Tranquillity
Frank Makowski (born in 1968) got into electronic music through popular electronic music from France in the late 1970s but what really pulled the trigger for him was the developing Berlin School style of the early 1980s. Early on he began experimenting with tape recorders, fm receivers and an old EKO Tiger organ (that still is part of his studio equipment). By late 1980s he evolved his workflow by changing to digital recording equipment, supporting computer technology and state-of-the-art synthesizers and samplers. In the early 1990s the first official releases appeared, followed by theater and film music projects and numerous live performances. Apart from working as a soloist, Frank also collaborated early with other local EM artists, such like TIMEWAVE, which led to his concert debut at the first KLEM NRW Festival in 1993 (where he became sort of like a "performer in residence" as the two subsequent festivals saw him playing as well). Also, he played with Olaf HUERLAENDER Hellenkamp & Peter Gallin and released an album of rather harsh and weird industrial stuff ("Mirkom"). In 1994 all these efforts led to the release of his first solo CD "The Spectre Within". The music released under the TRANQUILLITY moniker is more focused on melodic hooklines and driving sequences. Up tempo tracks overweight soundscapes. One might say, that it shows his more traditional and mainstream, less experimental, approach.
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