Kultivator, not Zheul
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Topic: Kultivator, not Zheul
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Subject: Kultivator, not Zheul
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 22:40
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HI GUYS, THIS IS CÉSAR INCA. I've been listening to my Kultivator CD many times during March and a couple of times during April... and I can't seem to find the Zheul thing anywhere. I strongly believe that this amazing band's sound is closer to the most bizarre side of Canterbury and the complexity of old-fashioned jazz-rock fusion in a more subtle array, with some added touches of folkish-like ambiences. It's more jazzy than Zheul, if you ask me, although given the fact that I'm "oficially" a Symphonic Prog specialist... perhaps My opinion is not as solid as I wih it were...  Well, regards.  |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 03:08
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Although technically I would agree with you (and this would be so also for Lagger Blues Machine) , but both those groups are often categotized as Zeuhl in books
And this site apparently chose that road also ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 21:16
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OK, but those books are obviously wrong. There are books in which Nektar appears in a section of Ger5man rock or even krautrock - I beleive in truth over statistics.
Well, anyway... Kind regards & peace!  |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 05:53
I won't move them just yet, feel free to continue the debate.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 10:15
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Mostly, I feel pleased that my fellow reviewre Sean Trane, who IMHO is one of the mos taccomplished and clearest-thinking reviewers ever, agrees with my observation. On the other hand, his new information made me understand why the Zheul stuff was given to Kultivator, something like an "act of routine". All I can say (and I probably won't insist anymore on it) is that the Kultivator album doesn't fit that category at all. Bands like Pochikaite Malka, Zao or Bondage Fruit fit this Zheul category better... just to put a few examples.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 13:13
| It's a hard album to categorise - sort of a blend of RIO, Canterbury and Zeuhl with Swedish folk influences. Great LP, though! |