I was born in 1960 in a small remote town in the middle of Germany. My father was a craftsman without any schooling. Since it is difficult for a latecomer like me to establish himself as a composer (especially if you have no relatives in show business and come from a remote town with non-academic parents), I first became a musician.
Since 1992 I have been the leader of the "Thomas Arens Com...
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I was born in 1960 in a small remote town in the middle of Germany. My father was a craftsman without any schooling. Since it is difficult for a latecomer like me to establish himself as a composer (especially if you have no relatives in show business and come from a remote town with non-academic parents), I first became a musician.
Since 1992 I have been the leader of the "Thomas Arens Combo". This band musically accompanies more than 50 carnival shows in Cologne every year.
For this band I also wrote seven different shows. In these shows I worked as a presenter, comedian, drummer, background singer and mixer.
I write most of the arrangements for my band.
I've written two books on drumming, explaining several groundbreaking rhythmic ideas - most notably my concept of "Chromatic Tempos."
Since 2013, I have also been working as a DJ.
From 1994 to 2000 (and again from 2021) I wrote several film scores.
I composed all the songs for the experimental music project "Die Fußgänger" 1988 - 1990 and finally...
...I've been releasing tracks under my alias "Inschrift Aura" since 2017.
You can hear most of my works at t-arens.com/page/EN-Tracks
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