Artist: Magma
Genre(s):
Alternative
Rock
Discography:
Udu Wudu
Year: 1978
Tracks: 7
Kohntarkosz
Year: 1974
Tracks: 4
Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (M.D.K.)
Year: 1973
Tracks: 7
Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Year: 1973
Tracks: 7
1.001 Centigrades
Year: 1971
Tracks: 3
Magma
Year: 1970
Tracks: 10
Light-emitting diode by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander, the Paris-based Magma was, in their direction, possibly the ultimate imperfect tense rock radical; patch other artists achieved greater commercial success and critical applaud, Magma typified the many ambitions and excesses of the writing style which magnetic north Korean won it as many detractors as fans, even leaving so far as to invent their possess lyric poem and musical interpreter communication in order to bring their singular form sight to life. The logos of a wind pianist, Vander initially followed in his father's footsteps, model his proficiency on the make for of Saint John Coltrane alum Elvin Jones and starting his career with a number of jazz and R&B outfits. Piece in Paris in 1969, however, he was smitten by a imagination of earth's negro spiritual and bionomical future which so disturbed him that he decided to search his fears by musical theater way, assembling Magma with the aid of wife and vocalist Frank Stella, singer Klaus Blasquiz, and nuclear fusion reaction bassists Francis Moze and Jannick Top.
As defined on the group's eponymous 1970 double-album debut, Vander's tale -- relieved to be told over the line of ten LPs -- pitted ground against a rival satellite named Kobaia. Over the grade of 1971's 1001 Centigrade and 1973's Mekanïk Destructïw Kommandoh (recorded with a choir), the narrative -- oft of it told in native Kobaian -- unfolded to limn an worldly concern so uninhabitable that its citizens moldiness fly to the nearby satellite, where long clip of struggle culminated in the achievement of cosmic concordance and a reconciliation with the graven image Ptäh. Chart achiever was not forthcoming, and later a few too soon tours of the U.S. and Britain Magma washed-out the eye days of the tenner about solo in France, where they launched records including 1974's Kohntarkosz and the hereafter year's Subsist. Subsequently the commercial message failure of 1976's Udu Wadu and 1977's Edits, Magma fundamentally disbanded, although the radical lived on in various forms, as alumni founded a number of loosely-affiliated splinter groups to bear on Vander's act in subsequent years, including Artistic creation Zoyd, Univers Zero, Supporting players Glory, Happy Family and Ruins. In 1983, Vander himself resurfaced with the acoustic devise Offering, only afterward returned to more highfaluting designs with Les Voix de Magma, an attempt to resurrect his early on material for a modern generation of listeners.
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