IT WAS 1999...
...when BIOnighT met, two people who couldn't possibly be more different from each other, but with musical souls that somehow manage to intertwine and work together.
Our common roots are to be found in the so called "Berlin School," the music created by German pioneers of electronic music such as Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze during the 70's. However, we mix any other musical genre into it, following just our emotions. In fact, we share a huge passion for music in general without any artificial limits - genres are irrelevant.
The result is a string of albums released by the German label Syngate. They all came out of many hours of work, discussions, even fights, all of them for the sole purpose of expressing ourselves through notes and sounds for those who are willing to hear and feel...

Email: macnight@inwind.it

 
 
 
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 (The Original Series, The Next Generation and Voyager), Gene Hackman, American English, OTR (that's Old Time Radio - I especially love the sci-fi shows), old movie serials, making music, 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, stupid and self-centered people, 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

Macvibes

Mac has 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.
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.
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!!

Mac