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IN 2010 I BECAME THE FIRST MUSICIAN IN THE WORLD TO RELEASE A CD "The iPad Album" CREATED ENTIRELY ON THE APPLE iPAD, WITH LIVE CONCERT PERFORMANCES IN HOLLAND.
IN 2011 I AM PERFORMING FURTHER CONCERTS IN THE USA AS WELL AS IN THE UK. THIS MYSPACE PAGE IS NO LONGER BEING REGULARLY UPDATED. I HAVE A FULL WEBSITE WWW.MARKJENKINS.CO AND MY CD RELEASES ARE AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE THROUGH AMAZON. I HAVE USA AND OTHER CONCERTS THIS YEAR (2011), PLEASE VISIT MY WEBSITE FOR DETAILS. THANKS - MARK JENKINS
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2009 CONCERTS - Tickets On The Door!
London, new Greenwich Planetarium, "Supernova" Best of. CD/DVD launch, with WHITE NOISE, Saturday November 28th 2009, tickets on the door 6pm, www.nmm.ac.uk
2008 CONCERTS COMPLETED
MARK JENKINS "The Ceremony of Innocence" at E-Live, Eindhoven Holland, with
WHITE NOISE and ARTHUR BROWN and ALQUIMIA
and performances with WHITE NOISE in Holland, Germany, Paris, Herstmonceux Castle, and the All Tomorrow's Parties festival.
LONDON 2007/2008 CONCERTS COMPLETED
"MUSIC FOR THE 3rd MILLENNIUM" concert series
Saturday August 25th "Ghosts of Mars"
Saturday September 22nd "Supernova"
Saturday October 27th "Cellistica"
Saturday November 24th "White Noise"
Visit the "Music for the 3rd Millennium" profile in Top Friends!!!
Modulus
Avant-garde, dark ambient experimental electro-acoustic and minimalist music with guest musicians, including my performance of Terry Riley's "A Rainbow In Curved Air" - like Warp Records, John Cage
Perfect Earth
Progressive rock in the style of Pink Floyd and ELP.
Band being formed, recording and gigging soon.
ZyXyZ
Jazz and world music laptop fusion trio like Herbie Hancock.
Gigging soon.
Ghosts Of Mars
Electronica, chillout, techno-dance laptop-based music.
CD out now! Gigging worldwide.
Cellistica
Concerts started 2007 featuring ARTHUR BROWN - symphonic electronic music with solo cellist, like Klaus Schulze. CD soon.
Neon Lab
Techno pop duo with vocals, like Kraftwerk.
Recordings soon.
White Noise
The legendary UK electronic music group formed by David Vorhaus
in which I'm currently performing around the UK and Europe.
RECENT CD's ON RELEASE NOW - "Mark Jenkins Live In The USA" (double ambient and synth music CD currently including free the krautrock style "Mark Jenkins Live at the Royal Festival Hall with Damo Suzuki", price for all 3 is the same as for 2 CD's), and "This Island Earth", new studio and laptop album of 70's-style synth music like Cluster and Tangerine Dream. Send a MySpace message for ordering details or get them from Groove, Neu Harmony, C&DS, Cue, Artists Shop, Wayside Music, Eurock and other dealers. "GHOSTS OF MARS" ambient dance CD also out now on AMP Music (UK) and Ricochet Dream (USA) - see the separate MySpace page!!!
I got into music after seeing Mike Oldfield perform "Tubular Bells" on TV in 1974. I thought this was something wonderful - completely different from anything in the pop charts, no singing, repetitive without being monotonous, and incredibly emotional and expressive. I started to play guitar but within a few months heard something even more incredible - Tangerine Dream in session on the John Peel radio show. At the time I loved the Space Invaders arcade games and this seemed like their perfect soundtrack, full of strange sounds and textures. Of course synthesizers like the big Moog systems were extremely expensive, but I got hold of a couple of electric keyboards and tape recorders, then had kit synths and sequencers built for me.
At University I used their ARP Odyssey and other synths and created concert backing videos in the college TV studio. My first job was on an electronic music magazine and I reviewed all the new synths starting with the very first MIDI models as well as meeting some of the big names of the electronic music scene in the 1980's - Jean-Michel Jarre, Karlheinz Stockhausen, White Noise, Tangerine Dream and many others. I formed a label to help release my own music in 1985 and later released compilations including tracks personally offered by Isao Tomita, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk and many others.
As well as playing many solo synthesizer concerts at venues including the London Planetarium, the Carnegie Science Center Planetarium Pittsburgh, the Franklin Institute Planetarium Philadelphia, and the Teatro Nacional, Brazilia I had the privilege of performing at the Royal Festival Hall, London with Damo Suzuki, the amazing improvising singer from the German rock band Can. Right now I'm developing several new solo album and band projects in the synthesizer, progressive rock and jazz/world fusion fields, including performances in the UK and USA of my own music and a piece by Terry Riley. I am also performing as a member of the legendary electronic music band White Noise.
CD's AVAILABLE BY MAIL NOW!
ALL CD's £10 each inc. mailing worldwide
"Analog Archives"
"Space Dreams"
"Thunder At Midnight"
"Mexico Rising"
"Space Dreams 2"
"Moog Meditations"
"Sequencer Loops"
"Sequencer Loops 2"
"If The World Were Turned On Its Head, We Would Walk Among The Stars"
"Live In The USA" double CD - includes free for a limited time "Live with Damo Suzuki at the Royal Festival Hall" - price for all 3 is the same as for 2 CD's
NEW CD's OUT NOW!!!
"This Island Earth" released in the UK (by AMP Music) and USA (by Ricochet Dream)
Available from Groove, Cue, SMD, Eurock, Artists Shop, Wayside and others!!!
Includes tracks for analog synths, digital synths and new all-laptop pieces!
Mark Jenkins presents Ghosts of Mars "Something Dancing In The Darkness"
Ambient dance CD with vocals by Alquimia, see the separate MySpace page.
NEW BOOK - "Analog Synthesizers; Understanding, Performing, Buying" through Focal Press and Amazon throughout the world.
plus still available
"Music for the 3rd Millennium Vol. 1" (curator)
"Music for the 3rd Millennium Vol. 2" (curator)
"Music for the 3rd Millennium Vol. 3" (curator)
ALL CD's AVAILABLE BY MAIL NOW FROM AMAZON.COM
