Franz Asensi

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Singer song-writer born in Valencia (Spain), one of the last old-school musicians of his generation regarding attitude, his music includes a wide variety of styles, from "depressive" slow ballads to agressive alternative-punk-rock catchy tunes. A loner by definition, has recorded most of his songs by himself, writing, arranging and recording all instruments at his home studio, although Jordifreek has put his talent to his services on a few brilliant guitar tracks, and Joan Gadea, Jimi Hernandez and Jordifreek himself had joined Franz to form the band "Allan Poets" for some live gigs. Franz's influences started when he started listening to his brothers cd's "Get a Grip" by Aerosmith and "Unplugged in New York" by Nirvana. Kurt Cobain's unique voice trapped him into alternative rock in general and Nirvana in particular. Mudhoney and Sonic Youth (and Nirvana, of course) became favourites of his early days as a composer, when he funded the band "Make Some Are Us" with his close friends Sergi Estelles and Abel Zaragoza. They recorded a demo, very dark and raw sounding, with Nirvana's "Bleach" as reference, although some other Spanish hard rock bands did have some influence in their sound too. Franz's taste for music kept broadening thanks to "Mak" from Mak y Los Desertores' local band. David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin, T-Rex and all sort of Glam Rock was the basics of what he was listening at the time (we're talking 1999-2000 here), and all of this can be glimpse

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