Rhùn

Rhùn is a Magma-influenced music group from your Basse-Normandy area of northwest France, with users surviving in and around the regional capital of Caen and two coastal communes, Coutances and Cherbourg. The group includes many stylistic components of Christian Vander’s longstanding zeuhl pioneers from the ’70s onward, including martial beats, free of charge jazz fixations, chanted vocal choruses in the design of Magma’s created Kobaïan vocabulary, and a like of diacritical marks, especially umlauts. Nevertheless, the music group is somewhat much less serious than Magma, tipping a little toward rambunctious avant jazz skronk and indie electric guitar crunch instead of black-garbed Carl Orff-tinged post-minimalism (and in addition much less proggy/metallic than drummer Tatsuya Yoshida’s Magma-inspired Koenji Hyakkei and various other groups of japan zeuhl college). Actually, Rhùn’s members have got reportedly defined their music as “garage area zeuhl.” In naming themselves (unless their parents had been accountable, but that appears doubtful), the bandmembers appear to possess ripped a full page from your same Kobaïan publication as Magma circa the Attahk recording of 1977, when the initial zeuhlists used such monikers as Dëhrstün (Vander), Ürgon/Gorgo (bassist Man Delacroix), Klotz (vocalist Klaus Blasquiz), and Thaud (vocalist Stella Vander). Around 35 years later on, Rhùn recognized themselves and their affiliates in similar style, with names which range from certainly developed to others of differing/suspect source, including Captain Flapattak (drums and vocals) Damoon (bass and vocals), Thybo (acoustic guitar and vocals), Brunöh aka Brhüno (saxophones, bassoon, and vocals), Sam aka Samïsh (saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, and vocals), Fabien De Kerbalek (acoustic guitar and vocals), Marion aka Marhïon Mouette (vocals and percussion), Emilie Massue (vocals and percussion), as well as the ever well-known and perhaps palate-pleasing Lemmy Croquettes (audio). Circa 2008-2009, Rhùn created two versions of the demonstration recording, the next five-track version released from the Caen-based Babel Seafood imprint beneath the name Fanfare du Chaos, as well as the music group subsequently garnered interest from Milan, Italy’s AltrOck label. From June 2011 to January 2012 the group documented additional songs, supplemented with interludes from users of the Outfit Pantagrulair chamber winds (Séverine Lebrun, transverse flute and piccolo), Rémi Christophe (oboe), Catherine Mousset (clarinet), and Pierre Mariette (horn). (And is it feasible that Pantagrulair’s bassoonist Bruno Godard and Rhùn’s Brunöh aka Brhüno will be the same person? Pure conjecture.) AltrOck released Rhùn’s full-length debut, Ïh, in 2013; the recording includes three songs recorded through the 2011-2012 classes and three previously demonstration tracks like a “bhönus,” all perfected by Udi Koomran at Ginger Studio room in Tel Aviv. The bhönus songs feature vocalist Massue, while Mouette shows up within the recordings from 2011-2012. Also, the Ïh credits name the evidently knighted Sir Alron as bassist over the bhönus music, although Damoon is apparently the bassist over the Fanfare du Chaos demonstration individually released by Babel Seafood. It seems feasible that, in the wonderful world of commoners, Sir Alron is only Damoon, who acquired at least momentarily followed knighthood as his own private bhönus.