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Peter Frohmader – Stringed Works (1994 - Album)
Tracklist:
[00:00:00] 1. Bass Symphony No. 2
Bass [4/8 String Basses], Fretless Bass, Electric Upright Bass [Electric Double Bass] – Peter Frohmader
Drums – Rudi Haunreiter
[00:22:49] 2. Symphony For Basses And Guitars
Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars], 12-String Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic 12 String Guitar], Electric Bass [Electric Basses], Electronics – Peter Frohmader
[00:45:57] 3. Bass Symphony No. 3
Bass [4/6/8 String Basses], Fretless Bass [Fretless Basses], Choir – Peter Frohmader
Solo Vocal [Solo Singing] – Birgit Metzger
[01:00:07] 4. Winter Music
Chapman Stick [Stick], Choir – Peter Frohmader
Solo Vocal [Solo Singing], Choir – Birgit Metzger
Credits:
Composed By [All Works Composed By] – Peter Frohmader
Mixed By [Digital Remix] – Peter Frohmader (tracks: 1 to 3)
Photography...
published: 02 Oct 2020
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Peter Frohmader
Electronic Studio May 2019
published: 22 May 2019
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Aus dem Schattenreich - Der Musiker Peter Frohmader
TV Portrait presenting some important aspects of the work of Peter Frohmader / Nekropolis in the fields of music and arts.
1970s - 2014
published: 12 Jul 2015
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Nekropolis' Peter Frohmader - Through Time and Mystery [HD]
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Through Time And Mystery (GEMA, 1988) remains probably his masterpiece. Medusa is a magical oration lasting 44 minutes. Rather than expire in the effects of "satanic" rock ensembles, Frohmader's suite draws heavily from the classical and jazz avant-garde. Stockhausen (in the chaotic and epic flow of the sound material), Ligeti (in the gusts of immanent sounds), Nono (in the electronic manipulations of the choruses), Cage (in the random piano "handfuls") are his musical, if not spiritual, masters. The danse macabre presses with its sinister pace into the abnormal dust of so many and such techniques of the avant-garde and at one point accelerates into a frenetic "industrial" rhyt...
published: 19 Jan 2023
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Peter Frohmader - Kanaan Live - 1975 - (Full Album)
1) Bizarro - 15.35
2) Rupicake - 7.53
3) Spaced Out - 13.02
4) Muzak Fur Beknckte - 21.10
5) Starnberger Prinzenscieben - 7.32
6) Flash Geief - 5.54
Bonus Tracks
7) Bulla - Bulla - 2.35
8) Paranoia Frame - 3.05
Dalla Germania ci arriva questo album di "Peter Frohmader & Michael Schobert" con il loro gruppo "Canaan Live" 75 contiene sei brani più due bonus che arrivano circa a 77 minuti di musica "Prog.- Krautrock - Elettronico - Sperimentale" Ricordando molto da vicino certi suoni alla Tangerine Dream - Gong. Un Capolavoro del suo genere, chi vuole ascoltarlo!.
published: 13 Oct 2021
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Peter Frohmader - Ritual
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Ritual (Multimood, 1986), performed entirely on electronic keyboards (except for the interventions of a violin and a saxophone) materializes the Frohmader of effect pieces (the martial progressions and Middle Eastern accents of Monolith, which hint at religious ceremonies, or the festive overture of Firmament) is merely a red herring: the core of the record already consists of experiments with rhythm, in tracks such as Magic and Arrival, in which melody is absent and swooping cadences and cascades of dissonance reign supreme.
Ecstasy's long suite sets a track an electronic bolero that is attacked by a myriad of dissonant parasites. In the rock world only early Soft Machine, Rob...
published: 23 Jan 2023
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Peter Frohmader - Homunculus
Peter Frohmader was an impressive talent of composition and orchestration. His gothic nightmares Nekropolis (1981), Cultes Des Goules (1985) and Ritual (1986), particularly the middle one, credited to Nekropolis established his credentials in manipulating electronic and acoustic sounds, and in creating claustrophobic atmospheres. The four-part electronic symphony Homunculus (1988) shifted gear and attained the menacing intensity of a futuristic vision.
This trend towards a chamber electronic music climaxed with the four parts of Homunculus, that were released on vol. 1 (Multimood, 1987), containing the first two parts (composed in 1985), and vol. 2 (Multimood, 1988), containing the last two parts (composed in 1986-87). Here, gothic and futuristic elements fuse and yield a music that shuns ...
published: 18 Jan 2023
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Peter Frohmader - Medusa Pt. 1 (1/2)
Through Time and Mystery - Ending
Artist: Peter Frohmader
Year: 1988
"Through Time and Mystery - Ending" is a double LP featuring four long compositions that has not yet been re-released on CD.
Musicians
Peter Frohmader: Synthesizer, Keyboards, Bass, Sampler
Tracklist
Side A
Medusa (Part 1)
Medusa (Part 2)
Side B
Plague Dances
Malleus Malleficarum
published: 17 Feb 2011
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Peter Frohmader
Electronic Studio May 2019
published: 22 May 2019
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Peter Frohmader - Emphasis
"Emphasis" by Peter Frohmader from the album Cycle of Eternity, released by Cuneiform Records.
Available for purchase:
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cycle-of-eternity/id392103885
Bandcamp - https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cycle-of-eternity
For more information: http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/frohmader.html
published: 28 Aug 2013
1:15:13
Peter Frohmader – Stringed Works (1994 - Album)
Tracklist:
[00:00:00] 1. Bass Symphony No. 2
Bass [4/8 String Basses], Fretless Bass, Electric Upright Bass [Electric Double Bass] – Peter Frohmader
Drums – R...
Tracklist:
[00:00:00] 1. Bass Symphony No. 2
Bass [4/8 String Basses], Fretless Bass, Electric Upright Bass [Electric Double Bass] – Peter Frohmader
Drums – Rudi Haunreiter
[00:22:49] 2. Symphony For Basses And Guitars
Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars], 12-String Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic 12 String Guitar], Electric Bass [Electric Basses], Electronics – Peter Frohmader
[00:45:57] 3. Bass Symphony No. 3
Bass [4/6/8 String Basses], Fretless Bass [Fretless Basses], Choir – Peter Frohmader
Solo Vocal [Solo Singing] – Birgit Metzger
[01:00:07] 4. Winter Music
Chapman Stick [Stick], Choir – Peter Frohmader
Solo Vocal [Solo Singing], Choir – Birgit Metzger
Credits:
Composed By [All Works Composed By] – Peter Frohmader
Mixed By [Digital Remix] – Peter Frohmader (tracks: 1 to 3)
Photography By [Photos By] – Peter Frohmader
Typography, Artwork [Image By] – Harakiri Design
Notes:
Track 1 in booklet titled as Bass Symphony No. 2 [Bass Inferno].
Track 2 in booklet titled as Symphony For Basses And Guitars [Outset].
Track 3 in booklet titled as Bass Symphony No. 3 [Creation].
Recorded at Nekropolis Studio, Munich, Germany;
Track 1: 1982 2: 1982/1983 3+4: 1984.
Digital remix of tracks 1+2+3: 1991 - 1993 at Nekropolis Studio.
https://wn.com/Peter_Frohmader_–_Stringed_Works_(1994_Album)
Tracklist:
[00:00:00] 1. Bass Symphony No. 2
Bass [4/8 String Basses], Fretless Bass, Electric Upright Bass [Electric Double Bass] – Peter Frohmader
Drums – Rudi Haunreiter
[00:22:49] 2. Symphony For Basses And Guitars
Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars], 12-String Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic 12 String Guitar], Electric Bass [Electric Basses], Electronics – Peter Frohmader
[00:45:57] 3. Bass Symphony No. 3
Bass [4/6/8 String Basses], Fretless Bass [Fretless Basses], Choir – Peter Frohmader
Solo Vocal [Solo Singing] – Birgit Metzger
[01:00:07] 4. Winter Music
Chapman Stick [Stick], Choir – Peter Frohmader
Solo Vocal [Solo Singing], Choir – Birgit Metzger
Credits:
Composed By [All Works Composed By] – Peter Frohmader
Mixed By [Digital Remix] – Peter Frohmader (tracks: 1 to 3)
Photography By [Photos By] – Peter Frohmader
Typography, Artwork [Image By] – Harakiri Design
Notes:
Track 1 in booklet titled as Bass Symphony No. 2 [Bass Inferno].
Track 2 in booklet titled as Symphony For Basses And Guitars [Outset].
Track 3 in booklet titled as Bass Symphony No. 3 [Creation].
Recorded at Nekropolis Studio, Munich, Germany;
Track 1: 1982 2: 1982/1983 3+4: 1984.
Digital remix of tracks 1+2+3: 1991 - 1993 at Nekropolis Studio.
- published: 02 Oct 2020
- views: 5507
8:44
Aus dem Schattenreich - Der Musiker Peter Frohmader
TV Portrait presenting some important aspects of the work of Peter Frohmader / Nekropolis in the fields of music and arts.
1970s - 2014
TV Portrait presenting some important aspects of the work of Peter Frohmader / Nekropolis in the fields of music and arts.
1970s - 2014
https://wn.com/Aus_Dem_Schattenreich_Der_Musiker_Peter_Frohmader
TV Portrait presenting some important aspects of the work of Peter Frohmader / Nekropolis in the fields of music and arts.
1970s - 2014
- published: 12 Jul 2015
- views: 1880
1:26:21
Nekropolis' Peter Frohmader - Through Time and Mystery [HD]
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Through Time And Mystery (GEMA, 1988) remains ...
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Through Time And Mystery (GEMA, 1988) remains probably his masterpiece. Medusa is a magical oration lasting 44 minutes. Rather than expire in the effects of "satanic" rock ensembles, Frohmader's suite draws heavily from the classical and jazz avant-garde. Stockhausen (in the chaotic and epic flow of the sound material), Ligeti (in the gusts of immanent sounds), Nono (in the electronic manipulations of the choruses), Cage (in the random piano "handfuls") are his musical, if not spiritual, masters. The danse macabre presses with its sinister pace into the abnormal dust of so many and such techniques of the avant-garde and at one point accelerates into a frenetic "industrial" rhythm whose mutations open up apocalyptic scenarios. The finale, on the other hand, is under the banner of celestial choruses and intergalactic signals. At once Charonian, Boschian, biblical and sci-fi, Medusa is an arduous meditation on the unknown.
The Plague Dances draw more explicitly on medieval iconography and folklore in a riot of horrific themes, Wagnerian choruses, marching tempos, symphonic instruments and ethnic quotations. Malleus Maleficarum, on the other hand, has the setting and depth of a classical sonata, although the magniloquence of the arrangements and the violence of the rhythms are reminiscent of the soundtracks of blockbusters.
Frohmader died in 2022 at the age of 63.
Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/frohmade.html
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Tracklist:
A Medusa Part I 00:00
B Medusa Part II 22:46
C Plague Dances 44:35
D Malleus Maleficarum 1:07:15
Credits:
Artwork [Linol Cut] – Peter Frohmader
Composed By [Composition], Orchestrated By [Orchestration By] – Peter Frohmader
Design [Cover Design] – P. Frohmader*
Engineer – Peter Frohmader
Mixed By [Final Mix] – Peter Frohmader
Painting [Paintings] – Hellmut Neukirch
Recorded end of 1987 at Nekropolis Studio, Munich.
Notes:
"paintings for 'Medusa' & 'Malleus Maleficarum' by Hellmut Neukirch
linol cut for 'Plague Dances' by Peter Frohmader"
'Medusa' painting signed 'H.Neukirch 88".
© & ℗ 1988
On labels: Schallplattenfabrik Pallas G.M.B.H., Diepholz
Gatefold sleeve.
Alternate artist credit inside gatefold: Nekropolis X
Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/926303-Peter-Frohmader-Nekropolis-Through-Time-And-Mystery-Ending
https://wn.com/Nekropolis'_Peter_Frohmader_Through_Time_And_Mystery_Hd
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Through Time And Mystery (GEMA, 1988) remains probably his masterpiece. Medusa is a magical oration lasting 44 minutes. Rather than expire in the effects of "satanic" rock ensembles, Frohmader's suite draws heavily from the classical and jazz avant-garde. Stockhausen (in the chaotic and epic flow of the sound material), Ligeti (in the gusts of immanent sounds), Nono (in the electronic manipulations of the choruses), Cage (in the random piano "handfuls") are his musical, if not spiritual, masters. The danse macabre presses with its sinister pace into the abnormal dust of so many and such techniques of the avant-garde and at one point accelerates into a frenetic "industrial" rhythm whose mutations open up apocalyptic scenarios. The finale, on the other hand, is under the banner of celestial choruses and intergalactic signals. At once Charonian, Boschian, biblical and sci-fi, Medusa is an arduous meditation on the unknown.
The Plague Dances draw more explicitly on medieval iconography and folklore in a riot of horrific themes, Wagnerian choruses, marching tempos, symphonic instruments and ethnic quotations. Malleus Maleficarum, on the other hand, has the setting and depth of a classical sonata, although the magniloquence of the arrangements and the violence of the rhythms are reminiscent of the soundtracks of blockbusters.
Frohmader died in 2022 at the age of 63.
Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/frohmade.html
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Tracklist:
A Medusa Part I 00:00
B Medusa Part II 22:46
C Plague Dances 44:35
D Malleus Maleficarum 1:07:15
Credits:
Artwork [Linol Cut] – Peter Frohmader
Composed By [Composition], Orchestrated By [Orchestration By] – Peter Frohmader
Design [Cover Design] – P. Frohmader*
Engineer – Peter Frohmader
Mixed By [Final Mix] – Peter Frohmader
Painting [Paintings] – Hellmut Neukirch
Recorded end of 1987 at Nekropolis Studio, Munich.
Notes:
"paintings for 'Medusa' & 'Malleus Maleficarum' by Hellmut Neukirch
linol cut for 'Plague Dances' by Peter Frohmader"
'Medusa' painting signed 'H.Neukirch 88".
© & ℗ 1988
On labels: Schallplattenfabrik Pallas G.M.B.H., Diepholz
Gatefold sleeve.
Alternate artist credit inside gatefold: Nekropolis X
Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/926303-Peter-Frohmader-Nekropolis-Through-Time-And-Mystery-Ending
- published: 19 Jan 2023
- views: 373
1:16:50
Peter Frohmader - Kanaan Live - 1975 - (Full Album)
1) Bizarro - 15.35
2) Rupicake - 7.53
3) Spaced Out - 13.02
4) Muzak Fur Beknckte - 21.10
5) Starnberger Prinzenscieben - 7.32
6) Flash Geief - 5.54
Bonus Track...
1) Bizarro - 15.35
2) Rupicake - 7.53
3) Spaced Out - 13.02
4) Muzak Fur Beknckte - 21.10
5) Starnberger Prinzenscieben - 7.32
6) Flash Geief - 5.54
Bonus Tracks
7) Bulla - Bulla - 2.35
8) Paranoia Frame - 3.05
Dalla Germania ci arriva questo album di "Peter Frohmader & Michael Schobert" con il loro gruppo "Canaan Live" 75 contiene sei brani più due bonus che arrivano circa a 77 minuti di musica "Prog.- Krautrock - Elettronico - Sperimentale" Ricordando molto da vicino certi suoni alla Tangerine Dream - Gong. Un Capolavoro del suo genere, chi vuole ascoltarlo!.
https://wn.com/Peter_Frohmader_Kanaan_Live_1975_(Full_Album)
1) Bizarro - 15.35
2) Rupicake - 7.53
3) Spaced Out - 13.02
4) Muzak Fur Beknckte - 21.10
5) Starnberger Prinzenscieben - 7.32
6) Flash Geief - 5.54
Bonus Tracks
7) Bulla - Bulla - 2.35
8) Paranoia Frame - 3.05
Dalla Germania ci arriva questo album di "Peter Frohmader & Michael Schobert" con il loro gruppo "Canaan Live" 75 contiene sei brani più due bonus che arrivano circa a 77 minuti di musica "Prog.- Krautrock - Elettronico - Sperimentale" Ricordando molto da vicino certi suoni alla Tangerine Dream - Gong. Un Capolavoro del suo genere, chi vuole ascoltarlo!.
- published: 13 Oct 2021
- views: 2966
45:49
Peter Frohmader - Ritual
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Ritual (Multimood, 1986), performed entirely o...
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Ritual (Multimood, 1986), performed entirely on electronic keyboards (except for the interventions of a violin and a saxophone) materializes the Frohmader of effect pieces (the martial progressions and Middle Eastern accents of Monolith, which hint at religious ceremonies, or the festive overture of Firmament) is merely a red herring: the core of the record already consists of experiments with rhythm, in tracks such as Magic and Arrival, in which melody is absent and swooping cadences and cascades of dissonance reign supreme.
Ecstasy's long suite sets a track an electronic bolero that is attacked by a myriad of dissonant parasites. In the rock world only early Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, and Matching Mole had attempted something similar.
Frohmader died in 2022 at the age of 63.
Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/frohmade.html
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Tracklist:
A1 Monolith 00:00
A2 Trance 5:40
A3 Magic 10:44
A4 Arrival 14:34
A5 Nightm:are 19:53
B1 Ecstasy 22:43
B2 Departure 34:00
B3 Firmament 39:38
Credits:
Alto Saxophone – Stefan Plett (tracks: B2, B3)
Composed By, Producer, Engineer, Cover, Performer – Peter Frohmader
Lacquer Cut By – PD*
Violin – Stephan Manus (tracks: A1, A4)
Notes:
Recorded at Nekropolis Studio, Munich 1985
https://wn.com/Peter_Frohmader_Ritual
Peter Frohmader is one of the most secluded composers of the new German electronic music (Muenchen, to be exact).
Ritual (Multimood, 1986), performed entirely on electronic keyboards (except for the interventions of a violin and a saxophone) materializes the Frohmader of effect pieces (the martial progressions and Middle Eastern accents of Monolith, which hint at religious ceremonies, or the festive overture of Firmament) is merely a red herring: the core of the record already consists of experiments with rhythm, in tracks such as Magic and Arrival, in which melody is absent and swooping cadences and cascades of dissonance reign supreme.
Ecstasy's long suite sets a track an electronic bolero that is attacked by a myriad of dissonant parasites. In the rock world only early Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, and Matching Mole had attempted something similar.
Frohmader died in 2022 at the age of 63.
Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/frohmade.html
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Tracklist:
A1 Monolith 00:00
A2 Trance 5:40
A3 Magic 10:44
A4 Arrival 14:34
A5 Nightm:are 19:53
B1 Ecstasy 22:43
B2 Departure 34:00
B3 Firmament 39:38
Credits:
Alto Saxophone – Stefan Plett (tracks: B2, B3)
Composed By, Producer, Engineer, Cover, Performer – Peter Frohmader
Lacquer Cut By – PD*
Violin – Stephan Manus (tracks: A1, A4)
Notes:
Recorded at Nekropolis Studio, Munich 1985
- published: 23 Jan 2023
- views: 264
1:33:04
Peter Frohmader - Homunculus
Peter Frohmader was an impressive talent of composition and orchestration. His gothic nightmares Nekropolis (1981), Cultes Des Goules (1985) and Ritual (1986), ...
Peter Frohmader was an impressive talent of composition and orchestration. His gothic nightmares Nekropolis (1981), Cultes Des Goules (1985) and Ritual (1986), particularly the middle one, credited to Nekropolis established his credentials in manipulating electronic and acoustic sounds, and in creating claustrophobic atmospheres. The four-part electronic symphony Homunculus (1988) shifted gear and attained the menacing intensity of a futuristic vision.
This trend towards a chamber electronic music climaxed with the four parts of Homunculus, that were released on vol. 1 (Multimood, 1987), containing the first two parts (composed in 1985), and vol. 2 (Multimood, 1988), containing the last two parts (composed in 1986-87). Here, gothic and futuristic elements fuse and yield a music that shuns tonal centers, embraces stochastic rhythm, downplays the role of consonance to mere ornament. The basic pattern is almost always the symphonic metamorphosis, that transforms a quiet ouverture in an apocalypse of terrible sounds.
Each part is extremely rich of events, hardly related to contemporary techniques of static contemplation. The music is both highly dramatic and highly dynamic. Each part is, basically, a symphony in its own. The first part opens with a sinister atmosphere for flute, piano and background drones. As the flute intones a gentle psalm, the piano hits furiously. The interplay climaxes in a quasi-orchestral crescendo that leads to folkish melodic themes. Drums and choir opens the last nine minutes, which, for a while, indulge in a dreamy mood. A frantic scherzo, built upon minimalistic lines a` la Michael Nyman, drives the last four minutes.
The second part opens with a soprano voice floating above loud and aggressive violin drones and thundering piano clusters. The rhythmic attack increases when the drums enter the scene, while the violins turn into screeching animals, thus creating a nightmarish convulsion. Chaos increases as beats and dissonances rule the piece for a few minutes. Then out of the chaos there comes a series of overlapping and iterative keyboard patterns. Again, Michael Nyman is the inspiration for resurrecting the music, that furiously rises until self-destructing.
The third part opens with a sorrowful melody and a steady beat. The rhythmic charge carries on into a gypsy motif, drowned in a jungle of sounds. After seven minutes the music dissolves into floating galactic dust. That eventually coalesces into a gothic choir and massive drones. The rhythm returns loud and frantic, sustaining disconnected phrases by a saxophone. Ghostly voices roam the wasteland of the last four minutes.
After a brief ouverture, the fourth part delves into a cascade of rhythmic patterns. The intensity keeps increasing. Even when it finally subsides, this is the busiest of the four parts, continuously rebuilding walls of sounds as they are destroyed. It concludes with an apocalypotic march of the damned, a female choir battling an army of androids.
Frohmader died in 2022 at the age of 63.
Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/frohmade.html
Tracklist:
A Homunculus Part 1 00:00
B Homunculus Part 2 22:21
C Homunculus Part 3 44:09
D Homunculus Part 4 1:08:20
https://wn.com/Peter_Frohmader_Homunculus
Peter Frohmader was an impressive talent of composition and orchestration. His gothic nightmares Nekropolis (1981), Cultes Des Goules (1985) and Ritual (1986), particularly the middle one, credited to Nekropolis established his credentials in manipulating electronic and acoustic sounds, and in creating claustrophobic atmospheres. The four-part electronic symphony Homunculus (1988) shifted gear and attained the menacing intensity of a futuristic vision.
This trend towards a chamber electronic music climaxed with the four parts of Homunculus, that were released on vol. 1 (Multimood, 1987), containing the first two parts (composed in 1985), and vol. 2 (Multimood, 1988), containing the last two parts (composed in 1986-87). Here, gothic and futuristic elements fuse and yield a music that shuns tonal centers, embraces stochastic rhythm, downplays the role of consonance to mere ornament. The basic pattern is almost always the symphonic metamorphosis, that transforms a quiet ouverture in an apocalypse of terrible sounds.
Each part is extremely rich of events, hardly related to contemporary techniques of static contemplation. The music is both highly dramatic and highly dynamic. Each part is, basically, a symphony in its own. The first part opens with a sinister atmosphere for flute, piano and background drones. As the flute intones a gentle psalm, the piano hits furiously. The interplay climaxes in a quasi-orchestral crescendo that leads to folkish melodic themes. Drums and choir opens the last nine minutes, which, for a while, indulge in a dreamy mood. A frantic scherzo, built upon minimalistic lines a` la Michael Nyman, drives the last four minutes.
The second part opens with a soprano voice floating above loud and aggressive violin drones and thundering piano clusters. The rhythmic attack increases when the drums enter the scene, while the violins turn into screeching animals, thus creating a nightmarish convulsion. Chaos increases as beats and dissonances rule the piece for a few minutes. Then out of the chaos there comes a series of overlapping and iterative keyboard patterns. Again, Michael Nyman is the inspiration for resurrecting the music, that furiously rises until self-destructing.
The third part opens with a sorrowful melody and a steady beat. The rhythmic charge carries on into a gypsy motif, drowned in a jungle of sounds. After seven minutes the music dissolves into floating galactic dust. That eventually coalesces into a gothic choir and massive drones. The rhythm returns loud and frantic, sustaining disconnected phrases by a saxophone. Ghostly voices roam the wasteland of the last four minutes.
After a brief ouverture, the fourth part delves into a cascade of rhythmic patterns. The intensity keeps increasing. Even when it finally subsides, this is the busiest of the four parts, continuously rebuilding walls of sounds as they are destroyed. It concludes with an apocalypotic march of the damned, a female choir battling an army of androids.
Frohmader died in 2022 at the age of 63.
Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/frohmade.html
Tracklist:
A Homunculus Part 1 00:00
B Homunculus Part 2 22:21
C Homunculus Part 3 44:09
D Homunculus Part 4 1:08:20
- published: 18 Jan 2023
- views: 864
11:11
Peter Frohmader - Medusa Pt. 1 (1/2)
Through Time and Mystery - Ending
Artist: Peter Frohmader
Year: 1988
"Through Time and Mystery - Ending" is a double LP featuring four long compositions ...
Through Time and Mystery - Ending
Artist: Peter Frohmader
Year: 1988
"Through Time and Mystery - Ending" is a double LP featuring four long compositions that has not yet been re-released on CD.
Musicians
Peter Frohmader: Synthesizer, Keyboards, Bass, Sampler
Tracklist
Side A
Medusa (Part 1)
Medusa (Part 2)
Side B
Plague Dances
Malleus Malleficarum
https://wn.com/Peter_Frohmader_Medusa_Pt._1_(1_2)
Through Time and Mystery - Ending
Artist: Peter Frohmader
Year: 1988
"Through Time and Mystery - Ending" is a double LP featuring four long compositions that has not yet been re-released on CD.
Musicians
Peter Frohmader: Synthesizer, Keyboards, Bass, Sampler
Tracklist
Side A
Medusa (Part 1)
Medusa (Part 2)
Side B
Plague Dances
Malleus Malleficarum
- published: 17 Feb 2011
- views: 3503
2:07
Peter Frohmader - Emphasis
"Emphasis" by Peter Frohmader from the album Cycle of Eternity, released by Cuneiform Records.
Available for purchase:
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/al...
"Emphasis" by Peter Frohmader from the album Cycle of Eternity, released by Cuneiform Records.
Available for purchase:
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cycle-of-eternity/id392103885
Bandcamp - https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cycle-of-eternity
For more information: http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/frohmader.html
https://wn.com/Peter_Frohmader_Emphasis
"Emphasis" by Peter Frohmader from the album Cycle of Eternity, released by Cuneiform Records.
Available for purchase:
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cycle-of-eternity/id392103885
Bandcamp - https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cycle-of-eternity
For more information: http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/frohmader.html
- published: 28 Aug 2013
- views: 1543