Obstacle of Affliction
Envokes the styles of Pharoh Sanders and Sun Ra into a post modern maximal drone frenzy.
Favorite track: The Conference Of The Stars - (Cleopatra That Goddess).
CLEOPATRA « THAT GODDESS »
Sister without rival
Most beautiful of all
She looks like
The star-goddess, rising
At the start of the good New Year.
Perfect and bright, shining skin
Seductive in her eyes
When she glances,
Sweet in her lips
When she speaks,
And never a word too many.
Slender neck, shining body,
Her hair is true lapis,
Her arm gathers gold,
Her fingers are like lotus flowers,
Ample behind, tight waist,
Her thighs extend her beauty,
Shapely in stride
When she steps on the earth.
She has stolen my heart
With her embrace,
She has made the neck
Of every man
Turn round
At the sight of her.
Whoever embrace her is happy,
She is like the head of lovers,
And she is seen going outside
Like That Goddess,
The One Goddess.
Seven days to yesterday
That I haven’t seen sister,
And sickness has entered
Deep into me,
I have grown heavy
In my limbs,
My body has lost
Sense of itself.
NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM, a.k.a. NNMM is a community of “cultural engineers” (*Genesis P-Orridge) using sounds, with a variable line-up. This project was initiated by Guillaume Cazalet (CZLT) and the veteran saxophonist player Jean-Jacques Duerinckx (Ze Zorgs) in Brussels (2018), during a residency with and two drummers Sebastien Schmit (K-Branding) and Pierre Arese (AKSU). The result was a bifacial entity, sometimes calling for a primitive voodoo trance with percussive intonations, dominated by rhythm and a savage movement, sometimes towards a psychedelic meditation with prophetic and spiritual accents resting on an amplified drone music where time is explored, harmony, the power of the tonic and its iridescent harmonics, durability, weight, ruin.
From this residency were born a trilogy to come, dedicated to the Sun, the Moon and the Earth and a first album, The Conference Of The Stars, released on the label Homo Sensibilis Records, mixing drone metal and spiritual free jazz, animated by a cosmic and psychedelic energy.
In 2019, Reshma Goolamy (bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Didié Nietzche (48 Cameras, Radio Prague), Joaquin Bermudez (Phoenician Drive) and Alice Thiel (Thot) joined the project that takes the form of an “Opera Drone”. In 2020, Lukas Bouchenot & Stephane Fedele join their forces on drums and turns the music into an heavy psych experience.
By exploring the evolution of the human species, particularly through the use of speculative texts in Homo-sapiens prototypal language (*Pierre Lanchantin), they question the future of the living on earth. They try to create a sense of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a musical and soteriological experience.
Current line-up :
° Guillaume Cazalet (CZLT) : Amplified guitar, vocals.
° Jean Jacques Duerinckx : Amplified barytone sax and sopranino.
° Stephane FDL : Drums & percs.
° Lukas Bouchenot : Drums & percs.
° Reshma Goolamy : Amplified bass.
° Romain Martini : Amplified guitar.
° Didié Nietzsch : Digital soundcapes, spectral.
° Joaquin Bermudez : Amplified Saz & Setar.
° Alice Thiel : Amplified guitar, synth.
° A Thousand Lost Civilisations : black magic, lightening, video.
Other members :
° Sebastien Schmit : Drums, percussions, gongs.
° Pierre Arese : Drums and percussions.
credits
released June 21, 2018
THE CONFERENCE OF THE STARS :
° Sebastien Schmit /// Drums, percussions, gongs (on "K-ANNON")
° Pierre Arese /// Drums, percussions (on "K-ANNON")
° Jean Jacques Duerinckx /// Amplified barytone sax, sax sopranino.
° Guillaume Cazalet CZLT /// Amplified bass and guitar, synth effects, vocals and percussion part on "Goat!"
Recorded by Guillaume Cazalet CZLT, with the help of Jean Jacques Duerinckx at HS63, Brussels, March 2018.
Mixed and Mastered by CZLT at HOMO SENSIBILIS SOUNDS Studio, June 2018.
NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM ° (((NNMM))) trying to create a sense of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a musical and soteriological experience.
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Oranssi Pazuzu, the gods of psych black prog metal!! Many an act attempts to fuse those elements, and very few do it well. OP are and will continue to be the leaders in this style! Ralph Douglas