alionsonny is a little word-puzzle: many times in my life I felt (and still feel) like an alien among the people around me. I had some very bad times in the past, but I fought like a lion to get through. alien and lion makes lion... yes, and my friends call me sonny, got it ? ;o)

Currently I do not play live because of a lack of opportunities. Since I performed only non digital music in the past in a live-situation, I have no live-experience with my current equipment. I forgot to tell: all of the alionsonny-tracks are produced on a software-only-equipment.

In many ways. Later on, when I've got the time to go into this topic, maybe I'll write more.

Hummm, under certain circumstances for sure, but be aware guys: I am not a lightweight in negotiations.

At the age of 7 my dad bought me a cheap 60$ guitar and that was how everything started. I sat in front of my small blue radio and tried to jam with the songs. The song I remind most is "Touch too much" by AC/DC which was played very often in these days. Hehe, I think you can imagine how it sounded when I was trying to imitate the sound of the e-guitars of AC/DC using a cheap nylonstring guitar ;o)

I learned very quick and at the age of 10 I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and an amplifier using the money from my job delivering newspapers. I learned to play solo guitar and that was the time, when I met some strange guys with very colorfull hair and leather outfit at school. When I told them that I play guitar, they were interested in listening to me playing, because they had several problems with their current guitarist. They liked what I did and so I joined my first band, a punk band called CFF (Call for Freedom). We did some gig in punkrock clubs in the next city called Kassel. Yeah several times I was brought home by the cops, because I was 14 at this time, and because of this not allowed to perform in clubs at night.

My family moved to the north of germany, where I founded a experimental punk band called "The X-Rays". We did crazy experiments, using trashed synthesizers, parts from the junkyard, garbage can and other stuff cabeled them... all was some kind of weird.

To make it a bit shorter: I played in several bandsafter that, learned to play keyboards, bass and drums....

no time to write further... stay tuned... to be continued...

Influences... let me think... many names and sounds are floating through my brain, when I think about that question. First in line I think is Pink Floyd. Yes, their music gave me a hint what sound can be about. I heard much folk-music from allmost every place on earth. since my family comes originally from ireland I have surely many influences from this side. But other musicians were a great inspiration in the past years:

Nusrath Fateh Ali Khan, Bill Laswell, Klaus Schulze, Prodigy, Ska P, Soul Captain Band, Hedningarna, Garmarna, Corvus Corax, Zen Cafe, YUP, Hans Soellner, Haindling, Jacob Miller, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Weird Al Yankowich...

ok, stop here, this is enough...

Jamaica

A whole bunch of VST-Instruments and Effects.

my voice, my imagination, creativity, chaos, musical accidents and much more of this.