Zeuhl music

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Mon, 03/16/2015 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Zeuhl and Magma
Tonight on ADN, in preparation of the great French band Magma coming to Portland in early April, we will listen to ZEUHL.  Zeuhl means celestial in Kobaian, the language invented by Christian Vander, founder of Magma.  Originally applied to the music of Magma at the dawn of the 1970s, by the middle of that decade many other French bands like Eskaton, Shub-Niggurath, and Weidorje begain playing in this style. 

 More recently, Zeuhl style can be found in the Japanese avant rock scene with groups like Ruins and Bondage Fruit, who take the music to a whole new level. .

According to the wiki:
"The Zeuhl typically blends progressive rock, symphonic rock, fusion, neoclassicism, avant rock and vocal elements of African-American spirituals and Western  military call-and-response. Common aspects include dissonance, marching themes, throbbing bass, keyboards including piano, Rhodes piano, or organ, and brass instruments." 

From Pitchfork:     "Zeuhl sounds like, well, what you'd expect an alien rock opera to sound like: massed, chanted choral motifs, martial, repetitive percussion, sudden bursts of explosive improv, and just as unexpected laspses into eerie, minimalist trance-rock."      

Tonight we will get a full taste of Zeuhl from it's beginnings with Magma to the later followers from both France and Japan. Hosted by Rolf.  


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