In the summer of 2020 Volker Pannek, Tim Pannek (father and son) and Franziska Stolze decided to record some songs just for themselves to pass the time of the pandemic in a meaningful way.

The three are connected through various band projects and have a lot of live experience. The goal was to create well structured songs with a high recognition value and to maintain the organic sound of the instruments.

A name for this project was found fast. NEOCRACY, a wordplay for new democracy.

NEOCRACY was a former project of Volker which has released two albums a few years earlier. The drummer for the album was the former drummer of the original band.

In the first place the songs were just written for ourselves because in the current times there should be no illusions about gaining fame or an income in the music business. But in the studio something wonderful happened. Everyone of the three musicians has put so much heart and personal emotions into the songs that they maybe should be presented to a larger audience. Either way we think that music only works through emotions and personal experiences.

The home of the band is Eisdorf, a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

It was a pleasure to have Tim on the Interview to speak on the new album “Who To Blame” and much more on the journey of Neocracy. Check out the complete coverage on the below you tube video.