NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM ( NNMM )
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Biographie
NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM, aka NNMM and its multiple “Arkestra” formulas, was initiated by multi-instrumentalist Guillaume Cazalet on guitar/bass and vocals with veteran saxophonist Jean Jacques Duerinckx in Brussels in 2018, during a residency with the two drummers Sébastien Schmit and Pierre Arese.
The result of this encounter was a bifacial entity, sometimes calling for a primitive voodoo trance with percussive intonations, dominated by repetitive and explosive rhythm, threatening wild spirits emanating from a violent original chaos, sometimes towards a psychedelic meditation based on amplified drone music where time, harmony, the power of the tonic and its iridescent harmonics, weight, durability, ruin are explored aspects. All this was the result of a freely improvised musical process captured in 2 intense days.
From this residency was born their first EP, The Conference Of The Stars (2018), released on Homo Sensibilis Sounds, a powerful universal expansion manifested by a slow, heavy and intense harmonic progression illuminated by a flamboyant sopranino saxophone. It will be followed by an epic trilogy album of 02h09min entitled ÉONS (2020) released on I, Voidhanger Records which remains the centerpiece of their discography as its radicality, its coherent diversity and its singularity finds no equal, mixing mystical and chaotic drone/doom metal, pachydermic free jazz, the whole animated by a cosmic and psychedelic energy imbued with primary forces, inhabited by spiritual and prophetic possessions, resulting in part from the editing, arrangement and post-production work of Guillaume and exalted by a cover signed by the Japanese monumental painter artist Kaneko Tomiyuki.
By exploring the evolution of the human species, they question the future of life on earth, the narrative of which is drawn in titles as evocative as they are hermetic, and whose expression takes shape through the use of speculative texts in prototypal Homo-sapiens language (*Pierre Lanchantin), the attraction to philosophy, the academic path in architecture, history and plastic arts as well as a form of shamanic introspection aimed at the invocation of ancestral or inner animal identities. The collective ultimately attempts to create a feeling of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a soteriological musical experience.
In 2019, Guillaume undertook the creation of a larger line-up in order to restore the multiple musical layers resulting from the post production work of the first albums. Reshma Goolamy (bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Didié Nietzche (granular synthesis), Joaquín Bermudez (saz), Alice Thiel (keyboard), Stephane Fedele & Lukas Melville (drums) joined the project that takes the form of the "Arkestra". In 2024, Rob Martin has been officiating on drums, while some changes in the line-up are still happening, in accordance to future creative work and/ or individual circumstances. In June 2025, percussionist Marti Ilmar Uibo (Chaos Echoes), whose range extends from avant-garde metal to archaeo-music, took over as drummer.
In 2020, they conceived the album Solar Drone Ceremony which balances free improvisation and composition in a psychedelic space opera of doom, free jazz and krautrock. It was followed by two live albums, Set The Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon (Roadburn Redux 2021) and Finis Gloriae Mundi (2022) which partly compile the first two albums reinterpreted for the stage. The project then begins to tour on European stages until the end of 2023. In the meantime, the collective has proposed several works and live recordings composed of different formations, multiple sound/spatial explorations and various techniques and creative protocols, such as its so called "Drone Arkestra" formation without percussion flirting with spectral/serialist music, or its formation "Adisheshanaga Trio" composed of Guillaume, Jean Jacques and percussionist Sattar Khan on tablas.
Still producing a form of syncretic music, NNMM begins 2023 on a turning point with the Adishesha Arkestra: a 6-member formation, exploring Indian classical music using amplified instruments. Initiated by Guillaume, who learns and practices Indian classical music with infamous sitarist Roopa Panesar, NNMM is now looking for the absolute emotional power of Hindustani music with as much respect as possible for this culture in their exploration of Ragas. This new phase is guided by their will of awareness and consciousness upon essential musical preoccupation, along with their ever-growing need of a spiritual weapon.
In September 2023, they were commissioned to perform at St John’s on Bethnal Green church in London for the The Judgment Hall Festival. Over four days, they undertook a residency in the church, forming an unusual yet profound bond with its architecture and the history and energy it held within. In this space, they morphed into a new entity, turning their performance into an ecstatic experience.
From this live performance was born a new triple album: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI), produced with the support of the FWB and Le Botanique, mastered by James Plotkin, premiered at Roadburn 2024, that will be released on April 11th, 2025 (I, Voidhanger Records). After extensive post-production and arrangements, a studio recorded Surbahar solo, the final piece spans two hours and revisits 3 Ragas of Indian classical music; Raga Marwa, Raga Todi and Raga Bairagi. This album is similar to a rite of passage. One can be taken into a soothing, slow adrift into a nebulous dusk where hypnotizing melodies merge with the shock of heavy yet shimmering drones into a magistral space-opera. Emerging from a black hole, the tenebrous bells of the Surbahar announce the explosive trip into the threat of a night haunted by the battling spirits’ wrath. The violence of relentless war drums fighting vampiric guitar leads, finally resolving in a sneaky groove. The psychedelic journey resumes with the dissolved elements coagulating into a solid new form, ready to rise from the grave at The Judgment horn's calling, for the rebirth and blossom of a seed in a bare ground. A merciful complaint of everlasting notes, full of love and grace, fueled by engaging bass and drums. The cycle then resolves in a deus ex machina.
The result of this encounter was a bifacial entity, sometimes calling for a primitive voodoo trance with percussive intonations, dominated by repetitive and explosive rhythm, threatening wild spirits emanating from a violent original chaos, sometimes towards a psychedelic meditation based on amplified drone music where time, harmony, the power of the tonic and its iridescent harmonics, weight, durability, ruin are explored aspects. All this was the result of a freely improvised musical process captured in 2 intense days.
From this residency was born their first EP, The Conference Of The Stars (2018), released on Homo Sensibilis Sounds, a powerful universal expansion manifested by a slow, heavy and intense harmonic progression illuminated by a flamboyant sopranino saxophone. It will be followed by an epic trilogy album of 02h09min entitled ÉONS (2020) released on I, Voidhanger Records which remains the centerpiece of their discography as its radicality, its coherent diversity and its singularity finds no equal, mixing mystical and chaotic drone/doom metal, pachydermic free jazz, the whole animated by a cosmic and psychedelic energy imbued with primary forces, inhabited by spiritual and prophetic possessions, resulting in part from the editing, arrangement and post-production work of Guillaume and exalted by a cover signed by the Japanese monumental painter artist Kaneko Tomiyuki.
By exploring the evolution of the human species, they question the future of life on earth, the narrative of which is drawn in titles as evocative as they are hermetic, and whose expression takes shape through the use of speculative texts in prototypal Homo-sapiens language (*Pierre Lanchantin), the attraction to philosophy, the academic path in architecture, history and plastic arts as well as a form of shamanic introspection aimed at the invocation of ancestral or inner animal identities. The collective ultimately attempts to create a feeling of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a soteriological musical experience.
In 2019, Guillaume undertook the creation of a larger line-up in order to restore the multiple musical layers resulting from the post production work of the first albums. Reshma Goolamy (bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Didié Nietzche (granular synthesis), Joaquín Bermudez (saz), Alice Thiel (keyboard), Stephane Fedele & Lukas Melville (drums) joined the project that takes the form of the "Arkestra". In 2024, Rob Martin has been officiating on drums, while some changes in the line-up are still happening, in accordance to future creative work and/ or individual circumstances. In June 2025, percussionist Marti Ilmar Uibo (Chaos Echoes), whose range extends from avant-garde metal to archaeo-music, took over as drummer.
In 2020, they conceived the album Solar Drone Ceremony which balances free improvisation and composition in a psychedelic space opera of doom, free jazz and krautrock. It was followed by two live albums, Set The Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon (Roadburn Redux 2021) and Finis Gloriae Mundi (2022) which partly compile the first two albums reinterpreted for the stage. The project then begins to tour on European stages until the end of 2023. In the meantime, the collective has proposed several works and live recordings composed of different formations, multiple sound/spatial explorations and various techniques and creative protocols, such as its so called "Drone Arkestra" formation without percussion flirting with spectral/serialist music, or its formation "Adisheshanaga Trio" composed of Guillaume, Jean Jacques and percussionist Sattar Khan on tablas.
Still producing a form of syncretic music, NNMM begins 2023 on a turning point with the Adishesha Arkestra: a 6-member formation, exploring Indian classical music using amplified instruments. Initiated by Guillaume, who learns and practices Indian classical music with infamous sitarist Roopa Panesar, NNMM is now looking for the absolute emotional power of Hindustani music with as much respect as possible for this culture in their exploration of Ragas. This new phase is guided by their will of awareness and consciousness upon essential musical preoccupation, along with their ever-growing need of a spiritual weapon.
In September 2023, they were commissioned to perform at St John’s on Bethnal Green church in London for the The Judgment Hall Festival. Over four days, they undertook a residency in the church, forming an unusual yet profound bond with its architecture and the history and energy it held within. In this space, they morphed into a new entity, turning their performance into an ecstatic experience.
From this live performance was born a new triple album: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI), produced with the support of the FWB and Le Botanique, mastered by James Plotkin, premiered at Roadburn 2024, that will be released on April 11th, 2025 (I, Voidhanger Records). After extensive post-production and arrangements, a studio recorded Surbahar solo, the final piece spans two hours and revisits 3 Ragas of Indian classical music; Raga Marwa, Raga Todi and Raga Bairagi. This album is similar to a rite of passage. One can be taken into a soothing, slow adrift into a nebulous dusk where hypnotizing melodies merge with the shock of heavy yet shimmering drones into a magistral space-opera. Emerging from a black hole, the tenebrous bells of the Surbahar announce the explosive trip into the threat of a night haunted by the battling spirits’ wrath. The violence of relentless war drums fighting vampiric guitar leads, finally resolving in a sneaky groove. The psychedelic journey resumes with the dissolved elements coagulating into a solid new form, ready to rise from the grave at The Judgment horn's calling, for the rebirth and blossom of a seed in a bare ground. A merciful complaint of everlasting notes, full of love and grace, fueled by engaging bass and drums. The cycle then resolves in a deus ex machina.
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Biographie
NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM, aka NNMM and its multiple “Arkestra” formulas, was initiated by multi-instrumentalist Guillaume Cazalet on guitar/bass and vocals with veteran saxophonist Jean Jacques Duerinckx in Brussels in 2018, during a residency with the two drummers Sébastien Schmit and Pierre Arese.
The result of this encounter was a bifacial entity, sometimes calling for a primitive voodoo trance with percussive intonations, dominated by repetitive and explosive rhythm, threatening wild spirits emanating from a violent original chaos, sometimes towards a psychedelic meditation based on amplified drone music where time, harmony, the power of the tonic and its iridescent harmonics, weight, durability, ruin are explored aspects. All this was the result of a freely improvised musical process captured in 2 intense days.
From this residency was born their first EP, The Conference Of The Stars (2018), released on Homo Sensibilis Sounds, a powerful universal expansion manifested by a slow, heavy and intense harmonic progression illuminated by a flamboyant sopranino saxophone. It will be followed by an epic trilogy album of 02h09min entitled ÉONS (2020) released on I, Voidhanger Records which remains the centerpiece of their discography as its radicality, its coherent diversity and its singularity finds no equal, mixing mystical and chaotic drone/doom metal, pachydermic free jazz, the whole animated by a cosmic and psychedelic energy imbued with primary forces, inhabited by spiritual and prophetic possessions, resulting in part from the editing, arrangement and post-production work of Guillaume and exalted by a cover signed by the Japanese monumental painter artist Kaneko Tomiyuki.
By exploring the evolution of the human species, they question the future of life on earth, the narrative of which is drawn in titles as evocative as they are hermetic, and whose expression takes shape through the use of speculative texts in prototypal Homo-sapiens language (*Pierre Lanchantin), the attraction to philosophy, the academic path in architecture, history and plastic arts as well as a form of shamanic introspection aimed at the invocation of ancestral or inner animal identities. The collective ultimately attempts to create a feeling of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a soteriological musical experience.
In 2019, Guillaume undertook the creation of a larger line-up in order to restore the multiple musical layers resulting from the post production work of the first albums. Reshma Goolamy (bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Didié Nietzche (granular synthesis), Joaquín Bermudez (saz), Alice Thiel (keyboard), Stephane Fedele & Lukas Melville (drums) joined the project that takes the form of the "Arkestra". In 2024, Rob Martin has been officiating on drums, while some changes in the line-up are still happening, in accordance to future creative work and/ or individual circumstances. In June 2025, percussionist Marti Ilmar Uibo (Chaos Echoes), whose range extends from avant-garde metal to archaeo-music, took over as drummer.
In 2020, they conceived the album Solar Drone Ceremony which balances free improvisation and composition in a psychedelic space opera of doom, free jazz and krautrock. It was followed by two live albums, Set The Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon (Roadburn Redux 2021) and Finis Gloriae Mundi (2022) which partly compile the first two albums reinterpreted for the stage. The project then begins to tour on European stages until the end of 2023. In the meantime, the collective has proposed several works and live recordings composed of different formations, multiple sound/spatial explorations and various techniques and creative protocols, such as its so called "Drone Arkestra" formation without percussion flirting with spectral/serialist music, or its formation "Adisheshanaga Trio" composed of Guillaume, Jean Jacques and percussionist Sattar Khan on tablas.
Still producing a form of syncretic music, NNMM begins 2023 on a turning point with the Adishesha Arkestra: a 6-member formation, exploring Indian classical music using amplified instruments. Initiated by Guillaume, who learns and practices Indian classical music with infamous sitarist Roopa Panesar, NNMM is now looking for the absolute emotional power of Hindustani music with as much respect as possible for this culture in their exploration of Ragas. This new phase is guided by their will of awareness and consciousness upon essential musical preoccupation, along with their ever-growing need of a spiritual weapon.
In September 2023, they were commissioned to perform at St John’s on Bethnal Green church in London for the The Judgment Hall Festival. Over four days, they undertook a residency in the church, forming an unusual yet profound bond with its architecture and the history and energy it held within. In this space, they morphed into a new entity, turning their performance into an ecstatic experience.
From this live performance was born a new triple album: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI), produced with the support of the FWB and Le Botanique, mastered by James Plotkin, premiered at Roadburn 2024, that will be released on April 11th, 2025 (I, Voidhanger Records). After extensive post-production and arrangements, a studio recorded Surbahar solo, the final piece spans two hours and revisits 3 Ragas of Indian classical music; Raga Marwa, Raga Todi and Raga Bairagi. This album is similar to a rite of passage. One can be taken into a soothing, slow adrift into a nebulous dusk where hypnotizing melodies merge with the shock of heavy yet shimmering drones into a magistral space-opera. Emerging from a black hole, the tenebrous bells of the Surbahar announce the explosive trip into the threat of a night haunted by the battling spirits’ wrath. The violence of relentless war drums fighting vampiric guitar leads, finally resolving in a sneaky groove. The psychedelic journey resumes with the dissolved elements coagulating into a solid new form, ready to rise from the grave at The Judgment horn's calling, for the rebirth and blossom of a seed in a bare ground. A merciful complaint of everlasting notes, full of love and grace, fueled by engaging bass and drums. The cycle then resolves in a deus ex machina.
The result of this encounter was a bifacial entity, sometimes calling for a primitive voodoo trance with percussive intonations, dominated by repetitive and explosive rhythm, threatening wild spirits emanating from a violent original chaos, sometimes towards a psychedelic meditation based on amplified drone music where time, harmony, the power of the tonic and its iridescent harmonics, weight, durability, ruin are explored aspects. All this was the result of a freely improvised musical process captured in 2 intense days.
From this residency was born their first EP, The Conference Of The Stars (2018), released on Homo Sensibilis Sounds, a powerful universal expansion manifested by a slow, heavy and intense harmonic progression illuminated by a flamboyant sopranino saxophone. It will be followed by an epic trilogy album of 02h09min entitled ÉONS (2020) released on I, Voidhanger Records which remains the centerpiece of their discography as its radicality, its coherent diversity and its singularity finds no equal, mixing mystical and chaotic drone/doom metal, pachydermic free jazz, the whole animated by a cosmic and psychedelic energy imbued with primary forces, inhabited by spiritual and prophetic possessions, resulting in part from the editing, arrangement and post-production work of Guillaume and exalted by a cover signed by the Japanese monumental painter artist Kaneko Tomiyuki.
By exploring the evolution of the human species, they question the future of life on earth, the narrative of which is drawn in titles as evocative as they are hermetic, and whose expression takes shape through the use of speculative texts in prototypal Homo-sapiens language (*Pierre Lanchantin), the attraction to philosophy, the academic path in architecture, history and plastic arts as well as a form of shamanic introspection aimed at the invocation of ancestral or inner animal identities. The collective ultimately attempts to create a feeling of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a soteriological musical experience.
In 2019, Guillaume undertook the creation of a larger line-up in order to restore the multiple musical layers resulting from the post production work of the first albums. Reshma Goolamy (bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Didié Nietzche (granular synthesis), Joaquín Bermudez (saz), Alice Thiel (keyboard), Stephane Fedele & Lukas Melville (drums) joined the project that takes the form of the "Arkestra". In 2024, Rob Martin has been officiating on drums, while some changes in the line-up are still happening, in accordance to future creative work and/ or individual circumstances. In June 2025, percussionist Marti Ilmar Uibo (Chaos Echoes), whose range extends from avant-garde metal to archaeo-music, took over as drummer.
In 2020, they conceived the album Solar Drone Ceremony which balances free improvisation and composition in a psychedelic space opera of doom, free jazz and krautrock. It was followed by two live albums, Set The Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon (Roadburn Redux 2021) and Finis Gloriae Mundi (2022) which partly compile the first two albums reinterpreted for the stage. The project then begins to tour on European stages until the end of 2023. In the meantime, the collective has proposed several works and live recordings composed of different formations, multiple sound/spatial explorations and various techniques and creative protocols, such as its so called "Drone Arkestra" formation without percussion flirting with spectral/serialist music, or its formation "Adisheshanaga Trio" composed of Guillaume, Jean Jacques and percussionist Sattar Khan on tablas.
Still producing a form of syncretic music, NNMM begins 2023 on a turning point with the Adishesha Arkestra: a 6-member formation, exploring Indian classical music using amplified instruments. Initiated by Guillaume, who learns and practices Indian classical music with infamous sitarist Roopa Panesar, NNMM is now looking for the absolute emotional power of Hindustani music with as much respect as possible for this culture in their exploration of Ragas. This new phase is guided by their will of awareness and consciousness upon essential musical preoccupation, along with their ever-growing need of a spiritual weapon.
In September 2023, they were commissioned to perform at St John’s on Bethnal Green church in London for the The Judgment Hall Festival. Over four days, they undertook a residency in the church, forming an unusual yet profound bond with its architecture and the history and energy it held within. In this space, they morphed into a new entity, turning their performance into an ecstatic experience.
From this live performance was born a new triple album: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI), produced with the support of the FWB and Le Botanique, mastered by James Plotkin, premiered at Roadburn 2024, that will be released on April 11th, 2025 (I, Voidhanger Records). After extensive post-production and arrangements, a studio recorded Surbahar solo, the final piece spans two hours and revisits 3 Ragas of Indian classical music; Raga Marwa, Raga Todi and Raga Bairagi. This album is similar to a rite of passage. One can be taken into a soothing, slow adrift into a nebulous dusk where hypnotizing melodies merge with the shock of heavy yet shimmering drones into a magistral space-opera. Emerging from a black hole, the tenebrous bells of the Surbahar announce the explosive trip into the threat of a night haunted by the battling spirits’ wrath. The violence of relentless war drums fighting vampiric guitar leads, finally resolving in a sneaky groove. The psychedelic journey resumes with the dissolved elements coagulating into a solid new form, ready to rise from the grave at The Judgment horn's calling, for the rebirth and blossom of a seed in a bare ground. A merciful complaint of everlasting notes, full of love and grace, fueled by engaging bass and drums. The cycle then resolves in a deus ex machina.
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