It's funny, when you talk to some fans of the group, it almost always falls on the same references: Carl Orff, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, John Coltrane, but soon we realize that they have the best vaguely heard the "Carmina Burana" ... finally the "rock literature" is something that is rather transmits that understands and clichés die hard!
I am convinced that if we did listen first MDK saying it is the Yes, everyone would shout fire, fire!
For Magma is a firefighter and seriously! Do not talk about the Kobaïan, if Jon Anderson wrote the hundredth, he would have been stoned to death with Minimoog!
Despite a pro-Magma snobbery often incomprehensible on the part of anti-prog madmen, I love this record. The musicians are good, but here is favored at the expense of collective virtuosity (in Magma it is not jazz). Christian Vander mastered the art of collage as cubist painters of the early twentieth. Its borrowings are always quite short and discreet not to cry plagiarism, but it's arranger, creator of atmosphere, a real composer.
The voice of Klaus Blasquiz is obviously very original ... and we see evil move to the Star Academy (although it's a little-Era Enigma by now). The voices of "kobaïettes" sometimes are a bit limited, but I like the bass playing of Jannick Top it compensates! The orchestration is seen pulling over on a classic-rock mixture that towards jazz roots.
A beautiful album helmed well but not to listen at all hours of the day.
