巫唱片推薦：比利時黑暗爵士/迷幻金屬樂隊Neptunian Maximalism概念專輯《Éons》

飽受好評的比利時多人音樂團體Neptunian Maximalism的首張正式專輯，你可以找到東方和西方音樂的交融：迷幻、長音、金屬、氛圍、自由爵士、部落音樂、儀式感、宇宙、神性，等等等等，用各種標簽，怎麽形容都不為過。這是一張異常精彩的專輯，從音樂到視覺設計，又黑又飛，一場有著強烈原始驅動力的聽覺之旅，是一份完整的概念專輯。雖然不是巫唱片自己的出品，但是這張專輯傳達了巫唱片一直以來想要表現的藝術審美。到目前為止，是2020年我個人年度最佳，強烈推薦。

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Bandcamp樂評摘錄：

"This is like if Swans, John Coltrane and SUNN O))) had an orgy and this is what came out after nine months. My AOTY so far."

- Brainbox

"This is one hell of a release,I have been listening to it all week. Massively ambitious, the sort of release you could imagine been called over indulgent in the 1970s. Imagine Taj Mahal Travellers meets Space Ritual Hawkwind meets Caspar Brotzman meets 16-17. Forget the comparisons and just listen. This is along with Whalesongs Radiance of a Thousand Suns my favorite albums. Awesome."

- Michael Carter

"A mutant blend that is difficult to pin down, but that exists in an ethereal realm somewhere in between post-rock, post-metal, free jazz, psychedelia, and avant-garde. It's incredibly percussive at points, with an 'everything but the kitchen sink' approach that draws from tribal world music, motorik krautrock metronomy, and mathy jazz shuffles, but also has plenty of melodies, which morph into huge, monstrous lurches, like a beast rising sluggishly from deep slumber..."

- PannionSeer

I, Voidhanger Records 官方介紹：

Belgium's NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM (aka NNMM) is a community of “cultural engineers” with a variable line-up, mixing drone metal with spiritual free jazz and psychedelic music. The project was initiated in 2018 by multi-instrumentalist Guillaume Cazalet (Czlt, Jenny Torse, Aksu), who brought together veteran saxophonist Jean Jacques Duerinckx (Ze Zorgs) and two drummers, Sebastien Schmit (K-Branding) and Pierre Arese (Aksu). In 2020, Stephane FDL and Lukas Bouchenot took the drums. Reshma Goolamy (bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Alice Thiel (synths, guitar), Joaquin Bermudez (saz, setar), Didié Nietzche (soundscapes) and Leslie V. (black magic scenography) joined in 2019, thus changing the band into a real drone orchestra.

By exploring the evolution of the human species, NEPTUNIAN MAXMALISM question the future of the living on Earth, propitiating a feeling of acceptance for the conclusion of the so called "anthropocene" era and preparing us for the incoming “probocene” era, imagining our planet ruled by superior intelligent elephants after the end of humanity. As Guillaume Cazalet explains, “for certain scientists, if we hadn't rule the Earth, elephants were supposed to be at the top of the pyramid of terrestrial life.”

The ambitious album trilogy of “Éons” is a musical experience of gargantuan proportions where each chapter is part of a fascinating ritual, a cosmic mass of light and darkness recalling the works of SUNN O))), EARTH, ALUK TODOLO, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, SWANS, MOTORPSYCHO, SUN RA and the late JOHN COLTRANE.

The intoxicating bacchanal starts with “To The Earth (Aker Hu Benben)”, a heavy tribal music affair influenced by stoner metal, noise rock and free jazz. “It's a balance between sacred and profane, and resumes lots of human feelings or their consequences, such as love, war, hate, ritual dance, transmutation, strength, feminine/masculine juxtaposition, etc,”, says Cazalet.

With “To The Moon (Heka Khaibit Sekhem)” the band opts for a slightly different approach, surrealistic yet brutal, occasionally steering towards black-doom metal. Cazalet: “Here the rhythm section plays an important role, fueled by an obscure power that plunges the listener into a magic, occult trance; this album is characterized by shamanic invocations and summonings of the ancients by using animal-like growls and the homo-sapiens' proto-language as reconstructed by Pierre Lanchantin, an English researcher/archeologist from the University of Cambridge.”

The third and final chapter encompasses the interstellar meditations of “To The Sun (Ânkh Maât Sia)”, described by Cazalet as a solar drone opera: “We worked on the power of frequencies and tonality, chthonian deep vibrations and iridescent high lights by using huge amplified baritone sax and guitars, spectral soundscapes, antic cinematographic views and tribal percussions.”

Wrapped in a phantasmagoric painting by Japanese master Kaneko Tomiyuki, NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM's “Éons” is with no doubt the quintessential mystical and psychedelic journey of 2020.

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