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Frank Fenstermacher, false colors

Frank Fenstermacher (born October 9, 1955 ) is a German musician and artist . He also published under the pseudonym A Certain Frank .

biography

He is co-founder of the record label and music publisher Ata Tak (more than 250 releases since 1979), member of the music performance groups Der Plan (until 1992), the rock band Fehlfarben and the lounge duo A Certain Frank . He has produced more than 250 records and CDs and has been involved in over 150 publications as a composer, musician, lyricist, producer and cover artist. His main instruments are the saxophone , percussion , kalimba , hang and pianet .

Publications (excerpt)

As A Certain Frank :

• no end of no (Germany + Japan, CD, 1996)
• Nobody? No! (FRG, CD, 1998)
• remixed by ... (BRD, 12 ″, 1999)
• Nothing (CD / 12 ″, 2001)
• Wildlife Live (CD, 2006)
• Now Here (CD, 2008)

With off colors :

• Monarchy and everyday life (FRG, CD, 1980)
• Tiananmen Record (LP, 1991)
• Knee-deep in the dispo (Germany, CD, 2002)
• Club of beautiful mothers (FRG, single CD, 2002)
• Alcohols (single CD, 2003)
• 26½ (CD, 2006)
• Handbook for the World (CD, 2007)
• Here and now (Live-CD, 2009)
• Luck Machines (CD, 2010)

With the plan :

• Geri Reig (FRG, 1980, reissue 1999)
• Normalette Surprise (FRG + USA, LP, 1981)
• The last revenge (FRG, LP, 1983, reissue 2000)
• Japlan (Japan, LP, 1985)
• Fat Years (FRG, LP, 1986)
• It's a strange and strange world (BRD, LP, 1987)
• Perlen (Germany + Japan, CD, 1988)
• The Whip of Life (FRG + Japan, LP / CD 1989)
• Live At The Tiki Ballroom ... (Germany + Japan, 1993)

Cover artwork (excerpt)

• DAF : A product of German-American friendship (FRG, LP, 1979)
• Pyrolator : Inland (LP, 1979)
• The Plan: The Meat (EP, 1980)
• DAF: The Small and the Bad ( Mute Records , LP, 1982)
• Andreas Dorau: Little House Maid (7 ″, 1982)
• Surplus Stock (LP, 1984)
• Andreas Dorau : Trouble with Immortality (LP, 1987)
• City Space 1 (CD, 1989)
• City Space 2 (CD, 1990)
• Andreas Dorau: Harvest (CD, 1994)
• Fehlfarben: live (CD, 1994)
• Wrong colors: knee-deep in the dispo (CD, 2002)
• Wrong colors: Club of beautiful mothers (Maxi, 2002)
• A Certain Frank: No End of No (BRD + Japan, CD, 1996)
• A Certain Frank: Nobody? No! (FRG, CD, 1998)
• A Certain Frank: Nothing (CD / 12 ″, 2001)
• A Certain Frank: Wildlife Live (CD, 2006)
• A Certain Frank: Now Here (CD, 2008)

Texts for Der Plan, A Certain Frank, Pyrolator, Andreas Dorau, Fehlfarben.

literature

• Sven-André Dreyer , Michael Wenzel, Thomas Stelzmann: No breathing space - music from Düsseldorf. Droste, Düsseldorf 2018, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-7700-2067-6

Web links

• Ata Tak: Label from Pyrolator, Der Plan uA (bilingual)
• Fehlfarben: Homepage of the group