Zeru ta Lur

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Zeru ta Lur, aka « Sky, Earth », pronounced Cerue ta Loorr as well as Cerü ta Lürr, depending on which Basque dialect may be chosen in reference, is an instrumental project of (French) cold wave, minimalist, proto-industrial but neo-romantic, opened in 2011 by Zuhurbelea, civilian name Bertrand ESCAFFRE. The purpose of this hommage band is to pursuit the exploration begun in 1980 by Joy Division & Martin Hannett when these artists produced the strange experiences titled In A Lonely Place, Ceremony, Heart and Soul, Procession, Denial et As You Said. The majoritary influence is therefore Joy Division with a krautrock tendency which characterised the « old school » cold wave, the mancunian one at Factory's. While early Cocteau Twins or Red Lorry Yellow Lorry had a hitting similarity with their Scottish neighbours on the point of view of guitar and bass, Zeru ta Lur rather share with Joy Division the heavy, disframed and tense rythmical structure, as well as the psychanalytic oddity of the ambiences. We are then not about rock anymore, but rather on a kind of monolithic elabored and impersonal minimalist, definitely instrumental. Concerning occasional similarities, it could be possible to detect unexpected crossings with the Creatures at their beginnings, and more obviously with Réseau d'Ombres. It all is the legitimity to speak here of Cold Core, the very heart, radical, mechanist and abstract of first school cold wave. Stuff with other orientation are automatically ranged i

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Some Demos

Pre-Demos 2012

Teoriko Urruntartzunak, NO alcohol music

Sekretu Batzuk

Teoriko Urruntartzunak

Lanes (EP), NO alcohol music

Teoriko Urruntartzunak - alternative versions, NO alcohol music

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Teoriko Urruntartzunak (Distances Théoriques), NO alcohol music

Rivages (EP), NO alcohol music

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Rivages (Maxi)

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Teoriko Urruntartzunak / Distances Théoriques

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