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artist: Neptunian Maximalism
title: Éons
year: 2020
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: I, Voidhanger Records
language: English
rel. date: 2020-06-26
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 02:08:22
size: 320.77MB
rip date: 2025-04-12
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/157503982
tracklist:
1. Daiitoku-Myōō no Ōdaiko 6:13
2. Nganga 8:35
3. Lamasthu 3:59
4. Ptah Sokar Osiris 9:16
5. Magická Džungľa 2:20
6. Enkma Elia 7:10
7. Zâr 7:05
8. Vajrabhairava: The Summoning 6:03
9. Vajrabhairava: The Rising 2:04
10. Vajrabhairava: The Great Wars of Quaternary Era Against Ego 8:35
11. Iadanamada! 5:38
12. Oi Sonuf Vaoresaji! 12:32
13. Eôs 18:32
14. Heka Hou Sia 6:20
15. Heliozoapolis 15:24
16. Khonsou Sokaris 8:36
release notes:
Belgium's NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM (aka NNMM) is a community of "cultural
engineers" with a variable line-up, mixing drone metal with spiritual
free jazz and psychedelic music. The project was initiated in 2018 by
multi-instrumentalist Guillaume Cazalet (Czlt, Jenny Torse, Aksu), who
brought together veteran saxophonist Jean Jacques Duerinckx (Ze Zorgs)
and two drummers, Sebastien Schmit (K-Branding) and Pierre Arese (Aksu).
In 2020, Stephane FDL and Lukas Bouchenot took the drums. Reshma Goolamy
(bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Alice Thiel (synths, guitar), Joaquin
Bermudez (saz, setar), Didié Nietzche (soundscapes) and Leslie V. (black
magic scenography) joined in 2019, thus changing the band into a real
drone orchestra.
By exploring the evolution of the human species, NEPTUNIAN MAXMALISM
question the future of the living on Earth, propitiating a feeling of
acceptance for the conclusion of the so called "anthropocene" era and
preparing us for the incoming "probocene" era, imagining our planet
ruled by superior intelligent elephants after the end of humanity. As
Guillaume Cazalet explains, "for certain scientists, if we hadn't rule
the Earth, elephants were supposed to be at the top of the pyramid of
terrestrial life."
The ambitious album trilogy of "Éons" is a musical experience of
gargantuan proportions where each chapter is part of a fascinating
ritual, a cosmic mass of light and darkness recalling the works of SUNN
O))), EARTH, ALUK TODOLO, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, SWANS, MOTORPSYCHO, SUN
RA and the late JOHN COLTRANE.
The intoxicating bacchanal starts with "To The Earth (Aker Hu Benben)",
a heavy tribal music affair influenced by stoner metal, noise rock and
free jazz. "It's a balance between sacred and profane, and resumes lots
of human feelings or their consequences, such as love, war, hate, ritual
dance, transmutation, strength, feminine/masculine juxtaposition, etc,",
says Cazalet.
With "To The Moon (Heka Khaibit Sekhem)" the band opts for a slightly
different approach, surrealistic yet brutal, occasionally steering
towards black-doom metal. Cazalet: "Here the rhythm section plays an
important role, fueled by an obscure power that plunges the listener
into a magic, occult trance; this album is characterized by shamanic
invocations and summonings of the ancients by using animal-like growls
and the homo-sapiens' proto-language as reconstructed by Pierre
Lanchantin, an English researcher/archeologist from the University of
Cambridge."
The third and final chapter encompasses the interstellar meditations of
"To The Sun (Ânkh Maât Sia)", described by Cazalet as a solar drone
opera: "We worked on the power of frequencies and tonality, chthonian
deep vibrations and iridescent high lights by using huge amplified
baritone sax and guitars, spectral soundscapes, antic cinematographic
views and tribal percussions."
Wrapped in a phantasmagoric painting by Japanese master Kaneko Tomiyuki,
NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM's "Éons" is with no doubt the quintessential
mystical and psychedelic journey of 2020.