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    Posted: April 05 2006 at 10:43
Checking out the Swiss band Island, discovered they had been labelled Zeuhl - even though Prog Lucky makes reference to them being influenced by Van Der Graaf (no disagreement there) and Canterbury. Surely a fair degree of ambiguity in the genre allocation????
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Points: 2818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2006 at 13:39
if memory serves me well, Sean Trane suggested that we would move them to Zeuhl at some point. I don't know the band myself, unfortunately, but you might want to contact Sean, and ask for his opinion about the subject.
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Points: 20442 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2006 at 05:41

Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

if memory serves me well, Sean Trane suggested that we would move them to Zeuhl at some point. I don't know the band myself, unfortunately, but you might want to contact Sean, and ask for his opinion about the subject.

Well the main source of influences to Island is definitely Magma, IMHO, but I will check again tonight
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 20442 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2006 at 09:46

OK after I relistened to the album,

in order of influences

  1. Magma and associated groups
  2. Unvivers Zero (in their more Zeuhl moments)
  3. VDGG on the fourth track of the album only, IMHO

 

 

>>>>> So I cinfirm that Island is best in Zeuhl
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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