Werkraum

Werkraum is the creative music works of German musician Axel Frank.
Growing up in the fields of experimental music and post-industrial music with several other projects since the early 1990s, Axel Frank began to adapt a more melodic neofolk, electronic and dark ambient approach. Under the new name Werkraum (German for «Work Room»), Frank released this material on CDRs and multiple compilations in the late 1990s and early 2000s until debuting with a full length LP on Cold Spring Records in 2004. Frank continued to release material on various compilations until and after the release of 2005’s Kristalle, Werkraum’s second album, focused on more melancholic and psychedelic original folk music tunes, based in parts on Traditional music and early music. With Early love Music in 2008, Frank sets a mark on his path to his own characteristic mixture of traditional folk music and modern folk rock plus a fresh reinvention of German-speaking psych folk. With elaborated guitar and string play, the use of multiple languages, amongst others Old French and Middle High German, Werkraum receive a more and more worldwide recognition, partly reminding of bands like the early Ougenweide or Fit & Limo.
Members of the British Gothic-Folk act Lady Morphia, German singer Antje Hoppenrath, the members of the late sixties US Folk band Changes and from the Austrian Folk band Sturmpercht have also contributed to Werkraum. Frank has since become a member of Austrian alpine tradition Folk band Sturmpercht, where under the pseudonym Hanns Aufschring he plays a distinctive musical role, while his work for live sessions and for studio- and mastering engineering for international artists like as well as for local and European independent labels continues. New and more progressive works for Werkraum are announced for 2009 and 2010. Frank is living in Berlin, Germany.