AIR MACHINE is shipping now !
Official release: June 1st

artwork by Michal Karcz
Order your copy here!
Read the Sonic Immersion interview about the making of Air Machine on Sonic Immersion
I've been nominated for the Schalwelle electronic music awards.
So if you wanna have a chat, I'll be at the awards on Saturday evening 20th of Februari in Dinslaken, Germany.
A Merry Christmas to you all.
2009 has been a very succesful year.
It's been a very productive year and never before I've been producing that much albums in one year.
This is also why I hardly found any time to compose music for myself.
First own work to be released in 2010 will probably be the collaboration album with Kris De Bruyne (great Road Music !)
Air Machine is doing very well in the U.S. and went from 11 (last month) to 8 in the Echoes Top25.
Echoes is the biggest U.S. national radio program dedicated to Ambient,Electronic and instrumental music in general.
It is broadcasted on over 300 radio stations
I'll be spending most of the summer producing Mindgames' third album.
Later this year I'll be working on the Wollo/Van Bogaert album, a new Ghiribizzi album,a collaboration with singer/songwriter Kris De Bruyne and I'll probably start work on a brand new 1000 Ohm album.
I've been going through some very old recordings (1980-1985 era) and found some great songs and New Wave gems.
They just need to be recorded to today's standards.
On 12/9 I'll be at the Electronic Circus festival in Germany promoting Air Machine.
Sonic Immersion's Bert Strolenberg did an interview about the making of Air Machine read it on Sonic Immersion
Air Machine, the new album featuring Erik Wollo will be released June 1st.
I'm proud of this one and also of the fact that
this album explores new musical territories.
Because of our fruitful collaboration on Air Machine, Erik Wollo and I have decided we should work on a future full Wollo/Van Bogaert album .
NOMADS official release date has been set for December 15th.
Get it under your X-Mas tree in time and pre-order it at Groove unlimited
New CD NOMADS is ready!
New CD One out of Five is ready !
Frank's new album "Closer" has been completed, see home page.
New review of Colours reprinted CD by "Phil Derby / Electroambient Space" added.
New review of Colours reprinted CD by "Paul Rijkens / E-news" added.
Work n Frank's fifth album is now at a high !
More news: Ron Boots and Frank have started a musical collaboration, see home page.
Frank's first solo release CD Colours has been reprinted >
New review of Geographic cd by "Living Traditions magazine" added.
New review of Human cd by "Living Traditions magazine" added.
The new cd single "l'Etang/Hi-Tech Hippies" has been released.
Newsflash: E-Live CD single free for first 400 visitors.
New review of Human CD by Sven Cipido, Electron added.
New interview by Klem Magazine added.
New interview by Sequences Magazine added.
New portrait photo of Frank added.
New review of HUMAN CD by "Sonic Curiosity" added.
New review of HUMAN CD by "Frank Arenallo" added.
New review of HUMAN CD added. Click here!
E-Live review (German language) page added
E-Live photos section pages added >
New reviews of HUMAN CD can be found here!
Frank will perform on the E-live 2002 festival at the Technische Universiteit (TE) in Eindhoven on Saturday 21/9/2002.
He is sheduled to perform as first act in the evening. The set played will be a kind of "best of " compiled out of his four albums with an little emphasis on the latest release "Human".
Visit www.groove.nl for more details about the festival.
New Geographic/Docking review from German KEYBOARDS MAGAZINE can be found here!
1st review of HUMAN CD can be found here!
The NEW HUMAN CD has been released, order it here!
Biography
Born in 1962, Frank’s musical career started at age18 with the founding of the successful Belgian synth pop band 1000 Ohm.
He states: I consider these 1000 Ohm years, from 1980 to 1987, as my formative years.
They where more important than any other schooling I had.
When I listen back to material of that period, it’s obvious that it was all pretty awful stuff compared to what I’m doing now. But that’s when I learned to play and love synths. Curiously, the stuff is still in demand . I think this is mainly due to the fact that 1000 Ohm ‘s music is still regarded as a good showcase of the sound and attitude of the 80’s.
After 1000 Ohm’s split-up, Frank spent a couple of years engineering and producing for other bands before buying ACE Studio near Antwerp.
This is where Frank finally set up his business as a professional composer, producer and engineer.
ACE has always been run as a commercial studio, but since 1997 the studio is also regularly booked for the recording of Frank’s private music.
Since the first release of "COLOURS" in 1997, Frank immediately reached people with his ability to translate his emotions into instrumental, mostly synth based but very organic, music.
His following release,“Geographic,”(which won the German Schwingungen awards for three categories;best album;best song and best artist in 2000) really defined his style. His subsequent releases, “Docking” and “Human” both share this kind of magic, while more and more people come to know his music.
As label manager Ron Boots (Groove Unlimited) states: “people who get to know and like one Van Bogaert album, always come back and buy all of his other releases.
It’s also the unusual cross-over between his keyboard driven music and the kind of music that’s “more out there,” like film music or world oriented songs, that appeals to many.
When asked how he puts that emotion into his music, or what his trick is, Frank replies : “I really don’t know, it just happens. Maybe the fact that I’m a little introverted plays a role.
I always found it easier to talk in music then in words.
The joy of playing the piano,or any of my synths, has also always freed me from daily worries.
Maybe that’s my trick.
In 2006 'One out of Five',a 'best of' album was released.This album was compiled by choice of Frank's fans.
2007 was the 'Nomads' year. This album is by many regarded as Frank's best work ever.
A statement of living ambient legend Steve Roach about 'Nomads'
'if Vangelis heard one of these tracks he'd go looking for a day job'.
This year the album 'Air Machine' is being released.
It features Erik Wollo on guitars and explores new territory.
Synths
Samplers
Sequencers
Recording and processing gear