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Fin de siecle (album)

live album by Closterkeller

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ5449328 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fin de siecle is the second live album by Polish gothic rock band Closterkeller. It was released on February 29, 2000 in Poland through Polskie Radio. The album was recorded in October 1999 at Program 3 Polskiego Radia studio, Warsaw. The cover art was created by Anja Orthodox and Marti Pietraszkiewicz with photos by Dariusz Kawka and Anja Orthodox.

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“Fin de siecle (album)” enters the record as live album by Closterkeller. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what siecle, album and live can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its strongest next move is a source search built around siecle, album and live.
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Why this record matters

“Fin de siecle (album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, siecle, album and live provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5449328. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fin de siecle (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.