{"id":46,"date":"2025-05-18T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:57:48","slug":"reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/reviews\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200;\" class=\"wp-block-post-template has-small-font-size has-ibm-plex-sans-condensed-font-family is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-375 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-allgemein\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2026\/04\/28\/new-album-of-shamall-the-funeral-of-empathy-is-scheduled-for-december-2026\/\" target=\"_self\" >New album of Shamall &#8211; &#8220;The Funeral of Empathy&#8221; is scheduled for December 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Following the internationally successful double album \u201cSchizophrenia,\u201d another highlight is planned for the end of the year. If all goes according to plan, a new album by Shamall titled \u201cThe Funeral of Empathy\u201d is set to be released in late 2026 or early 2027. A front cover and a back cover have already been unveiled.&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-28T00:51:00+02:00\">28. April 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-93 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-80s-new-age tag-80s-wave tag-anke-ullrich tag-can tag-electronic-music tag-eloy tag-grobschnitt tag-high-quality-music tag-klaus-schulze tag-krautrock tag-matthias-mehrtens tag-norbert-kruler tag-pink-floyd tag-porcupine-tree tag-proggy tag-proggy-guitars tag-progressive-rock tag-review tag-shamall tag-synth tag-synthwave tag-tangerine-dream\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/12\/20\/review-of-schizophrenia-from-strutterzine-85-10\/\" target=\"_self\" >Review of Schizophrenia from \u201eStrutter\u2019zine\u201c (8,5 \/ 10)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">c\/o Gabor Kleinbloesem, Strutter&#8217;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 KR\u00dcLER 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&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-12-20T01:31:30+01:00\">20. December 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-97 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-krautrock tag-perfectly-produced tag-prog tag-reference-song tag-shamall tag-streetmark\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/09\/29\/surprise-of-the-month-shamall-schizophrenia-rock-city-13-15\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201cSurprise of the month: Shamall \u2013 Schizophrenia!\u201d \u2013 Rock City (13 \/ 15)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">c\/o Rock City Magazine, Bremen In times like these (streams, poor CD sales, hardly any loyalty to the bands\u2014except in hard rock\/heavy metal), &#8220;value for money&#8221; 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: a double-folding digipak, a&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-09-29T12:53:04+02:00\">29. September 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-99 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-interviews tag-anke-ullrich tag-cinematic-rock tag-interview tag-matthias-mehrtens tag-rock-city tag-shamall\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/09\/13\/interview-with-rock-city-issue-238\/\" target=\"_self\" >Interview with Rock City, issue 238:<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">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\u2014of course that leaves traces! In short words, you could say that in 1984 my first musical synthesizer experiments started\u2014at that time the project was still nameless. Even before I became&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-09-13T02:37:03+02:00\">13. September 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-101 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-artrock tag-classical-orchestra tag-electronic-music tag-guitar tag-keyboards tag-krautrock tag-shamall\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/07\/05\/a-captivating-journey-through-a-variety-of-musical-styles\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201c\u2026A captivating journey through a variety of musical styles\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">c\/o Sluchacz, Akademia Art Rocka (PL) 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 &#8220;Schizophrenia.&#8221; The band name didn&#8217;t tell me much, although Norbert Kr\u00fcler,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-07-05T11:08:24+02:00\">5. July 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-103 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-berlin-school tag-pink-floyd tag-progressive-rock tag-wish-you-were-here\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/06\/01\/clearly-krulers-strengths-are-in-his-arrangements\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201c\u2026Clearly Kruler\u2019s strengths are in his arrangements\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">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&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-06-01T12:14:33+02:00\">1. June 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-108 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-atmosphere tag-dick-van-der-heijde tag-excellent-guitar-solo tag-monumentalism tag-much-musicality-in-every-song tag-progwereld\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/02\/22\/progwereld-shamall-schizophrenia\/\" target=\"_self\" >Progwereld: \u201cShamall \u2013 Schizophrenia\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">c\/o Progwereld, Dick van der Heijde Norbert Kr\u00fcler was born in Emsdetten on 6 December 1957. But if you look at Wikipedia, you won&#8217;t find him among the famous citizens of Emsdetten, and that&#8217;s definitely wrong. Kr\u00fcler is not only a highly talented multi-instrumentalist, with keyboards as his main instrument; he can also compose and&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-02-22T11:32:34+01:00\">22. February 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-118 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-4-decades-of-prog-rock tag-electro tag-progressive-rock tag-shamall tag-tangerine-dream\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/02\/11\/this-album-is-a-real-musical-patchwork-that-summarizes-4-decades-of-progressive-rock\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201cThis album is a real musical patchwork that summarizes 4 decades of progressive rock\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">c\/o Tiro from Prog Censor &#8220;Shamall\u2014Schizophrenia&#8221;: Prog\/Electro\/Rock\/Classic: 77&#8217;01 \/ 73&#8217;27, Germany &#8217;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&#8217;s even more difficult&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-02-11T12:28:11+01:00\">11. February 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-121 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-interviews tag-bombastic tag-cinematic-rock tag-dark tag-eclipsed tag-floydy tag-interview tag-schizophrenia tag-shamall tag-spacey\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/02\/06\/eclipsed-magazine-we-are-all-no-angels\/\" target=\"_self\" >Eclipsed Magazine \u2013 \u201cWe Are All No Angels\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Interview with Norbert Kr\u00fcler: &#8220;We are all no angels.&#8221; Shamall traces the ecological inconsistencies of our actions. By Walter Sehrer Norbert Kr\u00fcler, aka Shamall, had gathered enough anger in addition to creative abundance to present a new double CD concept album to mankind. On &#8220;Schizophrenia,&#8221; he deals with all kinds of self-tormenting thoughts: &#8220;The whole&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-02-06T01:46:02+01:00\">6. February 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-125 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-anke-ullrich tag-matthias-mehrtens tag-shamall\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2019\/12\/15\/aller-weser-publishing-house-a-record-is-like-a-long-journey\/\" target=\"_self\" >Aller Weser Publishing House: \u201cA record is like a long journey\u201d.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4bce4689cee35ef0664876ec76f33ce0 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-contrast-color has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A new double CD by &#8220;Shamall&#8221; 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 &#8220;Riders on the Storm&#8221; by the Doors, in whose opening sequence thunder and lightning compete&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2019-12-15T09:08:26+01:00\">15. December 2019<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-375 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-allgemein\">\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-93 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-80s-new-age tag-80s-wave tag-anke-ullrich tag-can tag-electronic-music tag-eloy tag-grobschnitt tag-high-quality-music tag-klaus-schulze tag-krautrock tag-matthias-mehrtens tag-norbert-kruler tag-pink-floyd tag-porcupine-tree tag-proggy tag-proggy-guitars tag-progressive-rock tag-review tag-shamall tag-synth tag-synthwave tag-tangerine-dream\">\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-97 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reviews tag-krautrock tag-perfectly-produced tag-prog tag-reference-song tag-shamall tag-streetmark\">\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}