My name is Martin, born in 1978. At the age of 8 I started playing the piano, with 14 the guitar and soon formed my first band. With the time I teached myself bass and drum and always experimented with everything making sounds and noise. And as well I was interested in recording, mixing and mastering. All these I trained and improved continously and still do, but I'm not any kind of pro.

For about 15 years I performed in several bands, mainly playing guitar and drums. I enjoied this very much, but with the time it became more and more difficult to find people on the same wavelength and in addition to deal with everyones jobs and familly and such things. Allthough this was very frustrating I also realized that there are a lot of limitations which come along with a band. At this point the idea for this project was born.

Even it's a solo-project, everyone is welcome to colaborate in any way and amount he likes to. Besides I write my own songs (which also means something like new versions of songs I played years ago with my bands), I also take more or less popular tracks and make my version of it. This way the first recordings were generated and this was one aspect for the name "black phoenix". It's mainly music, but I also do photography and plan to do some video.