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DVD screenshots, june 2004

Some screenshots from one of our working versions of the Nekropolis 23 DVD. The live portion of the DVD will be augmented by some bonus material: Peter has resurrected one of his experimental films from the early 80s, "Seelenwanderung" (which translates als "transmigration" / "metempsychosis"). The soundtrack of this 23 minute film will be Peter's "Tiefe" ("The Deep"), which has been previously released on cassette only, an extended electronic composition from ca. 1982, created with the PPG Wave 2 synthesizer.

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Title	Dramatis Personae	Quartett 1
Trio	Peter	Holger
Quartett 2	Matthias	Udo + Peter
Chris	Matthias + Udo

Finishing the Nekropolis 23 video, may 2004

On may, 24th, Peter and Udo went to Frank Fiedler's studio to put the finishing touches to our Nekropolis 23 video. We synched the mastered audio and video recordings, did some last cutting and decided on a tracklist and running order. The finished video ist ca. 83 minutes in length and features 10 songs in different configurations of the band: the core trio (bass, drums, keys), quartet (the trio plus violin or guitar and one piece in a violin, guitar, bass, drums lineup) and a large lineup consisting of the core trio plus guitar plus violin. (Previous images from the video recording sessions)

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Peter, Franks video workstation	Frank, hard at work	In the fullsize image you can see a screen shot of the actual video in the upper left monitor.

Nekropolis 23 plus Rainer Lange from Trigon, may 2004

Guitarist Rainer Lange from our friends Trigon joined Nekropolis 23 for an extended session for a 2nd time after November of last year. Some of the recordings of the first session will probably be included in the next Nekropolis 23 CD.

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Rainer Lange and his new, charming and glowingly orange Trigon-T-Shirt	Holger, kneeling before the shrine Martin, looking sceptic	Ala, riveted by our music
Lots of drums and cymbals... ...Holger, somewhere in-between	Rainer	Peter and his fantastic Ritter bass
Power-Trio: Holger, Rainer, Peter	Power-Trio, the 2nd: Rainer, Holger, Peter	Power-Duo: Holger, Peter

Video recording session, april 2004

In april 2004 Frank Fiedler from Popol Vuh, who is nowadays working as a cameraman, filmed a Nekropolis 23 live in studio session with several professional digital video cameras. Chris Karrer from Amon Düül II joined us on violin (until he broke it while playing...) and guitar for some songs. Peter's friend Martin supervised the recording of the music. The music itself was completely improvised (business as usual for Nekropolis 23...)

The long-term plan is to author a DVD from the footage. But first, we'll have to sift throught the pile of tapes from 3 cameras and decide which material is good enough. Then we'll have to cut the film and find someone who is willing to turn this into a DVD within our very limited budget...

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Holger Röder, Udo Gerhards, Peter Frohmader	Matthias Friedrich	Chris Karrer
Frank Fiedler	Martin Grabowski