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Köhntarkösz
''Köhntarkösz'' is the fifth studio album by French band Magma, released on 10 September 1974. The title piece of the album forms a section of the ''Köhntarkösz'' cycle. Although first in order of release, it has now been formulated as the second part in a trilogy consisting of '' K.A. (Köhntarkösz Anteria)'', ''Köhntarkösz'', and '' Ëmëhntëhtt-Rê''. "Coltrane Sündia" (translation: "Coltrane Rest in Peace") is an elegy for John Coltrane. Track listing ;Side one # "Köhntarkösz (Part I)" ( Christian Vander) – 15:22 # "Ork Alarm" (Jannick Top) – 5:28 ;Side two # "Köhntarkösz (Part II)" (C. Vander) – 15:55 # "Coltrane Sündïa" (C. Vander) – 4:11 Personnel ;Musicians * Klaus Blasquiz – vocals, percussion * Stella Vander – vocals * Gerard Bikialo – pianos, Yamaha organ * Michel Graillier – pianos, clavinet * Brian Godding – guitar * Jannick "Janik" Top – bass, cello, vocals, piano * Christian Vander – drums, vocals, piano, percussion ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magma (band)
Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by self-taught drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. The style of progressive rock that Vander developed with Magma is termed " Zeuhl", and has been applied to other bands in France operating in the same period, and to some recent Japanese bands. Vander created a fictional language, Kobaïan, in which most lyrics are sung. In a 1977 interview with Vander and long-time Magma vocalist Klaus Blasquiz, Blasquiz said that Kobaïan is a "phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages to be able to express some things musically. The language has of course a content, but not word by word." Vander himself has said, "When I wrote, the sounds f Kobaïancame naturally with it—I didn't intellectualise the process by saying 'Ok, now I'm going to write some words in a particular language', it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live/Hhaï
''Live/Hhaï'' (also known as ''Magma Live'', ''Live Köhntark'', and ''Hhaï Live'') is the first live album and fifth album in total by French rock group Magma. It was recorded in Paris between the 1st and 5 June 1975 at the Taverne de l'Olympia, and was first released in 1975. The album has been re-released many times: in 1975 on Utopia Records, in 1978 on Tomato Records, 1989 and 2009 on Seventh (the band's own label), 2001 on Victor, and 1996 and 2001 on Charly. The original album is available as a single cd and a remixed version with two bonus tracks is available as a two cd set. It is widely regarded as one of the band's seminal releases. The track titles were slightly altered due to copyright restrictions on the preceding albums. The first two tracks are the title track from ''Köhntarkösz'' (1974). "Ëmëhntëht-Rê (Announcement)" and "Hhaï" were eventually incorporated into the complete composition ''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré''. "Kobah" is a rearranged version of "Kobaïa" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Godding
Brian Godding (19 August 1945 – 25 November 2023) was a Welsh pop, rock and jazz rock guitarist. He was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Blossom Toes and was also a member of the jazz rock big band Centipede. Biography Godding was born on 19 August 1945 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, South Wales. He died on 25 November 2023, at the age of 78. He was a brother-in-law of English singer and actress Julie Driscoll. Work In the early 1980s Godding contributed to three albums by Kevin Coyne: ''Bursting Bubbles'' (1980), ''Sanity Stomp'' (1980) and '' Pointing the Finger'' (1981). Regarding his 1988 solo album ''Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue'', Dave Wayne in the ''New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock'', said: Reviewing the same album for the ''Dorset Echo'', Marco Rossi said: Godding was featured in 'Crossing Bridges', a 1983 music programme based around jazz guitar improvisation, and broadcast by Channel 4. Writing for dmme.net after his death in 2023, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Gomelsky
Giorgio Sergio Alessando Gomelsky (28 February 1934 – 13 January 2016) was a filmmaker, impresario, music manager, songwriter (as Oscar Rasputin) and record producer. He was born in Georgia, grew up in Switzerland, and later lived in the United Kingdom and the United States. He owned the Crawdaddy Club in London where the Rolling Stones were the house band, and he was involved with their early management. He hired the Yardbirds as a replacement and managed them. He was also their producer from the beginning through 1966. In 1967, he started Marmalade Records (distributed by Polydor), which featured Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll and the Trinity, Blossom Toes, and early recordings by Graham Gouldman, and Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who all became part of 10cc. The label closed in 1969. Gomelsky was also instrumental in the careers of Soft Machine, Daevid Allen and Gong, Magma and Material. Early years Gomelsky was born in Tiflis (modern day Tbilisi), Georgia. His fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ẁurdah Ïtah
''Ẁurdah Ïtah'' is the fourth studio album by French progressive rock band Magma. The album was originally released on 15 June 1974 under the name ''Tristan et Iseult'' as a Christian Vander solo studio film soundtrack. The soundtrack was for Yvan Lagrange's 1972 avant-garde film ''Tristan et Iseult''. The album was recorded by a core quartet of Magma members (only consisting of drums, bass, piano, and vocals). It was re-released on Magma's label Seventh Records in 1989 with the Magma logo on its cover, and ever since, it has been retrospectively contextualised as a Magma album. ''Ẁurdah Ïtah'' (which translates from Kobaïan roughly as ''Dead Earth'') is the second part of the Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogy. It is preceded by ''Theusz Hamtaahk'' (''Time of Hatred''), which is only available on live albums, including '' Retrospektïẁ (Parts I+II)'' (1981), and '' Trilogie Theusz Hamtaahk (Concert du Trianon)'' (2001), and succeeded by ''Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Vander (musician)
Christian Vander (born 21 February 1948) is a French drummer, composer, singer and founder of the progressive rock band Magma. Career Vander is known for his extended compositions, drumming, and shrill falsetto improvisational/scat singing. His music fuses jazz, rock, classical and operatic influences, and draws on the work of musicians as diverse as John Coltrane and Carl Orff. Vander regards Coltrane as his greatest musical inspiration, and dedicated his 2011 album ''John Coltrane L'Homme Suprême'' to him as a tribute. Personal life Christian Vander is the adopted child of famous French jazz piano player Maurice Vander (who was a long time sideman of singer Claude Nougaro). Most of Vander and Magma's recorded work is still available through Vander's own record label, Seventh Records. He was married to singer Stella Vander who released many EPs herself in the 1960s and has performed vocal duties for Magma since 1972. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Albums
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a Metapolitefsi, parliamentary republic and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magma (band) Albums
Magma () is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Magma (sometimes colloquially but incorrectly referred to as ''lava'') is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and evidence of magmatism has also been discovered on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites. Besides molten rock, magma may also contain suspended crystals and gas bubbles. Magma is produced by melting of the mantle or the crust in various tectonic settings, which on Earth include subduction zones, continental rift zones, mid-ocean ridges and hotspots. Mantle and crustal melts migrate upwards through the crust where they are thought to be stored in magma chambers or trans-crustal crystal-rich mush zones. During magma's storage in the crust, its composition may be modified by fractional crystallization, contamination with crustal melts, magma mixing, and degassing. Following its ascent through the crust, magma may feed a volcano and be extruded as lava, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Graillier
Michel Graillier (18 October 1946, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, February 2003, Paris) was a French jazz pianist. Biography From the ages of four to eighteen, Graillier studied classical piano in Lens, France. During adolescence, he worked as a drummer with the amateur yéyé group, Les Chaps ("The Guys"). After some preparatory classes, he enrolled in the engineering school at the ISEN in Lille, where he met the bassist Didier Levallet through whom he discovered jazz. In 1968, with a diploma in electrical engineering, he moved to Paris. He played in clubs, most notably at the Caméléon, in a trio with Aldo Romano and Jean-François Jenny-Clark. He made his first recording in 1969 with Steve Lacy. For three years, he accompanied violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. His first album for Agartha Records appeared in 1970, on which he was accompanied by Alby Cullaz and Bernard Lubat. During the same year, he recorded ''Pianos Puzzle'' with Georges Arvanitas, René Urtreger, and Maurice Vander. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Vander
Stella Vander (born Stella Zelcer, also known as Stella; 12 December 1950) is a French singer, musician and record producer. Early years Born in Paris into a family of Polish immigrants, she began writing music in the early sixties together with her uncle Maurice Chorenslup. Their songs were parodies of the Yé-yé style that was popular at the time. Stella's first Extended play, EP, which included "Pourquoi pas moi", was released in November 1963, when she was twelve. In 1966, "Un air du folklore Auvergnat" ("a folk song from Auvergne", mocking Sheila (French singer), Sheila's "Le Folklore Américain") increased her fame, followed by protests by the Auvergnat association—which took the lyrics seriously. Her take on music was "engagingly sarcastic". 1966's ''Beatnicks D'Occasion'' targeted weekend scenesters. Her final record as Stella was released in 1967. "I wasn't even 17 yet, but I just said 'Ok, pfft. Leave it. Magma She married Magma (band), Magma drummer Christian Vande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jannick Top
Jannick "Janik" Top is a French bass player and composer, born in Marseille. Top plays the electric bass and the cello. In the 1970s, he was a lead member of the influential zeuhl band Magma, along with Christian Vander and Didier Lockwood. On some Magma albums, he appears under his Kobaïan name: ''Ẁahrğenuhr Reuğhelemësteh''.Liner Notes CD: ''Archiw I-II'' ('' Sudio Zünd'' (2008)), p. 34. From 1977 to 1980, he played in the popular electronic project Space. Since then, he has worked with many other musicians, including session work for Michel Berger, France Gall, Richard Cocciante, Bonnie Tyler, Eurythmics, Ray Charles, Céline Dion as well as live playing and musical direction for shows, including Johnny Hallyday and Starmania. In association with Serge Perathoner, keyboardist, he has also done a variety of film and advertisement music. See also * Magma Magma () is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Magma (sometim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elegy
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to ''The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy'', "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead". History The Greek term ἐλεγείᾱ (''elegeíā''; from , , ‘lament’) originally referred to any verse written in elegiac couplets and covering a wide range of subject matter (death, love, war). The term also included epitaphs, sad and mournful songs, and commemorative verses. The Latin elegy of ancient Roman literature was most often erotic or mythological in nature. Because of its structural potential for rhetorical effects, the elegiac couplet was also used by both Greek and Roman poets for witty, humorous, and satirical subject matter. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
