Magma

Location: Cap Decouverte, FranceConcert date: 17.09.2009Attendance: 600Ticket price: 80/100 € That time of year has rolled around again, when all of us fans of the movement known as Rock in opposition make our way to France - a movement…

The album is undoubtedly worth buying for Rïah Sahïltaahk alone, but the weaker second half means that, as far as I'm concerned, this is the worst studio album in Magma's history.

In the eighties Magma were still breathing, and just as mightily as ever. Christian Vander always knew how to gather a bunch of talented musicians around him who could bring his ideas to life the way they deserve. Retrospektiw 3 sho

As usual, there were big lineup changes in Magma after Wurdah Itah. Udu Wudu actually features a whole bunch of new musicians. Mostly they're familiar faces from Magma's orbit (people who had already played live with the band), but some are…

Magma had already returned to the stage in the nineties, but there was still no sign they'd put out anything new. Then, just when fans figured Magma was done for good, the band came back. And with a single, their first and, so far, only…

Magma went more than two decades without releasing a studio album, then in 2004 they announced a new record. Kohntarkosz Anteria was composed three decades ago, but Christian Vander simply never fou

After a few years off and some experimenting with rather different music in The Offering, Christian Vander decided in the early nineties to bring Magma back to life. One of the first gigs was the so-called "Les Voix" in Fran

After 1978 and the album Attahk, Magma decided to take a bit of a break. Really, it was more about focusing on live shows and less on studio projects. So in the early eighties they decided to put out

After Udu Wudu, Attahk is the next album that doesn't continue the story from the planet Kobaia. Some pieces are set on that imaginary planet, but they weren't meant as part of a larger opus. On this album, Vander instead dev

Wurdah Itah is officially not even a Magma album, but a solo project by the band's drummer and visionary Christian Vander. Still, pretty much everyone files it under Magma, so I'll go along with that too. The album is quite

If Magma created the template for a genre called zeuhl with Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh, here they went in a different direction. MDK is packed with rich, layered chants, battle horns and manic drumming, while K&

How many people can you say single-handedly invented an entire genre? Not many. Christian Vander is one of them. The development of that genre (zeuhl) started with this album. After two more jazz-flavored releases, it was time for a change.…

Magma is one of the few bands in progressive rock that truly matters. When their first album came out, listeners and critics were in shock, because Magma had made music the world had never heard before. The music had