Discography

Live '23

Nekropolis '22

All pieces spontaneously composed and performed by:

Ray Cipolla: Drums
Gerhard Lallinger: Bass
Udo Gerhards: Keys
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.

As some of you might know, our long-time friend and bandmate Peter Frohmader died
suddenly and unexpectedly in May of 2022. But we, the three remaining Nekropolis members Ray, Gerhard and Udo 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!

All pieces spontaneously composed and performed by:
Ray Cipolla: Drums
Gerhard Lallinger: Bass
Udo Gerhards: Keys
Credits:
Produced by RCV Productions
Mixed by Ray Cipolla &amp; 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.
As some of you might know, our long-time friend and bandmate Peter Frohmader died
suddenly and unexpectedly in May of 2022. But we, the three remaining Nekropolis members Ray, Gerhard and Udo 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!

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