... the devil behind the cause.
Frank Makak picked up the guitar when he was 4 years old... and learned how to play it some 10 years later, but his passion for music was there from the first time he could actually get to see a guitar or hold a pair of drum sticks.
While still in elementary school, he fell into punk rock. The Ramones, The Clash, The Damned and Pistols were common names in his, ahem, cassette collection.
But the two things that would open his mind even further would be picking up the guitar (for real) and getting his first copy of The Clash's "London Calling" for Christmas when he was 10 or 11 (this album changed so many lives, you know... Frank's life was next on the list back then). It was all about having no such thing as limits, and discovering new territories.
Then in college, Frank would team up with Jay, also an Art student like Frank, and started a darker side-project band called NightVisioN. Influences of the Misfits, Samhain and Danzig were evident, but lo-fi techno, DIY punk rock, acoustic folk, spoken word poetry and even reggae music would show through what was going to be something that would leave a mark on Frank's songwriting.
Eventually, Frank moved out of his hometown (a small town called Jonquière) and landed in the (subterranean) jungle that is Montreal. That's where he built his own studio. The SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE studio.
