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'Tripping With Nils Frahm:' Four Sweaty Berlin Nights Captured Onscreen

The new concert film, shot in 2018, shows one of the stars of the electronic and indie classical worlds in his element: a homebrewed nest of traditional and modern instruments working together.
Four nights onstage in Berlin in 2018 are the subject of Nils Frahm's new concert film and soundtrack album, <em>Tripping With Nils Frahm</em>.

In the new concert film Tripping with Nils Frahm, directed by Benoit Toulemonde, a small figure in a t-shirt and flat cap bounces around a Berlin stage — playing pianos and towering analog synthesizers, flipping switches, turning knobs and massaging keyboards in front of rapt audiences.

German composer creates songs that fuse electronic and classical music. He's one of the stars of a

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