Biography
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 fruitful web marketing campaign.
Thanks to this, 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 was released in Italy under the indie label Echophonic in March 2008 and promoted on Italian radios during autumn 2008.
The band finally had its first gig ever in Milan on February 20th 2009, at the historical venue “Scimmie“.
Hinkel just released the new EP “Heaven And Hell”, including a cover of the homonymous song by John Entwistle, a favoulos cover of “Baba O’Riley”, an exclusive live version of “Run”, plus a brand new Hinkel track titled “Speed”.
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.
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.
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”).
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