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Review of Schizophrenia from „Strutter’zine“ (8,5 / 10)
c/o Gabor Kleinbloesem, Strutter’zine, NL The German band SHAMALL has a long history, but in short it learns that it started in the early 1970s when a young NORBERT KRÜLER began listening to the records of LED ZEPPELIN, JIMI HENDRIX, PINK FLOYD and those of German Krautrockbands. He started training to learn and play the…
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“Surprise of the month: Shamall – Schizophrenia!” – Rock City (13 / 15)
c/o Rock City Magazine, Bremen In times like these (streams, poor CD sales, hardly any loyalty to the bands – except in Hard Rock / Heavy Metal) “Value for Money” is particularly important.The fans should get real pleasure from the product CD. With the new double album by Shamall the package is extremely impressive: double-folding…
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Interview with Rock City, issue 238:
Rock City: Tell our readers in a short summary about the band history of Shamall!Norbert: 40 years of DJing at the Aladin in Bremen – of course that leaves traces! In short words, you could say that in 1984 my first musical synthesizer experiments started – at that time the project was still nameless. Even…
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“…A captivating journey through a variety of musical styles…”
c/o Sluchacz, Akademia Art Rocka (PL) The German progressive rock is not very popular in our country. However, it turns out that sometimes it is worth looking for it. Recently, one of my friends recommended the latest album by Shamall to me, with the title “Schizophrenia”. The band name didn’t tell me much, although Norbert…
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“…Clearly Kruler’s strengths are in his arrangements…”
c/o Andrew Cottrell, Background Magazine, NL Shamall is the pseudonym used by German DJ, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Norbert Kruler who released his first work in the late 1980s, influenced by Krautrock as well as mainstream electronic music, although over time he has been more heavily influenced by the progressive music scene and has incorporated a…
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Progwereld: “Shamall – Schizophrenia”
c/o Progwereld, Dick van der Heijde Norbert Krüler was born in Emsdetten on 6 December 1957. But if you look at Wikipedia, you won’t find him among the famous citizens of Emsdetten and that’s definitely wrong. Krüler is not only a highly talented multi-instrumentalist, with keyboards as his main instrument, he can also compose and…
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“This album is a real musical patchwork that summarizes 4 decades of progressive rock”
c/o Tiro from Prog Censor “Shamall – Schizophrenia”: Prog/Electro/Rock/Classic: 77’01 / 73’27, Germany ’19. I have to tell you right at the beginning that Shamall, despite his career of over 35 years, has disappeared under my radar. And so I find it difficult to discuss this album with a nostalgic view on it. It’s even…
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Eclipsed Magazine – “We Are All No Angels”
Interview with Norbert Krüler “We are all no angels”.Shamall traces the ecological inconsistencies of our actions.By Walter Sehrer Norbert Krüler, aka Shamall, had gathered enough anger in addition to creative abundance to present a new double CD concept album to mankind. On “Schizophrenia” he deals with all kinds of self-tormenting thoughts: “The whole album is…
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ProfilProg: Review of Shamall – Schizophrenia
c/o Profil Prog Magazine and Radio, Philippe André, December 2019translated from French 1986 — 2019. No, no, don’t worry, it’s nobody’s epitaph !!!!These are just the dates of Norbert KRUELER’s current musical career as a creator of the so-called “progressive” music. This man has been composing this kind of music for 33 years now –…
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Aller Weser Publishing House: “A record is like a long journey”.
New double CD by “Shamall” has been released / Videos on YouTube Natural phenomena like wind, rain or maybe a little stardust at the beginning of a piece of music are not uncommon. Probably the most famous example is “Riders on the storm” by the Doors, in whose opening sequence thunder and lightning compete for…