Zeuhl
Zeuhl (pronounced as [' zoel ] ) is a style of music which was established in the early 1970s by the French band Magma to the classically trained drummer Christian Vander. The genre name is invented by Vander artificial language Kobaïanisch borrowed in the Zeuhl Wortz means as much as the music of the all-encompassing power.
The musical roots of Zeuhl go back on one hand, a pioneer of free jazz movement such as John Coltrane, on the other hand, there are hints and folkloric influences from Carl Orff's work again.
The Zeuhl is determined by several characteristic elements. Especially important is a dominant rhythm section, usually in the form of a pumping bass guitar and a sluggish or flexible aufspielenden drums. Slow repetitive structures that serve the construction of a hypnotic atmosphere, are just as striking as solo passages of great technical finesse. Singing is often widely available and may be made of polyphonic choral settings (see Carl Orff's Carmina Burana ) or solo recited passages exist in a shrill intonation. Zeuhl bands also have not infrequently a solo guitarist. The piano or electric piano usually takes rather a companion function, especially for emphasizing the repetitive pattern.
Representative
Representatives of the genre can be found mainly in France and Japan. It can be said that French bands tend to play in a conventional genre typical frame while quirligere in Japan, finds abgedrehtere game types with additional influences from popular music tends to be. Thus, the Japanese group Ruins has established itself as a subgenus of the Zeuhl - punk.
French bands:
- Art Zoyd
- Fertilizer
- Eider Stellaire
- Eskaton
- Magister Dixit
- Magma
- Neom
- Rhun
- Shub - Niggurath
- Vortex
- Weidorje
- Zao
- Zoïkhem
Japanese bands:
- Amygdala
- Bondage Fruit
- Daimonji
- Shape
- Koenjihyakkei
- Pochakaite Malko
- Ruins
Other bands ( the Zeuhl only partially removed stylistically related ):
- Guapo ( UK )
- Yeti (USA)
- Metabolist ( GB)
- Univers Zero ( Belgium)
- Present (Belgium )
- Corima (USA)