Tripping with Nils Frahm

Beautiful! Wonderful! Amazing! The sound quality is fantastic. The direction is brilliant. And the artist, well, absolutely tremendous! Such passion, such finesse. Please watch :)

Puts you directly back to your own live experience if you had the privilege of it. For all others it's nothing less than the best equivalent to it - particularly in times of Covid. A great performance by a genius musician brilliantly captured. Highly recommended!

What is art, what is an artist. Nils Frahm is the answer to all these questions. I watched this man live three times. I'm still excited to see him. This production is a typical concert movie. The incredible camera usage is admirable. We should also thank Brad Pitt for providing us with this work. So he is also a Nils Frahm fan. I was also very happy for this. They had already worked together in Ad-Astra.

Nils Frahm creates amazing minimal & neoclassical music, mixing classical piano with modern synthesizers. He can effortlessly go from a grand piano, to a children's toy piano, to echo/reverb- and loop heavy synthesizer pieces in a single song, with transitions so seamless you hardly notice it.

Nils uses a collection of classic Roland equipment, with multiple Juno-60 synthesizers and Chorus Echo RE-501's, which he all mixes together himself during the concert performance.

Nils likes to improvise, so every concert he does, the songs sound a bit (to a lot) different. For example, this collage of "Tripping with Nils Frahm" recordings contains a lot of older songs, but some are completely transformed. For example, "Fundamental Values" is an amazing evolution to the same song from the "All Melody" album version! This concert features great quiet piano pieces, to all the big songs he is known for, like "Says", "All Melody" and "More". And as usual on a live show, of course the epic "Toilet Brushes" also make an appearance again.

For this concert, Nils was in complete control of the filming, and it shows in what details the camera focusses on. In "normal" concert recordings, like those you may find on the internet, the focus is more on the general stage, the audience, the atmosphere, and perhaps a bit on the artist.

In this film however, the focus is nearly completely on the music, and how Nils creates it. You will see (and hear) every button press, every clicked switch, every key hit. It is a very refreshing view on a concert recording.

I recommend you watch your favorite songs multiple times, and focus on different elements of the song each time. You will discover details you've never noticed before!

Great music from Nils Frahm! My only problem with this documentary: I just watched this piece at the MUBI streaming service and the video drops a frame every second! I mean, this is supposed to be a professional piece... it really distracts the viewer. This cheapens the experience. Hopefully this is just a MUBI quality control issue and you won't experience it in other streaming services or media.

It is not as terrible as the Talking Heads documentary audio getting out of sync with the image the more you kept watching.

At least you can enjoy his beautiful music and closing your eyes.

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