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Cover picture of Norbert Krueler aka Shamall from his latest release "Schizophrenia"

Shamall – the official pages

Category: Reviews

  • Music Circus Magazine: Shamall – Schizophrenia (2019)

    by Stephan Schelle, Music Circus Magazine, November 2019 Norbert Krüler aka Shamall has been making music for more than 30 years. Starting out as a DJ, he began releasing electronic music under the pseudonym Shamall in 1989. Then in the early 2000s, Shamall switched to progressive/art rock because he felt he was repeating himself musically.…

  • Eclipsed Rock magazine: “History Book” (1986 – 2016)

    Norbert Krüler aka Shamall has created his own niche between prog, space rock and electronics in almost three decades. Time for a great retrospective of his work. The artwork and presentation of the 5CD box are outstanding, because each of the CDs has its own spacey-meditative cover. In the booklet you can also discover the…

  • Babyblue Pages: “…Versatile Spaceprog…”

    …and another excerpt of a review from the babyblue pages: “….Musically, “Turn Off” features spacey versions of neoprog, hard rock, prog metal and art rock throughout. It is quite contrasting how the music can change between soft keyboard clouds and slamming drums to howling guitars. It also shows the numerous possibilities that the compounds between…

  • Eclipsed Rock Magazine: Shamall – Turn Off (8/10)

    c/o 2014 Eclipsed Rock Magazine, Walter Sehrer Norbert Krüler aka Shamall has stayed true to his very own style with his new double album. This becomes clear right at the beginning, where he marries acoustic guitar with typical Floyd keyboards in a wonderfully spherical way. In addition, machine-like sequencers rattle. Memories of “Wish you were…

  • Music Circus Magazine: Shamall – Turn Off (review)

    by Stephan Schelle, music circus magazine Shamall, that is the multi-instrumentalist Norbert Krüler. For a more than 27 years he has been releasing his music, which is a mixture of melodic, progressive, art, krautrock and electronic. Aiming at the fact that his last work “Is this human behavior” was released back in 2009, one might…

  • Eclipsed Rock Magazine: “Shamall – Questions of Life” (2008)

    related: Pink Floyd, Maxxess, Alan Parsons, KrautrockReview by Walter Sehrer The album “questions of life” is already the eleventh studio album from Norbert Krueler alias Shamall. The german musician and dj is exploring the cosmic sound universe, accompanied with rapid Floyd guitar and vibrant electronic sounds and inspired by thousands of unsolved mysteries of life…

  • Music Circus Magazine: Shamall – Questions of Life (2008)

    c/o Stephan Schelle, music circus magazine, 2008 The musical style of Shamall alias Norbert Krueler has evolved from italo disco in the eighties across ambient electronic music in the nineties and changed once more to melodic progressive rock with lots of psychedelic elements according to Pink Floyd and the german progressive band Eloy. With the…