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Genre: Indie / Pop / Rock
Location Baden-Württemberg, Ge
Profile Views: 633669
Last Login: 5/25/2011
Member Since 8/28/2006
Website www.hinkel-music.de
Record Label Lemonade Music(Germany)/Echophonic Records(Italy)
Type of Label Indie
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Mar 19, 2009 3:52 AM A first review of "Heaven And Hell"

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The Making of "Heaven and Hell"

01:09 | 1322 plays | Jun 21 2007

Volker Hinkel: guitars/vocals/keys
Dirk Blümlein: bass
Claus Müller: drums

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Tour booking e-mail: booking@anakina.net

Biography

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HINKEL is the solo project of Volker Hinkel, co-author/guitarist/producer of Fools Garden.
Founded for the first time in 1993 for the production of the album "In The Wake Of Thunder" (1994), this project had a brand new start in 2002 when Dirk Blümlein (bass) and Claus Müller (drums) joined the line-up.
The 3-piece band worked on a new album, "Not A Life-Saving Device", which was released in August 2005.
In 2006 Hinkel comes to MySpace and starts a proficuous web marketing campaign.
Hinkel is currently working on a new upcoming EP, including four brand new songs and a cover of "Heaven And Hell" by John Entwistle.
In the meanwhile the song "House Of Love", taken from "Not A Life-Saving Device", has been chosen to be included in the soundtrack of the upcoming US movie "The Other Side Of The Tracks", directed by A.D. Calvo and with the TV series 'Roswell' star Brendan Fehr in the leading role.
While "Shine" and "Run" from the same album are included in the digital split "The Big Eye", realized together with The Mirrors, with cover art by Andy from Bluvertigo, which has been released in Italy under the indie label Echophonic in March 2008.

Volker Hinkel was born on June 21st 1965 in Calw.

He learned to play the piano and the guitar and began his musical career in 1979 with his first band.

After several projects he formed the band "Fools Garden" together with Peter Freudenthaler in 1990 ("Lemon Tree").

During 1993 he realized his solo project "Hinkel".

In addition to his job as musician, he works as producer as well and composes music for movies and commercials.

Find out more about Volker's latest projects on his BLOG!

Other members of HINKEL:

Claus Müller was born on May 3rd 1966 in Pforzheim.

He won a local band contest with his band in 1983. Through that fact he did his first recordings in a professional studio.

From 1989-1991 he studied drums in Frankfurt.
He toured for 3 years with the Beatles tribute band "Hard Day's Night" all over Germany and England.
In 1993 he released his first solo CD "Geht' s Noch Schlimmer" with the band "Schlechte Verlierer".

Since 1993 Claus works as a drum teacher.
Through the 90's he played musicals and was the drummer of different cover bands.
In 2000 he founded his own drum school and joined the band Fools Garden in 2003.

Find out more about Claus on his MySpace page!

Dirk Blümlein was born on July 28th 1968 in Vaihingen/ Enz.
During school he learned to play the flute and the trumpet before finally picking up the bass in 1982.

He studied the bass at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, toured Europe with the ska band "No Sports" and recorded with various artists from jazz to heavy rock.

Dirk has released 2 solo albums and released the 2nd CD of his own band, the "Dirk Blümlein Terzett", on May 11th 2007 (titled "Freizeitvergnügen").

Find out more about Dirk on his MySpace page!

Not A Life-Saving Device

01/The Way You Look At Me (5.46)
02/Rumors (4.48)
03/House Of Love (5.15)
04/Run (4.18)
05/When I Die (5.22)
06/Lights (5.05)
07/Reprise (1.49)
08/All It Takes (5.11)
09/The Beauty Of It (4.40)
10/Save Your Life (2.20)
11/Shine (3.54)
12/You Can't Fall Down (7.35)
13/Run To Seed (Bonus) (3.36)

Total time: 59:37

Not just a simple album but an one hour lasting emotional journey, which involves and shows you the various facets of a less than ordinary artist and his music. From pop to rock, through modern disco music ("Run" and "The Beauty Of It"), sweet ballads ("You Can't Fall Down"), awesome instrumental tracks ("Reprise" and "Save Your Life") and songs with a hit potential ("Shine"). All accompanied by captivating lyrics, which describe strong feelings and characters, in an atmosphere between dream and hard reality.

This album was recorded at Hinkelstone-Studio near the wonderful Black Forest in Germany. It rather took a long time from the first session to the final release!

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You can get the album as CD on:

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If you are outside Germany:
EUR 18 - Europe
EUR 20 - Outside Europe
Send payment via Paypal or contact: boss[at]hinkelstone.de

*Orders within Germany of over EUR 50 are dispatched free of charge. For orders under EUR 50, a contribution of EUR 2 towards postage & packing is charged.

You can get the album as mp3 on:

Or on our own song shop at only EUR 8.90!

In The Wake Of Thunder

No Quarter
Rule Of Thumb
Closer
Run To Seed
The Battlefields Awake
Maybe
No Words In Season
The Wake Of Thunder
Save
Reprise

Music and lyrics by Volker Hinkel.
Recorded between May and November 1993 at Hinkelstone Studio and New Line Studio. Remixed at New Line Studio (Stuttgart). Published in 1994.
Guitars, keyboards, programming and vocals: Volker Hinkel.
Drums and percussions: Ralf Wochele.
Bass on Closer, Run To Seed and Maybe: Thomas Mangold.

Do you want to own this CD? Send an e-mail to shop@foolsgarden.de

If you want the album as mp3, you can get it from our song shop at only EUR 2.89: CLICK HERE!

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Band Members

Volker Hinkel: guitars/vocals/keys
Dirk Blümlein: bass
Claus Müller: drums

For worldwide booking enquiries or other requests, just send a private message!
Tour booking e-mail: booking@anakina.net

New Releases

Buy online the new EP
HEAVEN AND HELL

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Order the limited promo edition CD now!
THE BIG EYE
by The Mirrors/Hinkel
5 euro + postage: CLICK HERE TO ORDER!
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Cover art by Andy from Bluvertigo

Get it on iTunes: click here!

When I Die - preview clip

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Shine - preview clip

www.hinkelstone.de - Hinkelstone Productions
www.hinkel.tk - Hinkel.tk - official Italian website

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