So listen to the intro of Hortz Fur Dehn Steken West, opening the legendary Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh, there was the impression of entering the field of Evil Emperor of a galaxy far far away ... It's lecture, decadent at once imposing and bizarre ... It is also Magma!
Magma and it is mostly the obsessions of a funny little guy Nogent sur Marne, adopted son of the pianist Claude Nougaro (Maurice Vander), drummer / vocalist / pianist / composer / inventor of the thing is so much music Moreover it has its own language (kobaïen) and its own universe where there is also intersects well as John Coltrane Stravinsky / Orff / Stockhausen (etc. for the contemporary side of the case) or King Crimson .. . Re-hashed Zeuhl sauce, of course!, since this is how Christian Vander label style, improbable fusion of his training. For newbies, we gladly Magma describe as a kind of polyphonic mutant progressive jazz, a genre where freedom Coltrane, the stravinskienne harmonic experimentation and sombre majesty crimsonienne meet.
So Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh, Sgt Pepper, Red, The Pet Sounds, A Love Supreme to the francilienne training ... Their magnum opus was general. Because the album is hot, trippy, almost transcendental. A jazz album less than were its predecessors and where the addition of a vocalist as frapadingue Klaus Blasquiz brings his stone to the edifice. And what a building! A majestic, dark and fanciful space opera, opera voice because it's important at Magma, which takes you to the first second, the way leads you into the intricacies of creation Vanderienne, meanders where possible dissolve in boiling magma (although I had to make the one) of "Creativity" (well documented interstellar virus) overflowing, to leave you, bloodless but happy, too short but intense 38 minutes later ... A huge (space) trip, what! So obviously, this music wins, request multiple listenings to be fully and thoroughly understood, it will in a greater endurance, superior resistance to wear of time.
Because once won once explored other splendors of Kobaïa-Prime catalog (Magma therefore, with priority Kohntarkosz or Wurdah ITAH because the zeul Christian did little else until japan) invariably returns to MDK, a masterpiece, a true!
Christian Vander: drums, vocals, organ, percussion
Jannick Top: Low
Klaus Blasquiz: vocals, percussion
Jean-Luc Manderlier: piano, organ
Rene Garber: bass clarinet, vocals
Claude Olmos: guitar
Stella Vander: vocals
Muriel Streisfield: vocals
Evelyne Razymovski: vocals
Michele Saulnier: singing
Doris Reinhardt: singing
Teddy Lasry: bass, flute
