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    Posted: December 28 2009 at 21:43

Hey guys, I'm a huge fan of rock music and although I have a pretty good knowledge of prog overall, Zeuhl is a genre which I am new to. Could anybody help me find a good place to start? Cheers.
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Magma.

Specifically K.A.

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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Magma.

Specifically K.A.

/thread.
 
For some reason, the suggestion of Magma for a zeuhl recommendations thread strikes me as hilarious.
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I'll suggest Magma's Kobaia, 1001 Degrees Centrigrade, Weidorje ,or Zao as good places to start (but it depends on taste).  I like most everything in Zeuhl.
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 22:03
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I'll suggest Magma's Kobaia, 1001 Degrees Centrigrade, Weidorje ,or Zao as good places to start (but it depends on taste).  I like most everything in Zeuhl.
 
I haven't heard K.A, but Kobaia and 1001 Degrees Centrigrade are indeed good places to start if you know that what you're expecting is the unexpected.
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Points: 7037 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 22:05
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Magma.

Specifically K.A.

/thread.


This or Kobaia.
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Oh! I remember Kobaia from the mp3 stream on this site, it rocked!
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Points: 35693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 22:16
Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I'll suggest Magma's Kobaia, 1001 Degrees Centrigrade, Weidorje ,or Zao as good places to start (but it depends on taste).  I like most everything in Zeuhl.
 
I haven't heard K.A, but Kobaia and 1001 Degrees Centrigrade are indeed good places to start if you know that what you're expecting is the unexpected.


Not only are those particular favourite Magma albums of mine, but I was also influenced by the nick in those choices -- FusionKing.  Those are good jazzy albums.  Zao also has some really good jazzy music (I tend to like the début best but would rather recommend Osiris and the following albums), and Weidorje's is an awesome album (if you like that, check out Paga even though it's not all good).  Dun's Eros and Eskaton's Four Visions are a couple of albums that helped get me into Zeuhl, and Shub-Niggurath is a particular favourite in the category -- excellent, but more avant chamber rock.  The Japanese scene is great too, but you might want to hold off on that for a little while.  Still, you might want to try Happy Family or Bondage Fruit (though I love Koenjhyakkei, I don't known that I'd recommend that to start).


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Originally posted by FusionKing FusionKing wrote:

Oh! I remember Kobaia from the mp3 stream on this site, it rocked!


Good.  I will join in the chorus that you should get the first two Magma albums and go from there.
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Ignore Zeuhl.  Buy Kansas.

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Ignore Zeuhl.  Buy Kansas: Epignosis

You don't have to, 'cause I already love Kansas! Tongue
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Originally posted by FusionKing FusionKing wrote:

Ignore Zeuhl.  Buy Kansas: Epignosis

You don't have to, 'cause I already love Kansas! Tongue


If you like Kansas (I'm thinking of Robbie Steinhardt on violin) then you might appreciate Didier Lockwood's violin work: Zao (as I suggested earlier) has him on Kawana (and on Zao -Live, but I don't have it), but good violin work by others such as Jean-Yves Rigaud on the first three albums.  And consider getting the great live album by Magma, Live/Hhai which also features Lockwood, and he's also on the great Retropsekttw I-2 which has my favourite version of Magma's MDK.
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Points: 1698 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2009 at 00:28
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Ignore Zeuhl.  Buy Kansas.

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You're a Kansas fan? I had no idea!

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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Ignore Zeuhl.  Buy Kansas.

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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I'll suggest Magma's Kobaia, 1001 Degrees Centrigrade, Weidorje ,or Zao as good places to start (but it depends on taste).  I like most everything in Zeuhl.
These are very good suggestions.  I would have put Kobaia last instead of first on this list, but I whole-heartedly recommend this approach.  Try out later Magma once you've sampled these first.
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2009 at 11:51
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Ignore Zeuhl.  Buy Kansas.

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Ignore Zeuhl. Ignore Kansas.

Buy Anal c**t.
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Points: 8321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2009 at 12:01
Start with Eskaton's 4 Visions. Big smile
Better start than everything named before. I adore Magma, but Eskaton is far more accessible.
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Eskaton's 4 Visions is an album that helped me really get into Zeuhl.  Though that's the Eskaton album to start with, Eskaton's other albums are very good too (I really like Ardeur).  Although the Eskaton (and Autopsie) offshoot band Musique Noise seems like an attempt to me to make Eskaton-type music really accessible, Fulmines Regularis is best avoided (I quite like it, but it has the reputation as one of the bad albums in the Zeuhl world, along with Magma's Merci, which I also like, and Troll Vol. II which I find, at least partially, very enjoyable).

Incidentally, I discovered Eakaton (Zeuhl) and Picchio dal Pozzo (Italian Canterbury) at the same time and both had a big effect on me.
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