shub-niggurath

shub-niggurath

Track Listings
1. Glaciations
2. Ocean
3. Prométhée
4. D'Un Seul Et Même Souffle
5. La Nef Des Fous
6. Contrincante
7. C'Etaient De Très Grands Vents

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Unclassifiable and with boundless originality, SHUB-NIGGURATH blends influences of MAGMA, ART ZOYD, UNIVERS ZERO and KING CRIMSON with echoes of PENDERECKI. From this unique alchemy comes a feverish, violent, intense and dark music in which the listener can sometimes hear anguished female vocals and a Robert FRIPP-like guitar. The relatively classical instruments used (Harmonium, guitar, bass, drums & trombone) blend with strange metal sheets sounds when those are either hit or scraped. Reissued by the label Gazul, the first album "Les Morts Vont Vite" (1986) is now considered a timeless classic. Issued five years later, "C'Etaient De Grands Vents" was recorded by a band reduced to four members only. At this occasion, the line-up from Paris had gone even further into dissonance and contemporary music, abandoning thus all rhythmic patterns and harmonies. "Testament" (2003) is the last musical testimony by SHUB-NIGGURATH. The musicians decided to issue those last compositions as a tribute to one of them, recently deceased. Here are then ten tracks that can be classified among the most radical and daring as far as experimenting is concerned. The proof will have been made, one ast time, that SHUB-NIGGURATH was indeed a major band in contemporary music.

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C'Etaient De Tres Grands Vents
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    1. Testament

    ASIN: B0000CDUTT
    Release Date: 2003-08-29

    Tracks:

    1. Glaciations
    2. Ocean
    3. Prom
    4. D'Un Seul Et M Souffle
    5. La Nef Des Fous
    6. Contrincante
    7. C'Etaient De TrGrands Vents

    Album Description

    Unclassifiable and with boundless originality, SHUB-NIGGURATH blends influences of MAGMA, ART ZOYD, UNIVERS ZERO and KING CRIMSON with echoes of PENDERECKI. From this unique alchemy comes a feverish, violent, intense and dark music in which the listener can sometimes hear anguished female vocals and a Robert FRIPP-like guitar. The relatively classical instruments used (Harmonium, guitar, bass, drums & trombone) blend with strange metal sheets sounds when those are either hit or scraped. Reissued by the label Gazul, the first album "Les Morts Vont Vite" (1986) is now considered a timeless classic. Issued five years later, "C'Etaient De Grands Vents" was recorded by a band reduced to four members only. At this occasion, the line-up from Paris had gone even further into dissonance and contemporary music, abandoning thus all rhythmic patterns and harmonies. "Testament" (2003) is the last musical testimony by SHUB-NIGGURATH. The musicians decided to issue those last compositions as a tribute to one of them, recently deceased. Here are then ten tracks that can be classified among the most radical and daring as far as experimenting is concerned. The proof will have been made, one ast time, that SHUB-NIGGURATH was indeed a major band in contemporary music.
    Testament
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Don't expect another "Les Morts Vont Vite".
    • A Band with Dark Intent Indeed!
    • Not quite what I was hoping for.
    • Shub-Niggurath - 'Testament' (Gazul/Musea)
    		 Testament

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    1. C'Etaient De Tres Grands Vents

    ASIN: B0000BZFQ6
    Release Date: 2003-08-06

    Album Description

    Unclassifiable and with boundless originality, SHUB-NIGGURATH blends influences of MAGMA, ART ZOYD, UNIVERS ZERO and KING CRIMSON with echoes of PENDERECKI. From this unique alchemy comes a feverish, violent, intense and dark music in which the listener can sometimes hear anguished female vocals and a Robert FRIPP-like guitar. The relatively classical instruments used (Harmonium, guitar, bass, drums & trombone) blend with strange metal sheets sounds when those are either hit or scraped. Reissued by the label Gazul, the first album "Les Morts Vont Vite" (1986) is now considered a timeless classic. Issued five years later, "C'Etaient De Grands Vents" was recorded by a band reduced to four members only. At this occasion, the line-up from Paris had gone even further into dissonance and contemporary music, abandoning thus all rhythmic patterns and harmonies. "Testament" (2003) is the last musical testimony by SHUB-NIGGURATH. The musicians decided to issue those last compositions as a tribute to one of them, recently deceased. Here are then ten tracks that can be classified among the most radical and daring as far as experimenting is concerned. The proof will have been made, one ast time, that SHUB-NIGGURATH was indeed a major band in contemporary music.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Don't expect another "Les Morts Vont Vite"........2005-12-04

    This is very different from Les Morts Vont Vite, and may be a bit of a shock in comparison. Whereas their first album is comparable (distantly) to Magma, this is in the same realm as King Crimson's Thrakattak. Compare Thrakattak with Red and you have roughly the same relation as between Testament and Les Morts Vont Vite. Arc fills the same position in Neil Young's discography. The gist being, this is noisy, inchoate, improvised. I like it, but then again I also like Arc and Thrakattak.

    Were I to rank Shub Niggurath's albums, I would have Les Morts Vont Vite first, Testament a close and somewhat incomparable second, and the album that came between--C'etaient de Très Grands Vents--a more distant third. C'etaient de Très Grands Vents occupies a stylistic middle ground between the other two but achieves the grandeur of neither; get it if you love the other two and want more.

    5 out of 5 stars A Band with Dark Intent Indeed!.......2005-10-14

    Their name is in homage to H. P. Lovecraft's fictional goat-like monstrosity, she who lives under the deep, "with her thousand young." This band is truly incredible. Along with Art Zoyd, the best music in the rock era to ever come out of France. But the intensity here is darker, at times really frightening (try listening with the lights out). For all its dissonance, I find this does not hurt my ears. Besides some sporadic pieces by M. Gira, it's simply the evilest s*** I've ever heard, and I have over 2,500 CDs. And there's a movement here not on the other two albums -- a frenzied clattering toward the inevitable, which begins to feel like something worse than hell. Also a sense that they've by now managed to arouse the hideous beast from its "rest" and are paying for it. Mind you, no words are here, to make things corny; it's the music that speaks the unspeakable. It succeeds. In spades!

    3 out of 5 stars Not quite what I was hoping for........2005-09-02

    I was expecting something a bit more dense and penetrating from this album, based on my limited experiences with their previous effort. I do enjoy listening to it, but the work tends toward a minimalism that makes it a bit less engaging than I had hoped. It IS interesting listening, and worth purchasing as long as you don't pay an outrageous price for it. For a more detailed description of the music, try the allmusic review, which is fairly accurate.

    2 out of 5 stars Shub-Niggurath - 'Testament' (Gazul/Musea).......2005-02-14

    One thing I'll say about this band is they've mastered their own original sound and style of free form experimental.Their heavy influences are drawn from King Crimson,Magma and Univers Zero.'Testament' has ten nemeless tracks.Unless you thoroughly enjoy some of the MOST 'out-there' experimental sorts of music,you may want to listen to some sound clips of this CD before purchasing a copy.I,personally know a few obscure music fans that may like it.Line-up:Jean Lue Herve-guitar,Alan Ballard-bass,Edward Perraud-drums and Veronique Verdier-trombone.
    C'Etaient de Tres Grands Vents
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • My first "favorite" S-N album
    		 C'Etaient de Tres Grands Vents
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    Manufacturer: Musea
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00004VNHJ
    Release Date: 2006-06-01

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars My first "favorite" S-N album.......2005-10-14

    It's a tribute to this band that, in succession, each of their three albums have been considered by me my favorite. At this writing, this one comes in third. But at one time it was first. TESTAMENT may always be their best, and it's truly amazing how LES MORTE-- has come on so strong recently for me. Creepy and vile, any true-blue fan of what scares will want to own this album.
    Les Morts Vont Vite
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • An Otherwordly Cacophony
    • Like Magma more than it's like anything else...
    		 Les Morts Vont Vite

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    Tracks:

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    4. La Ballade De Lre
    5. Delear Prius
    6. J'Ai Vu Nagu En Peinture Les Harpies Ravissant Le Repas De Phyn

    Album Description

    Unclassifiable and with boundless originality, SHUB-NIGGURATH blends influences of MAGMA, ART ZOYD, UNIVERS ZERO and KING CRIMSON with echoes of PENDERECKI. From this unique alchemy comes a feverish, violent, intense and dark music in which the listener can sometimes hear anguished female vocals and a Robert FRIPP-like guitar. The relatively classical instruments used (Harmonium, guitar, bass, drums & trombone) blend with strange metal sheets sounds when those are either hit or scraped. Reissued by the label Gazul, the first album "Les Morts Vont Vite" (1986) is now considered a timeless classic. Issued five years later, "C'Etaient De Grands Vents" was recorded by a band reduced to four members only. At this occasion, the line-up from Paris had gone even further into dissonance and contemporary music, abandoning thus all rhythmic patterns and harmonies. "Testament" (2003) is the last musical testimony by SHUB-NIGGURATH. The musicians decided to issue those last compositions as a tribute to one of them, recently deceased. Here are then ten tracks that can be classified among the most radical and daring as far as experimenting is concerned. The proof will have been made, one ast time, that SHUB-NIGGURATH was indeed a major band in contemporary music.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars An Otherwordly Cacophony.......2006-07-15

    Since I don't generally listen to or review this type of music, those who follow my reviews may wonder what possessed me to review a group with the outlandish name of Shub-Niggurath. One thing, friends. Shub-Niggurath is a name from the fevered imagination of one of my favorite horror writers, the late Howard P. Lovecraft. The name of the band and the name of the third song tells me this French group may have been fans as well.
    Knowing what I do about Lovecraft's "dream cycle" of horror stories, with all of the nightmarish names, creatures, and places featured in them, it seems that the band Shub-Niggurath set about to create the type of music that Lovecraft's creatures might have themselves composed. While the band does not create the hoped for level of sonic terror, it succeeds in creating an otherwordly cacophony that cannot help but inspire dread in the less stouthearted listener.
    My favorites here, if you can call them that, are the opening cut Incipit Tragaedia, with its jarringly off-key background vocals and fury of blaring horns, clanging and clashing percussion; the discordant Yog Sothoth, named for one of Lovecraft's fearsome Old Ones; the hellish din and eerie voices of La Ballade De Lenore; and the unutterably harsh J'ai Vu Naguere En Peinture Les Harpies Ravissant le Repas de Phynee.
    Les Morts Vont Vite is not going to be in heavy rotation, but I am going to put it on next time I re-read one of HP Lovecraft's more outre' tales. It may just make give his stories a little sharper edge. If you have not read Lovecraft, try him out while listening to this!

    5 out of 5 stars Like Magma more than it's like anything else..........2005-12-04

    But it's not that much like Magma, either, lacking the energy, repetition, and funk that suffuse Magma's work. Instead, this is music of brooding intensity punctuated by glorious frenzy. The best of Shub Niggurath's albums and also the most approachable. Not exactly easy listening, though.
    Testament
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      		Testament
      Shub-Niggurath
      Manufacturer: Musea Records France
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0000AKNOB
      Release Date: 2006-05-31
      Les Morts Vont Vite
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • "Her" voice will grow on you,
      • thunderous, terrifying soundscapes
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      Binding: Audio CD

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      Release Date: 2001-01-01

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars "Her" voice will grow on you,.......2005-10-14

      ...all over you. Up and down your ancient spine, given time. I found that the point was to let this hideous work reveal itself to me, track after track. Go ahead, judge it -- at first. It will let you: it knows you're only human. But beware! Though this soprano sounded, to my ears, a bit false, I later understood it was only because the forces had her in their hands as a puppet-creature, and were using her as a mockery of all human. When you really start feeling this, I believe you will have found the dark heart of Shub-Niggurath. And Lovecraft will be proud.

      5 out of 5 stars thunderous, terrifying soundscapes.......2003-01-23

      This music sounds HUGE. Imagine the bass from King Crimson's 'Red' thrown even deeper into the red, with similer angular, sparse guitar and jazzier drums. Throw in eerie, operatic female vocals and the occasional piano, haunted house organ, and trombone. Produce it in such a manner as to emphasise vastness, as well as the subtlties of sonority and timbre. You will have Shub-Niggurath's 'Les Morts Vont Vite'

      I found this band by way of 'Magma', which introduced me to the strange french prog scene under the loosely defined banner of "zeuhl" music. To the best of my knowledge, "zeuhl" is used to mean that a band sounds like 'Magma'.

      Some of 'Magma"'s output is wonderful (and some is awful), so when I saw this band 'Shub-Niggurath' assigned the descriptor "zeuhl", I thought, this could be pretty good. AND IT IS GOOD!

      And it sounds nothing like Magma. This is some seriously evil sounding stuff, far better than anything else I've heard under the 'zeuhl' moniker, with the exception of the very best of Magma. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.

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