SPOTLIGHT
“Ahhh, sweet bird of youth”… a musical bird that is. After being in the “business” of show for over six years now, this 26-year-old musical artist is hitting his stride. With co-producer, collaborator and song writer, Martin “Cherry Cherry Boom Boom,” Frankmusik, aka Vincent Frank has nestled into a groove that really has him spreading his wings of talent. His new CD, Do It in the AM brings it forward with all the energy and effervescence
of Justin Timberlake’s musical work. The sound is pure pop with a modern blast of “electro” power. Here for The Rage Monthly, Frank elaborates on his career path, a path that has him touring with Erasure and producing Erasure’s latest vibrant and successful album Tomorrow’s World. All this and he has just released his CD, it’s all in the mix and all of it works. Frankmusik seems to be striving to “not” follow the pack of musical pyrotechnics
right now. That is what keeps him one step ahead and “one to follow” in the ever- changing world of pop music.
You’re now touring with Erasure in the U.K. Please tell me about where you grew up there? I grew up in a place called Croydon, which is a suburban town, 13 miles just out of
Central London. It’s in the southeast of London… it’s like a concrete jungle. Not the New York type. We’re only famous for Kate Moss and having a really big IKEA (laughter). That’s where I came from. What was some of the first music you remember really enjoying as a kid? 1980s “synth pop” mostly like ABC or Bananarama. Stuff like that.
One of my favorites off your CD Do It in the AM, is “No Champagne” a duet you do with Natalia Kills. The combination of your voices on that is excellent. I wrote that song and liked it, but I wanted to turn it into a duet. I called up Martin
(Cherry Cherry Boom Boom) Kierszenbaum and said, “Let’s put Natalia on there. I was on my way to the airport at the time, so I couldn’t figure it out, he took the song that I sent him. I was never there when she did the session and she just sang what I wrote— that was it. Okay, it’s pretty and one of the nicer ballads I’ve heard in a while. Yeah, absolutely. I wanted to turn it into “two people who are talking to each other,”
rather than one person talking to an invisible person who is not on the record. It’s fun to do that.
by bill biss “There are words that come up, when I think of touring with Erasure.
We traveled nine-and-a-half thousand miles in a Chrysler Town and Country. So, that would be the equivalent of flying from Vegas to London and back. I mean, it was huge—America… you can’t even fathom how big a place it is, unless you actually put yourself on that journey.”
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RAGE monthly | NOVEMBER 2011
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