Shamall – the official pages

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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 Krautrock bands. He started training to learn and play…

  • Eclipsed Rock Magazin: “One of his most exciting works…”

    Norbert Krüler, alias Shamall, doesn’t do it under a double album. This time he deals with the shoals of the human mind, from mental illness to uncomfortable truths and agonizing self-discovery. Musically, he spans exactly the same cosmos as always, namely Floydian sceneries, equipped with strong electronic means but also hard guitars, but he succeeds…

  • 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 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 think…