OUR STORY...

It is the end of a day like many when FaBIO, going home after work, sees a young hitchhiker, Abraham. Following a mysterious impulse, he decides to give him a ride. The kid's sweet and clean face prompts him to start a conversation about the CD's the kid has with him, even if that's not his kind of music. Abraham, though, reveals that his uncle - Mac - shares FaBIO's insane passion for "classic" electronic music and for all those musicians most people don't even know exist; FaBIO decides he wants to meet this "extraterrestrial".
Following his dashing and enthusiastic nature, he calls Mac that very night; during the brief talk they find out they live about five minutes by car from each other - another strange coincidence. They meet around one hour later and immediately understand that they can communicate their emotions together to anybody who is willing to listen, thru the universal language of music.
It's January 1999 when in the BIOlofT the duo begins to work on their first album, Egoheart 1999, mixing their individual experiences and taking their modest gear where no such instrument has gone before. The album is made up of five pieces and one suite, which is named after the band (and vice versa): BIOnighT. The demo is sent to several labels, but no positive result comes out of that; our heroes soon realize that their music doesn't fit into the limits labels impose for commercial reasons and start looking for different channels of distribution.

 



The web seems to be the perfect means to spread their musical message without restrictions and without having to make their music "commercial"(in the negative sense of the word). A promo of their first album - Egoheart 1999 - is sent to several websites on electronic music to have it reviewed. Among them there is also a German website called Syngate, which publishes some very flattering comments about the CD. This would turn out to be a more important encounter than they thought at that time... In fact, after a few months, Syngate's boss decides to start his own label, and BIOnighT are among the first artists to be contacted and later released by Syngate. A new phase had begun...

This little adventure - so small, yet so important to us - continues...

Before we forget: the email address bionight@tiscalinet.it is no longer valid (killed by spam, thanks a lot), so please eliminate it from your address book. To write BIOnighT please use the following address: macnight@inwind.it - just click on it to write us about whatever, if time permits we'll get back to you :)

Name: Mac of BIOnighT

Born: Luino, September 14, 1964

Lives in: Luino (VA) Italy

Loves: anime (especially the super robot animes from the 70's and 80's, but also recent ones, such as Evangelion), music, pictures, manga, Star Trek (especially The Next Generation and Voyager), Gene Hackman, American English, Go Nagai, playing, nature, rocks, the sound of washing machines, the early Marvel and DC comics, watching the stars, Peanuts by Schulz, electronic instruments, and more...

Hates: dogs' barking, little (and not so little) things that go wrong one after the other, every form of fanaticism and narrow mindedness, the sound of lawnmowers, backstabbing hypocrites, and more...

Favorite musicians: Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, Depeche Mode, Rockets, Italian theme songs of anime series from the 70's and 80's, Matia Bazar, De Sfroos, Celtic music in general, Vangelis (some things), Doris Norton, BIOnighT, Sbrizzi FaBIO, Mac, and more...

Secret dream: to become.

Name: Sbrizzi FaBIO of BIOnighT

Born: Milan - May 11, 1956

Lives in: Luino (VA) Italy

Loves: the sun, watching the snow fall, flying kites, dogs, Kubrick, Milan soccer team, my family, Tex Willer, going mushrooming, riding my motorcycle, loyalty, the emotions given by music, life in general...

Hates: wine and alcohol, reptiles, cold weather, hypocrites, getting up on Monday mornings...

Favorite musicians: Beethoven, Fabrizio de Andrč, Leonard Cohen, Klaus Schulze, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, De Sfroos, Loreena McKennitt, Celtic music in general, electronic music of the 70's in general, BIOnighT, and more…

Secret dream: to give a concert in the Duomo of Milan

Hobbies: Archery; learning to play the zither (see video )
Macvibes

Mac has recently put his own website on line; there you will find all of his solo albums and lots of MP3 excerpts to have a sample of his vast production.
If you want to visit his website, click HERE.
Sbrizzi FaBIO - Comunicare

As you know, FaBIO has recently released his first solo album - Comunicare. However, his own website is not ready yet, so we have prepared a temporary page for his album with notes and MP3 excerpts that you can visit by clicking HERE .
SynG@te

SynG@te, the label that releases BIOnighT's albums. Lothar Lubitz, its boss, is a true lover of music and a great guy, too. He has the uttermost respect for the creative freedom of his artists. His genuine love for EM (Electronic Music) has allowed his label to become one of the best and most respected of the niche market occupied by this kind of music. Beside BIOnighT's records, he releases material by many great musicians and bands, such as Syn, Godfried Stockman, Frank Klare, E=motion, and many more - an ever growing number of artists that are given the chance to be heard thanks to this man's passion. If you want to visit his website, click HERE.
MORE LINKS:
ON LINE MAGAZINES

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC
ELECTROAMBIENT SPACE
AURAL INNOVATIONS
21st CENTURY MUSIC
MUSICIANS and friends
QUASARS
ALAIN GROETZINGER
SYNDROMEDA
SYN
DJINNSPHERE
SMELL THE STENCH
A "THANK YOU" NOTE from Mac (and FaBIO, too)...
Like so many artists all over the world, I live on a very tight budget which - quite simply - prevents me from buying all those costly music machines you can see under the fingers of people like Jarre or Vangelis. This has very often stopped me from making music at all in the past, but fortunately that is no longer the case. Why? Well, because on this planet where everything and (horrible to say) every life turns on money, there's a bunch of mad scientists who create some wonderful virtual instruments and make them available for free to anybody willing and happy to make music with them.
These instruments and effects units called "VST's" are basically (for the non musicians among you) synthesizers etc. in the form of software; the machine is no longer a "physical" object, but an image on the computer screen that generates sounds and noises just like a "real" musical machine. The hardware versions of those machines would cost so much that so many people like me would be forced not to play, and therefore a lot less genuine, non-market-driven music would exist.
I've been using with more than satisfactory results all the free VST's I've found since the end of 2004, and BIOnighT have been using them since their "The Rain is Over" album. The limitations to creativity are very, very few. So, a HUGE "Thank you!!" goes out to all those brilliant, talented, and so very generous developers thanks to whom music can go on!!
Oh, and for the curious musicians among you, HERE is a partial and incomplete list of the VST's we use.
Try them out, they are greater than you would expect!

Mac