He first follows classic studies, in which he studies Mathematics at York University.
Already at that time, he gets involved in electronic music department, where he will learn how to manipulate the sound in every aspect.

After his studies, he gets back to London where he will work for a bank for 9 years.
Luck will find him in London with the meeting of Daniel Miller, the man behind Mute Records, who share the same passion for electro-acoustic music as PK.
Miller will ask PK to help him build a studio that will allow all Mute records artists to record in a proper and optimal way.

So PK starts to work as a sound engineer in Mute Studios and for many different Mute artists ( see a list of them below, some are not from Mute records). He gains a good reputation on all the records he works.

In 1995, with Daniel Miller and Mute Records, he decides to get back to his first love in music: electro-acoustic music. They launch some new set of albums called "The Parallel Series".

In 1997, He decided to take a break from Mute and work on his own and also spend more time in his family life and most of all his two small children, He leaves Mute at that time.

PK will collaborate to the recording of the album "Liquid" with Alan Wilder, which was released in 2000.

Not bearing anymore the London way of life, PK decides to leave London to go to Paris on early 2002.

He has met in 2001 a young French artist called Olivia Louvell with whom he will record an album: "The Digital Intervention - capture". One of the songs of this album: "Coma Idyllique" was recorded at the Thin Line - Alan Wilder's studio, who has contributed to the string arrangements of the song. The album was released in 2003 at the 0101 label.

Last but not least, PK also contributed to the recording of the new Recoil album: SubHuman.

Here are some albums, singles, remixes, videos and artists to which PK contributed in the past for recording, mixing, remixing, etc… :

Recoil : SubHuman , Liquid , Drifting, Stalker, Missing Piece
Depeche Mode: Songs of Faith And Devotion , Pleasure Little Treasure, Dangerous
Miranda Sex Garden : Iris
Nitzer Ebb : Belief , Divers 12" , I thought ( remix)
Nine Inch Nails : Broken , Happiness in Slavery
Barry Adamson : Delusion , Various 12" , Valley of Dolls (remix) , Oedipus Schmoedipus
Nick Cave : video live , vocals of PJ Harvey
Erasure : Circus, Gimme Gimme Gimme
Wire: Ibtaba
Goldfrapp : mix 4 titles live
Valérie Lermercier: album
and some more…

For more informations:

http://www.myspace.com/paulkendall/
http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/parallel/parallel.htm
http://www.0101-music.com/

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