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Born in Milan in 1968, Frank started to play the
guitar and the piano at 8, and started to study
immediately classical music.
At 12 years old he
published the first album, 45 LP for a melodic
rock band called
MACID.
At 17 years Frank create
the
FIREHOUSE,
band that was born with some friends at school -
it will arrive to the publication of two album
and one of them
“LABYRINTH”
was distributed in
all Europe.
Appreciated guitarist from the national critic,
in the ‘80 and in the first years of the 90, he
collaborates with several artists of the Italian
scene and begins its activity of session-man in
various studies of recording, and he will
collaborate with Franco Battiato and others
important productions of the Italian scene.
In 1992, he finished the
studies of Sacred Music, opens a study of
recording where he begins to realize soundtracks
and music for television, collaborating with the
greatest Italians television groups and radio.
In 1994
he started a collaboration with Mediaset group
for which he realized many TV spot and some
soundtracks. Tired to produce music for other
artists and the activity of session-man, in 96
Frank decides to dedicate himself to a new
project and in the' 97, from the ashes of
FIREHOUSE, the
ARACHNES
were born.
In 1998 ARACHNES published
"THE
GODDESS TEMPLE"
for Lucretia Records, the
band attracted the attention of international
critic and ARACHNES enter in the international
metal scene, appearing in compilation with
STRATOVARIOUS
and
ANGRA.
In 2000
the first collaboration with the label
Underground Symphony and ARACHNES publish
"METAMORPHOSIS"
that signs the
definitive change of style that becames more
Prog-Power-Symphonic.
In the 2001/2003 ARACHNES sign with Scarlet
Records and in the next three years they start
to work very hard and they published:
-
2001
"PARALLEL
WORLDS"
, published and
distributed in all Europe and South America.
-
2002
"APOCALYPSE"
, that it will open
the Japanese market.
-
2003
"PRIMARY
FEAR"
, that it confirms
the presence of the band in the European and
Japanese market.
In
the main time Frank produce music for
television; in 2005 ARACHNES finishes to record
“IN
PRAISE OF SCIENCE”
and not for their
choice the album was published in 2006.
In
2006, after months of several
negotiations with italian and foreign labels,
Frank decides to repeat the collaboration with
Underground Symphony, already experimented in
2000, this time for the production of his solo
album “KALEIDOSCOPE” ; on
the album that Frank said:
‘It's the expression of the pure guitar
entertainment, without a commercial business and
chosen dictated from the tendencies of market, a
joyful following of notes only for the pure
taste of music”.
This “properly artistic” position has carried to
a new contact with the label and to a
distribution choices addressed to new shapes of
commercialization like Internet. also from the
big important guitarist site GUITAR9.
In
2007 Frank started with the new
GOTHIC/MEDIOEVAL project called
DARKLIGHT
, with female voice, and
published the first album of the new band
“LIGHT
FROM THE DARK”
for the top label
Fuel records and distributed in all the
world for Self Distribution and
in digital distribution by i-Tunes.
In 2008 Frank starts a new
collaboration with the important magazine
"Computers
& Music Studio Project":
he becomes the reference for the magazine for
which he reviews digital guitar recordings,
digital guitar hardwares, performing testing and
he records for the magazine audio samples.
Also in 2008 the new project
STRINGS 24
with other guitar friends
Sebo Xotta (Four Tyles / Utez)
and Gianluca Ferro (Time
Machine / Heart of sun) which begins with the
recording of a future project as well as being
present in important live performance.
In 2008 and 2009 Frank with Strings 24 played
with big international Guitar hero like Andy
Timmons, Paul Gilbert, Patrick Rondat and
many other.
In 2009 Frank start his activity for music
television fiction and for more Spot and song
for Mediaset R.t.i group, playing guitar on new
production of Cristina D' Avena, Gormiti
Cartoon, Strisicia la notizia and many other Tv
Program.
Meanwhile Frank is recording the new ARACHNES
album and start recording for a new solo
production for 2010.
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