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Mark Jenkins (born 1960) is a
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musician and music writer. He has written interviews and instrument reviews for UK and international magazines including ''
Melody Maker
''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born ...
'', ''
New Musical Express
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'', ''
Music Week
''Music Week'' is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine. It is published by Future.
History
Founded in 1959 as '' Record Retailer'', it relaunched on 18 March 1972 as ''Music W ...
'', ''
International Musician
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Foundation
''International Musician and Recording ...
'',
''Keyboard'' (US), and ''
Mac Format'', and has also written a book, ''Analog Synthesizers'', 2nd Edition 2019. He currently writes for the US magazine, ''Synth & Software''.
Jenkins studied a Combined Arts course at university; he worked in the university television and electronic music studios to create his first live performances. Graduating with a BA Honours degree, he became Music Editor of the magazine ''Electronics & Music Maker''. Working on other publications he interviewed artists including
Philip Glass
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,
Depeche Mode
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Depeche ...
,
Isao Tomita
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,
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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and
Duran Duran
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and reviewed instruments from
Moog Music
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,
Yamaha Yamaha may refer to:
* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, established in 1887. The company is the largest shareholder of Yamaha Motor Company (below).
** Yamaha Music Foundation, an organization estab ...
,
Roland
Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...
,
Sequential Circuits
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and others. Many of these features have been archived by the Muzines website. He gave further live performances at
London Olympia
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, the
London Planetarium
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and the
Queen Elizabeth Hall
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The ...
among other venues.
Jenkins formed the label AMP Music in 1983. He has performed with
David Vorhaus
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as
White Noise
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at venues including the
Bochum
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Planetarium, Germany, and the
All Tomorrow's Parties
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Inspiration for the song came from Reed's observation of Andy Warh ...
festival. He also performed at the Peter Harrison Planetarium at
The Royal Observatory in 2009.
In 2012
Taylor & Francis
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published a new book by Jenkins, ''
iPad Music
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'' following his release of the world's first all-iPad CD album in October 2010, and the ''Analog Synthesizers'' book was revised and updated interviewing artists such as
Suzanne Ciani
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,
Paul Haslinger
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Life and career
Early life
Haslinger was born and raised in Linz, Austria. He attended high school at Kollegium Aloisi ...
,
Hans Zimmer
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and the composers of
Stranger Things
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in 2019.
In 2020 Mark Jenkins launched the ZyXyZ Books imprint with the matching volumes "Tangerine Dream: 50 Years - The Ultimate Discography", "Klaus Schulze: 50 Years - The Ultimate Discography" and "Kraftwerk: 50 Years - The Ultimate Discography". All three books were sold around the world through Amazon.
Mark Jenkins lives in London and performs worldwide.
Albums
* ''Analog Archives'' (1986, re-mastered and expanded 2022)
* ''Space Dreams'' (1990, re-mastered and expanded 2022)
* ''Thunder at Midnight'' (1992)
* ''Mexico Rising'' (1994)
* ''Space Dreams 2'' (1996)
* ''Moog Meditations'' (1998)
* ''Sequencer Loops'' (2003)
* ''Sequencer Loops 2'' (2004)
* ''If The World Were Turned on Its Head, We Would Walk Among The Stars'' (2005)
* ''Live with Damo Suzuki at the Queen Elizabeth Hall'' (2005)
* ''Live in the USA'' (2006)
* ''This Island Earth'' (2007)
* ''Ghosts of Mars; Something Dancing in the Darkness'' (2008)
* ''The iPad Album'' (2010)
* ''EX1GENE'' (2012)
* ''CHANGE OF COSMIC ADDRESS: New Music In Tribute to Edgar Froese'' (w. Chris Jenkins) (2015)
* ''Mike Oldfield's TUBULAR BELLS for the MOOG SYNTHESIZER'' (2017)
* ''Influences'' (2018)
* ''Krautnoise; 1st'' (2019)
* ''Perpetual Music Vol. 1'' (2019)
* ''CELLISTICA: 1st FLIGHT'' (w. Hannah Chappell, cello) (2020)
* ''MODULAR SESSIONS Nos. 1-9'' (editor and contributor) (2022)
Selected concerts
* London Olympia, 1986
* London Planetarium, 1989
* Brazilia Teatro Nacional, 1992
* London Astoria, 1991 & 1992
* London Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2005
* Philadelphia Franklin Institute Planetarium, 2005
* Pittsburgh Carnegie Center Planetarium, 2005
* Long Island NY Vanderbilt Planetarium, 2006
* Bochum Planetarium, Germany, 2008
* Greenwich Planetarium, London, 2009
* E-Live Festival, the Netherlands, 2010
* APosition Festival, Russia, 2012
* Seventh Wave Festival, Birmingham, 2019
* Ommadawn 45 Mike Oldfield convention 2022
References
External links
Mark Jenkins Website (2019)
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1960 births
Living people
British rock keyboardists
Welsh keyboardists