MAGMA - rfi

Decided to give Merci a chance last week. I'm glad I did. It reminds me a lot of the album they did as Univeria Zekt in 1972. Side 2 and "Otis" are really great.

oh man, if you love Vander's scat singing, Offering is the band for you!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_o-fsArzU

Listening to "Concert 1975: Theatre Du Taur" and man, what a version of "Kohntarkosz." Sound quality is fucking great, too, raw but you feel like you're sitting about 50 feet from the stage. Can we get a Dick Pick's style series of Magma live recordings, please?!

Vander's Ganders

Top's Pops

Blasquiz's Mass Kisses (had a bit of trouble with that one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar5sXdM9Jr8

been loving this album from Jacqueline Thibault, wife of Laurent Thibault

Stell's Belles

That Thibault track is very cool.

FYI they're about to issue a live box, feat remastered of Live/Hhai and the Retrospektiw discs, as well as newer sets. And I'll be getting it.

Cool! Hope it's not super-pricy.

it's out now. anyone got an opinion on how these compare to the originals? heard great things about the new version of "Hhai/Live" at least but I always thought the sound quality on the original was real good, as were the Retrospective discs - amusing that their live recordings sound better than the studio ones

3 day residency at Cafe Oto in September:
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/magma-three-day-residency/

really bummed I had to miss the Chicago show...I happened to be moving that same day

heard they're really on fire this time around. hope a live disc comes out. I mean, what's one more

(xp) Jesus, they'll destroy the place!

Hey, this is the thread that got me into Jacqueline Thibault aka Laurence Vanay. Two more Vanay albums being reissued on CD by Lion, all worth checking out. Folk-psych-jazz-rock does nothing to explain it but it's great stuff that's hard to pin down.

Also thanks chaki!

After 3 intense years traveling the planet, Magma will not be on the road in 2018, except for an exceptional event to be announced in March. Our program is recording a new studio album. Keep posted for some new adventures.

what could this be? Zess or something new?

Oh wow, fingers crossed for studio Zess.

Also, unrelated but can we talk about how gorgeous/hypnotic "Eliphas Levi" from Merci is? Definitely a top 5 Magma track for me, and that includes the album-length epics.

Side 2 of Merci is so good. I feel like all the complaining about that album is due to "Call From the Dark" and "Do the Music", cuz the rest of it is great - "The Night We Died" is my pick for the most beautiful Magma tune ever

Also unrelated but Magma alumnus Didier Lockwood died recently, he's the guy playing ridiculous jazz-rock violin on "Live-Hhai" - recorded when he was about 17, amazingly.

Steve from Wayside music (who is usually in the know on such matters) says it's Zess

I think the band has always said Zess would be their final recorded piece, which I guess is fine...they've been around 50 years now...but still a little sad

(that said, who knows, bands say shit like that all the time)

apparently coming out in 2019 for a big 50th anniversary blowout. guessing it'll be a wrap after that.

its kind of disappointing that the band has written so little new music in the last 4 decades though I must admit the concept of them "finishing" pieces decades later is pretty fucking cool. probably my favorite Magma moment was listening to Emehntehtt-Re for the first time and hearing them work "Hhai" in there

Slag Tanz live videos are addictive.

London show next October:

http://islingtonassemblyhall.co.uk/events/magma-4th-oct-islington-assembly-hall-london-tickets/

Might try and get to that. Vander isn't going to carry on forever.

yea I can't see them going on too much past 2019 and by all indications they're going to pull out all the stops for Zess, I think this is it

It's in my manor I might go along, I saw them the last time they were in London though.

pricing plane tickets rn

wtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBI1EL6G5vY

thank you for making my day

fantastic... thank you!

holy shit just hook it to my veins

this studio version! https://xoxo-ex.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-seven-minutes

A thread on nerdy Japanese backroom musicians/producers telegraphing their obsessions via idol culture is overdue imho.

love that the cover for the single is a takeoff on Flaming Youth's "Ark" album

its like a fever dream

lol MaresNest listen to this

https://xoxo-ex.bandcamp.com/track/progressive-be-bop

Trailer for the forthcoming album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCF9-k_LnOg

getting the feeling that this is gonna be insanely good

Who says Vander doesn't have a sense of humour?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hc02vaxDow

That film title, though (think 'me want da Benjamins')… Casual racism in the service of post-May 1968 anti-capitalism. Autres temps, autres mœurs, I guess.

looks pretty fantastic actually

http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/moi-y-en-a-vouloir-des-sous-1973.html

we haven't discussed the new album much - I know it's an old piece but still, I think it's as good as K.A. or ER. the orchestra is a really nice touch.

Heads up, there's a fantastic audience recording from Toulouse '72 gone up on D1m3 for those that are interested.

holy fucking shit, thank you, i haven't been on dime in ages and never would have seen this. this is amazing, a 15 minute dotz hundin?!? i know of the rare charente tape from the same month that opens with a killer version of "undia", a great tape by a really unusual skeletal lineup, so fantastic to have more, all hail the liberators

YALL THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING

i had no fucking idea dotz hundin was ever performed outside that one time

Seems there was a big upheaval in the ranks at the end of last year - long-serving bass genius Philippe Bussonnet has been replaced with Jannick Top's son (!) and the vibes player is gone too. Several new singers have swelled the ranks though, although of course it's all on hold for a while now along with everything else.

Be aware this is two years out of date now and it's all changed again.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/631d4bfede7feaa1d54e6459f535fe75.png

Stella did some cute stuff pre-Magma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLE4AeCnpjw

https://i.imgur.com/6sx5dHL.jpg