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Christian Vander a formé Magma deux ans après la mort de John Coltrane, pour lequel il avait une admiration sans limite. Considérant qu’il était impossible de faire du jazz après Coltrane, il invente sa propre musique, qui marie les influences de la musique contemporaine : majoritairement Igor Stravinsky, le free jazz, et le rock d’avant garde: Soft Machine, Frank Zappa. Ce groupe d’un genre nouveau fait office de pavé dans la mare ; il faut rappeler qu’à l’époque la France baignait dans un univers musical plutôt stagnant, un brin naïf et surtout politiquement correct.
L’essentiel des paroles sont chantées dans une langue imaginaire, le kobaïen, inventée par Christian Vander. Cette langue aux consonances germaniques ajoute au décalage de la musique du groupe.
Un nombre limité d’albums a été produit en 35 ans de carrière mais la discographie du groupe brille également par ses enregistrements en concert qui proposent au fil du temps des ré-interprétations talentueuses de ses compositions classiques. Le groupe connaîtra une carrière en pointillés avec des reformations régulières, un revirement vers plus d’accessibilité avec une musique nettement plus commerciale en 1977 (apparition d’influences soul, rhythm’n ‘blues, voire funky et chant du leader-batteur-compositeur) et reste aujourd’hui en activité (plus de 150 musiciens sont passés dans Magma !).
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MalgreMoi
@Quisquillan i don't even like Beach House wtf
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bobgreen623
I suppose you can like them without 'listening' to them, feeling the power and emotion overwhelming you and sweeping you away; you may not be 'listening' to them, but you're surely 'hearing' them, which is something in itself. To pu it another way, you may not understand it (ok, the obvious part is the Kobaiian lyrics) but you can certainly dig it. I'm not even sure Christian Vander himself understands the extent of Magma's power all of the time, but to watch him play you can see he is digging it.
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DesignToKill
Vu hier !
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Quisquillian
By the way - I was high on methamphetamine when I wrote that lengthy paragraph. Mea culpa.
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Quisquillian
Fuck off. You like Beach House, MalgreMoi.
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MalgreMoi
Pretty bad
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lter__Impius
@Flight123: How much he payed them for the last show, mate?
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Flight123
I second that Bob - perhaps Steve 'Interesting' Davies can tempt them over again!
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Progbear
I own albums by three bands named Magma (French, Argentine and Korean) and love them all!
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bobgreen623
I am hoping that while they are actively touring they might see fit to visit England. Please?
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obsessed_nl
I applaud your attempt at making a shout here with some actual content and depth to it, and I agree with you to a large extent, but I think that quote about liking them while not listening, though mostly meant as a joke, is not necessarily just a hipster thing. It is possible to really like the idea of a band more than their music itself. That being said, I love Magma.
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Quisquillian
"I like them the most when I'm not listening to them."? How ridiculous. Incidentally, it is so unduly dismissive to use the critical nomenclature that immediately puts the group at an inaccessible remove from those wishing to discover them - witness such spurious, nongermane trash as "Klingon opera" and any superlative + "weird"/"bizarre"/"insane"/"maniacal", etc. Magma are *unusual* only in that they are absolutely, uncompromisingly unique, and consequently there is NO-ONE like them, nobody can even emulate them accurately (though their various progenies and those who took it upon themselves to mutate the zeuhl style are typically amazing groups in themselves, provided they aren't merely imitators). I'll say this much. "Köhntarkösz" is THE most emotionally powerful and beguiling and utterly flawless composition I've ever come across in a decade of perusing "out there" and progressive music. In particular, last night the "Live/Hhaï" rendition had me in tears, its divine beauty is such.
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J3_R
I hate to see Magma's titles without diacritics. [2] so true
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Ranunculus
I hate to see Magma's titles without diacritics.
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JDarling69
I like them the most when I'm not listening to them. [2]
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Robert161989
awesome
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lter__Impius
Give me the money, I'll teach you.
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Ranunculus
I want to take a Kobaïan course.
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lter__Impius
What does 'Thösz' mean?
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Oates_Moustache
Wow. This is terrifying, strange and bizarrely endearing.
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