Neptunian Maximalism

NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM is a community of multi « occultural engineers » with a variable geometry/line-up. This project was initiated by Guillaume Cazalet (CZLT ; SOL KIA ; ZAÄAR) and the veteran saxophonist player Jean-Jacques Duerinckx (ZAÄAR ; Ze Zorgs) in Brussels in 2018, especially during a residency with the two drummers Sebastien Schmit (K-Branding) and Pierre Arese (AKSU).

The result was a bifacial entity, sometimes calling for a primitive voodoo trance with percussive intonations, dominated by rhythm and a savage movement, sometimes towards a psychedelic meditation with prophetic and spiritual accents resting on an amplified drone music where time is explored, harmony, the power of the tonic and its iridescent harmonics, durability, weight, ruin.

Olivier Vanhalst (Botanique) recommends NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM:

“Resolutely outside of formats, including areas in which we would be tempted to box them (avant-rock, drone, free jazz ...), Neptunian Maximalism, a collective with variable geometry/line-up, sets no limits in their quest for mystical trance. With a triple album called 'Éons', one of the craziest records of a none less crazy year of 2020, the band now undoubtedly stands out as an essential reference for any music lover in search of new sensations. Their recent live appearances at festivals such as Le Guess Who, Roadburn Redux or Nuits Botanique (Botanique supports the group through its program of 'residential mandates') have blown away all those who have had the chance to attend them. A die-hard live experience, a journey to the confines of the vastness of the universe and to the depths of ourselves”.

Rewatch their performance at ESNS: