Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
Comments: While musically this is excellent, I just couldn't even care about it enough to give it a proper listen. It's just long.
Artist: Neptunian Maximalism
Rating: MEH
Genres: Avant-garde Jazz,  Drone Metal Avant-garde Metal,  Brutal Prog,  Drone,  Free Jazz,  Post-Metal,  Psychedelic Rock,  Spiritual Jazz,  Tribal Ambient
Released: 2020
Type: Album
Label: I, Voidhanger Records
Link: Bandcamp
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... more

released June 26, 2020
Editions:
2020 Original Release
I, Voidhanger Records | IVR133 | CD/Digital/Vinyl