- Mark Jenkins (musician)
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Mark Jenkins (b. 1960 in Wales) is a British musician and music writer most widely known for his live concert performances, CD releases, magazine features and books. His reviews, interviews and features have appeared in various UK and international magazines including Melody Maker, New Musical Express, Music Week, International Musician, Keyboard Player (UK), Keyboard (US), Virtual Instruments (US), Mac Format, Mac User and many others, and his book Analog Synthesizers has been acclaimed in the UK and US as among the most comprehensive ever published on the subject.
International reviews included Tape Op magazine in the US stating 'this is the best book to date I've seen on analog synthesis.' (Tape Op magazine, US, issue #62)
Mark Jenkins was influenced by the early music of Mike Oldfield and Tangerine Dream, and created his first recordings in high school using the tape delay methods also used by Terry Riley and Robert Fripp. Studying a BA Arts course at university, he worked in the university television and electronic music studios to create his first live performances. On graduating with a BA Honours degree he became Music Editor of the pioneering music magazine Electronics & Music Maker. Working on other publications where he interviewed artists including Philip Glass, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran, he gave further performances at London Olympia, the London Planetarium and the Royal Festival Hall among other venues.
With increasing distribution of this music in the US, he was described as 'the master synthesizer musician in the UK' (Eurock Magazine, US)
Forming his own label AMP Music in the 1980s, Mark Jenkins went on to promote, perform or record with members of Tangerine Dream, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Van der Graaf Generator, Heldon, Can, Gong and White Noise. His collaboration with founder member David Vorhaus of White Noise continues to the present day, and the duo has performed at venues including the Bochum Planetarium, Germany, and the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, with performances at the Greenwich Planetarium, London, due for 2009.
Mark Jenkins lives in London.
Contents
CD Releases
- Analog Archives (1986)
- Space Dreams (1990)
- Thunder At Midnight (1992)
- Mexico Rising (1994)
- Space Dreams 2 (1996)
- Moog Meditations (1998)
- Sequencer Loops (2003)
- Sequencer Loops 2 (2004)
- If The World Were Turned On Its Head, We Would Walk Among The Stars (2005)
- Live with Damo Suzuki at the Royal Festival Hall (2005)
- Live In The US (Double CD with guests including Bill Fox, Xeroid Entity) (2006)
- This Island Earth (2007)
- Mark Jenkins presents Ghosts of Mars; Something Dancing In The Darkness (2008)
- Mark Jenkins presents The Ceremony of Innocence; with Arthur Brown, White Noise and Alquimia (2009, forthcoming)
Selected Concerts
- London Olympia, 1986
- Brazilia Teatro Nacional, 1988
- London Planetarium, 1989
- London Astoria, 1991/1992
- London Royal Festival Hall, 2005
- Philadelphia Franklin Institute Planetarium, 2005
- Pittsburgh Carnegie Center Planetarium, 2005
- Bochum Planetarium, Germany, 2008
- Greenwich Planetarium, London, 2009 (forthcoming)
On November 28, 2009 Mark Jenkins will become the first British musician to perform at the Peter Harrison Planetarium at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich.[1]
Bibliography
- Analog Synthesizers, published by Focal Press (2007) [2]
A Kindle electronic book version has now also become available.
References
External links
Categories:- 1960 births
- Living people
- British musicians
- Culture jamming
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