Davy Spillane, Geddy Lee, Mark Knopfler, Mike Oldfield, Chris Squire, David Gilmour, Eddie Jobson, Vangelis,
Pierre Moerlen, Pink Floyd, Phil Lynott, Mark King,
Tony Levin, Ian Anderson, Trilok Gurtu, Donal Lunny,
Jon Anderson, Afro Celt Sound System, Andreas Vollenweider, Patrick O’Hearn, Lindsey Buckingham
Frank Bossert is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and ever-restless creative spirit from the far north of Germany. Having grown up in Hamburg, he was musically educated in various rock bands gigging clubs like the legendary 'Logo' or 'Knust' in the late 80s.
In the middle of the 90s he started his own project, named „EUREKA”. Under this name Frank has been producing four CDs since 1997. Starting with his self distributed „EUREKA“ entitled debut record, Frank created a sound that mixed Celtic folk with prog rock and symphonic elements.
The second release „The Full Circle“ from 2002 was the first album that established the EUREKA sound in full flavour. The album features five songs and five instrumental tracks that form a unique blend of Celtic, world and ambient sounds. It turned out to be the signature album for EUREKA and brought Frank’s music to worldwide attention.
In 2005 „The Compass Rose” with the collaboration of nearly a dozen musicians was released. Flamenco guitars meet Celtic flutes, medieval drums arrange grooving races and keyboards melt with oriental percussion. „The Compass Rose“ is EUREKA’s most diverse recording and presents soundscapes rarely ever heard before. It gained some well attention in the prog rock press and was presented live at a release concert in front of the castle of Frank’s hometown Husum.
In 2008 after what could be called the 'band period' of EUREKA between 2003-2005 Frank decided to start the production of an album he’d planned since the very first days of 2000. It can be seen as the most exciting project his career has seen so far – „Shackleton's Voyage" is a concept album dealing with Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic voyage on the ship 'Endurance'.
„Shackleton‘s Voyage“ features prominent guest musicians Billy Sherwood (ex-Yes, World Trade, CIRCA:), Troy Donockley (Iona, Nightwish), Yogi Lang (RPWL) and a great artwork/booklet with impressive pictures taken by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley. The album was released in June 2009 distributed by InsideOut/SPV and received glowing reviews all over the world. It‘s been valued as a timeless work of art that pays tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Right now Frank is setting up a new band project named "TAURUS" which is related to his basic prog rock roots. For more information visit the new MySpace-site:
TAURUS
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Thanks for the comment. The main reason for me adding myself to your friends list is that I'm a prog reviewer, collaborator at Progarchives and at least for this year a jury member of Progawards - so I connect to prog folks *s* I sampled the track up there - which for some reason reminded me of The Firm in it's current version - perhaps the guitar sound? Sounded very likeable in my ears on first impression, really liked the guitar sound :-)
Hallo Frank, klar gefiel mir eure letzte CD wie hier nachzulesen ist: http://nocturnalhall.de/frameindex.htm;-) werde mir den neuen Song sehr gern anhören!
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