“By the phaneron I mean the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not.” (Charles Sanders Peirce)
Phaneronaut is the solo project of Udo Gerhards (he/him), a musician from Munich, Germany. Phaneronaut is located on the edge of electronic music, progressive rock and everything else Udo likes and finds musically interesting, from analog synthesizers to orchestral arrangements and anything in between.
Udo has been playing music for more than 40 years and composing for nearly as long. He has been the member of a few bands as well, notably the progressive rock band Scythe (1998-2001, with Thomas Thielen aka t), the jam-rock band Trigon (2004-2005) and the improvisational Krautrock project Peter Frohmader’s Nekropolis (2002-2022), see discogs.com. Since Peter Frohmader’s death in 2022, he has been playing with some Ex-Nekropolis musicians under the name Nekropolis ’22, and he’s also the keyboard player for a fun funk/jazzrock four-piece called fuTunes.
You can get all of his solo music for free on Bandcamp: phaneronaut.bandcamp.com
Of course, all the Phaneronaut albums (and a few singles and EPs) are also available for streaming:
If at all possible, please do not use Spotify.
You can find more detailed information and specific links to all Phaneronaut albums on Bandcamp or on the streaming services in the releases section of this website.
Socials
You can follow Phaneronaut/Udo on several social networks:
Licenses
A note on licenses/licensing: All music under the name Phaneronaut on Bandcamp is released under a Creative Commons BY 3.0 license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
You can freely use and transform any of it (also commercially) as long as you attribute the source. In case attribution according to the license is not possible just contact Phaneronaut at phaneronaut@gmail.com and something can surely be worked out.
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