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Zeuhl is a sub-genre of progressive music started by the French band, Magma.Wiki says this - Zeuhl means 'celestial' in Kobaïan, the constructed language created by Christian Vander. Originally solely applied to the music of Vander's band, Magma, the term zeuhl was eventually used to describe the similar music produced by French bands, beginning in the mid-1970s. Although primarily a French phenomenon, zeuhl has influenced recent avant-garde Japanese bands.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. Zeuhl shares much in common with the Rock in Opposition movement, and many bands have participated in RIO festivals.A review of Magma's 2004 KA says this -[Z]euhl sounds like, well, about 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 lapses into eerie, minimalist trance-rock.Basically, it is progressive music (mostley French) that is on the more avant-garde side. But without the obvious dissonance of some of the more extreme avant-garde prog bands (Universe Zero, The Thinking Plague, Art Bears, Motor Totmemist Guild).Other bands that fall into the Zeuhl sub-genre are: Eskaton, Dun, Zao (a jazz version of the genre), Shub Niggurath, Corima, Bondage Fruit, Ruins, One Shot (fusion meets Zeuhl).
Magma ....Full Concert Video
Zeuhl is a sub-genre of progressive music started by the French band, Magma.
I'm old school. Have dial up connection on my computer and can get no reliable cell phone signal at home. Because of this I don' have access to UTube or Pandora. For Christmas my wife gave me a subscription to the British music magazine Q. From it I learned that 2 of my favorite groups, Suede and The Godfathers have new Cd's. Also read about a new group The Palma Violets which led me to order them too. I think this gift is going to cost me alot of money! The magazine is full of reviews from different genres. Alot more than Rolling Stone.
Pandora is my main source for discovering new music, although YouTube is a close second. The "AI" of how it presents new music based on your likes isn't as good as Pandora, but it's decent. The best part, is that you can make playlists that follow you wherever you have internet access. Another good thing about YouTube is the ability to share music with other people.For example, >> HERE << is my YouTube concert playlist.There are a couple dozen full length concerts that you can see and hear, most are pretty good quality, some are extremely good quality.Another good source of good music are friends that know your tastes. Nothing better than a buddy sending you an email with a new artist. Chances are you're going to like them, because it was sent by somebody that knows your tastes.Bob
I subscribed to your channel, nice one.
Great idea for a thread!One of the problems I have as a jazz fan is that I get into a rut of listening to the classics: Monk, Miles, 'Trane, etc., and am generally not familiar with the new artists out there. I have two shows on wrti.org internet radio that I like to listen to for finding out about new artists, both hosted by a guy named Jeff Duperon. They are called "Jazz with Jeff Duperon" and "Straight Ahead". The times given for those shows are U.S. Eastern Standard Time. Jeff is an old-style DJ who actually talks about the music and the artists, and he emphasizes new artists. It's very clear when you listen to him that he really loves what he does.On the downside, the steam is 64k, so sound quality is poor, and they don't put the artist and song name tags into the stream. I use a laptop as my system controller with the Squeezebox Touch, so I get around the tag issue by just pointing my browser to wrti.org, which displays the artist and song name of the current and previously-played songs. Failing that, it becomes necessary to follow Jeff's commentary, but as I get older, this becomes hit-or-miss. "Was that two songs ago or three?" Haha.My most recent find from listening to Jeff's shows is Together by Anthony Branker. Great artist! He heads up the jazz program at the music school of Princeton University.
Will check that out (the shows and the artist). One thing you might find helpful is using the Shazzam smartphone app (free). It 'listens' to any audio, and then tells you complete info on the source (track, artist, album, etc.). It even works during tv shows, and will tell you all the background tracks etc. in one go. I've used it to identify cool songs I've heard in commercials too. Very powerful tool.
You can try this album as well...they've been around awhile... The Bird & The Bee..
