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Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
''Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh'', also abbreviated as ''MDK'', is the third studio album by French band Magma, released on 6 May 1973. Magma's original recording of the composition that makes up the album was refused by the record company at the time, but was eventually released as '' Mekanïk Kommandöh'' in 1989. ''MDK'' is the group's most famous and acclaimed record. The French edition of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine named the album the 33rd greatest French rock album. In 2015, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the album 24th on its list of the '50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time'. History The title ''Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh'' had gone through a longer, almost two-year, development phase before it was fully developed and first recorded in the studio. From the early stages of the work comes a recording from the summer of 1971, which appeared in the park of Château d'Hérouville as '' Mekanïk Kommandöh'' in a 5:55-minute version on the jazz themed compilation ' ... [...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] |