{"id":135,"date":"2016-09-21T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/?p=135"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:44:08","slug":"eclipsed-rock-magazine-history-book-1986-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2016\/09\/21\/eclipsed-rock-magazine-history-book-1986-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipsed Rock magazine: \u201cHistory Book\u201d (1986 \u2013 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nNorbert Kr\u00fcler, 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 musical journey of Kr\u00fcler, who has made his way from a self-taught fan to a one-man adventurer in spacey prog.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEach CD covers two to four original albums. Shamall&#8217;s development can be traced well this way. From sounds still strongly influenced by the late eighties from the Enigma passage to rattling, massive electronics with a strong anthemic character to the more Floyd-like sound that one knows from him most recently. Not all of it convinces to this day, but &#8220;History Book&#8221; is still a worthwhile star ride.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCD 5 then brings some new material that was left over from the last studio album, &#8220;Turn Off&#8221;\u2014also available as a single CD under the title &#8220;Continuation&#8221; (which is a very good purchase decision). The balancing act between spherical passages and powerful driving guitar and synth solos works especially well here (similar to Maxxess). Also, Oldfield-like elements can be found here and enrich this immensely dynamic cosmos\u2026.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nc\/o Eclipsed Rock Magazine, Walter Sehrer, September 2016\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/B5kEByE30Iw<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shamall\u2014Caligula 2009 (History Book edition)<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Kr\u00fcler, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[91,94,92,32,95,93,96,97,51,98,46,99,100,101],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-30-years-of-shamall","tag-anniversary-edition","tag-continuation","tag-electronic-music","tag-electronics","tag-history-book","tag-maxxess","tag-oldfield-like","tag-prog","tag-retrospective","tag-shamall","tag-space-rock","tag-spacey-prog","tag-turn-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}