Here’s another recent release I played on, a recording of the improvisational trio Nekropolis ’22 live at the Peter Frohmader Memorial Concert, April 29th 2023 at Kulturkeller, München.
Buy download or CD here: https://phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/live-23
Tracklist:
- Das Ding auf der Schwelle 05:41
- Turm der Gedanken 08:45
- Die schwarze Katze 05:07
- Im Fluss der Zeit 09:09
- Die Gezeiten 07:10
All pieces spontaneously composed and performed by:
- Ray Cipolla: Drums
- Gerhard Lallinger: Bass
- Udo Gerhards: Keyboards
Credits:
Produced by RCV Productions
Mixed by Ray Cipolla & Udo Gerhards
Cover painting “Das Ding auf der Schwelle” by Peter Frohmader
Cover design by Ulrich Miksa
Live audio engineer: Michi Greger
Live photos: Volker Derlath
Many thanks to the team of Kulturkeller Westend, esp. Günther Klingler and Michi Greger.
Released July 13, 2023
In memoriam Peter Frohmader, 1958-2022
Live video
Image gallery
Live photographs by Volker Derlath:
Udo’s personal note
tl;dr: Here’s a live album by my improvisational rock trio Nekropolis ’22. It’s very listenable, it sounds great and I’m quite proud of it.
Now for the long version:
As some of you might know, my long-time friend and bandmate Peter Frohmader died suddenly and unexpectedly last year (I had played with Peter for more than 20 years in his Nekropolis project). But the three remaining Nekropolis members Ray, Gerhard and myself kept making music together after Peter’s passing.
A couple of months ago we organized a memorial concert for Peter, close to the one year anniversary of his passing (and his birthday as well). There, three bands connected to Peter played – among them Nekropolis ’22, which is the name of the new trio formed by the former Nekropolis members (named so with the blessing of Peter’s widow Antje). We were able to multi-track record our performance at this concert and the recording turned out so well that we decided to make a release out of it.
As for the music itself, it is completely improvised. But fear not! This is neither free jazz noodling nor jam rock. We still try to practice what Peter liked to call “spontaneous composition”: Improvisations that have structure and lead somewhere (of course there’s some jazzy stuff in there, but also Hammond Organ, Mellotron and more). And I think we were quite lucky to have recorded a gig where we came quite close to this goal, IMHO. This paired with the excellent sound quality of the multi-track recordings resulted in this release. Special thanks go out to the live engineer Michi Greger and to Uli Miksa for the cover design!
Like I said, I’m quite proud of this release, I hope you enjoy it, too!
Phaneronaut 