MAGMA - rfi

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

Fair deal

new stuff coming Oct 7? I thought Zess was supposed to be their final album? anyone have a clue what this is?

https://www.facebook.com/zeuhlwortzmekanik/posts/578689800285739

Preview track up from the oddly-titled new album Kãrtëhl. Sounds upbeat!

https://seventhrecordsmagma.bandcamp.com/album/k-rt-hl

Maybe cuz this (and at least one other track) are from the Attahk era? I wonder what the rest sounds like. Only listened to a minute of the preview track (cuz let’s face it, I’m buying this no matter what) and it’s nice

Wow the preview track is great, reminds me of Félicité Thösz. Was hoping they would return to the more melodic, optimistic vibe of that one.

Bandcamp page is still up but the preview track and buying options seem to have disappeared

anyone got it yet? my copy is still on order but it looks like some people got theirs weeks ago

The Quietus reviewed it, they seem pretty high on it

https://thequietus.com/articles/32113-magma-krthl-review

if it's really somewhere between Attahk & FT I suspect I'm gonna like it very much

oh yeah it's nice. I actually hear echoes of a lot of Magma albums on this. the band itself sounds a bit like Offering, real jazzy and smooth. it's recorded really well too. this is how I wish they were recording Vander's drums from the start. lets see what else. one of the tracks opens with what sounds like the entire band making turkey noises. I love it. "Dehnde" is the track that sounds like what Magma would've done after Attahk. I also think this is the first Magma album you could probably play in mixed company. it just sounds really great. my only complaint is the vinyl itself which is a 2xLP when the album itself could easily fit on one. it's cool that the demos are there but you don't really need them. it's not like they were anywhere near complete at that stage. on the other hand I guess showing what these tracks evolved from 45 years ago is pretty cool. just not worth the extra LP. whatever. the music rules.

also got the lps over the weekend. agreed on the smooth, polished sound and this being a generally good thing. its pretty evocative music, something like a jazzy lost morricone score to an italian 70s police procedural. or something.

initially this feels like this might be the best since Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré but i gotta spend some more time with it.

they sound like Setna now. who of course draw a lot from Magma. I mean this could've been on the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjESCC_nkQ

just noticed that the new bassist is Jimmy Top, who I assume is the son of Jannick Top. or maybe the brother of Jimmy Pop??

I never thought that I would hear any music ever again that sounded like "Supertzar" off of Sabotage, like a mass offered up to the Elder Gods or some shit…but goddamned if that's not what Mekanik Destruktiw Kommndoh sounds like… one almost wonders if Tony heard Magma, much less this record…very very unlikely…

new video?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmgJkEajQUo

RIP Brian Godding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0TwBJ8gf0

listening to the best album of all time, merci

i mean all-time for "otis" alone

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