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

Shamall – the official pages

Tag: Progressive Rock

  • 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…

  • “…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…

  • “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…

  • 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 –…

  • Prog Critique: “…very appealing in terms of mixes and arrangements …”

    The composer and multi-instrumentalist Norbert Krüler and his companions Matthias Mehrtens and Anke Ullrich present a gigantic 22-track album. This opulence of compositions is disarming at first glance, and it is necessary to dive into this double work in order to grasp not only its message, but also all the musical nuances contained in “Schizophrenia”.…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…