The second album from this band from France.
The band is a sextet with a lineup of drums, bass, violin, keyboards, saxophones and vocals.
Zeuhl is not the genre where we get a lot of new studio albums from. In a lucky year, between seven and ten albums. That includes a new album from Magma. Or in most years, between four and six albums.
2023 has been a pretty bad year when it comes to zeuhl. Then we get an unexpected album from a band I thought had split up years ago. In the case of Rhun, that is indeed the case. The drummer Captain Flapattak recruited five new musicians and marched them into the studio.
An excellent idea !
The vocals are in Kobaian too and the music is in the Magma vein. The difference is that where Magma were and are bombastic with the use of choirs and massive amount of drums, Rhun are more subtle and has chosen a more jazzy version of zeuhl.
They still sound pretty similar to Magma.
The music is pretty frantic and busy. Ditto for the vocals.
Tozih is also a logical follow up to their very good 2013 debut album Fanfare Du Chaos.
The forty minutes long album has got three compositions and the main composition Ehmet Um Rhet Sam is the clocking in at twenty-two minutes. It has everything a major piece of zeuhl should have... and some pleasing surprises. This is a great piece of music.
The two other compositions is not of the same standard.
Nevertheless, this is a very good album and one to check out. The Zeuhl genre is alive and well.
3.5 points
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