The Speed of Dark" is featured on Vol.7 of the german
KlangARTen-Podcast.
Thanks a lot for the support and good luck with your work, Brammi!
08.02.2009
The reissue of the second TRANQUILLITY "Deus Ex Machina" is now
available on
.
"Deus Ex Machina" was first released back in 1996 on Lambert
Ringlages famous Spheric Music label.
After finishing "The Spectre Within" two years earlier, Frank has got
involved in several live-projects, such as Bernhard Krugs
Universalsymphonie "Hoeren & Sehen" and "Mediamorphose" an ambitious
live-performance, melting electronic music and big-scale video
projections conceived by two local video artists Michael Rentmeister and
Peter Lorant. The latter act was performed live 1995 with Holle Mangler
supporting on keys. The music (tracks# 3-6), especially composed for the
event, later formed the nucleus of this second TRANQUILLITY album.
This expanded version contains "Locomotion", which was
the opening track of the "Mediamorphose" concept and wasn´t part of the
original CD release, remaining elsewhere unavailable. "Deus Ex Machina"
formally was released on the "Syntonic Waves Vol.6" compilation and
wasn´t part of the CD release either. Due to its name and being from
the same period as the rest of the album it truely completes the
re-issue here.
25.01.2009
Frank Makowski is nominated two times for the german electronic music
award "Schallwelle". Well, sort of, so he is nominated both in person
and as part of the Ambient Circle in the category Best Artist / Best Act
listeners choice.
The award is open for public voting, so if you would like to support
feel free to visit
www.schallwelle-preis.de
17.01.2009
Official launch of frankmakowski.com
28.12.2008
The year ends with a big surprise for some of you:
first of all will this be the very last update of the site... as you
know it.
In January 2009 the complete content will be thrown overboard, making
space for a complete new startup and redesign. The new content will even
more focus on my very own music and will feature extensive and exclusive
music downloads, to name just one change.
Plus, the current year will end with the re-release of the TRANQUILLITY
debut "The Spectre Within" on
.
"The Spectre Within" was first released back in 1994 on the german ARDEMA label. After a handful of early music cassette releases
this album marks the official debut of TRANQUILLITY. As a bonus this re-release features
four additional tracks I´ve grabbed from my archive. Those were never
released before (with the exception of track 13) and span the same peroid (1991-1994) of the original tracks recorded for "Spectre":
"Early Lightnings" being the most unusual track from this collection.
Recorded back in 1991 it is by far the oldest piece here. It´s the only prereleased
one, so it was part of the MC only album „The Luenen Rehearsals“ which encompanied the first ever TRANQUILLITY live performance back in 1993.
And it is the only track that I laid hand on in these days, removing
some annoying clicks and adding reverb. Thou it remains unedited.
"Mare Tranquilitatis" was recorded under the impression of a multimedia
installation called "SpacePeople", I had realizied together with two
local video artist in August 1994 in Marl.
"Copperblue", directly linked to Tangerine Dreams "Heartbreakers"
soundtrack, and "Akihabara" are two recordings from the same year, that
have disappeared into the archives darkness.
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