''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré'' is the tenth studio album by French
progressive rock
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band
Magma
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. It was released on 20 October 2009.
Parts of it have been played live since 1975 and can be found on various albums as extracts or live versions.
Included with the CD is a making-of DVD called "Phases".
Background
Like the band's previous release, ''
K.A (Köhntarkösz Anteria)'', ''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré'' is formed of material Magma wrote and performed live during the mid 1970s to 1980. Unlike ''Köhntarkösz Anteria'' however, where the album consisted entirely of unreleased material, ''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré'' is formed of both unreleased and released material from that era, the first half of the album serving as a large-scale rerecording:
* The song "Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré I" combines "Ëmëhntëht-Rê (Announcement)" from the album ''
Live/Hhaï'' (1975) and "Rindë (Eastern Song)" from the album ''
Attahk'' (1978).
* The song "Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré II" combines "Ëmëhntëht-Rê (Extrait n' deux)" (released on the 1988 CD of ''
Üdü Ẁüdü''), "Hhaï" from the album ''
Live/Hhaï'' (1975), and "Zombies (Ghost Dance)" from ''
Üdü Ẁüdü''.
The repurposing of material from other albums is because the album was always meant to consist of these songs, and they were split over numerous different albums at the time when it was clear it would not be released in its intended format.
The album belongs to a trilogy of three comprising ''
K.A (Köhntarkösz Anteria)'', ''
Köhntarkösz'', and ''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré'', called the ''Köhntarkösz Trilogy''. The album's content tells the story of Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré, murdered in antiquity. The figure from the previous two albums, Köhntarkösz, finds his tomb and has a grand, vivid vision of Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré's life, who eventually takes over his body and becomes anew, fulfilling the prophecy and ending the trilogy's story.
''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré'' is sung almost entirely in Magma's
constructed language
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Kobaïan
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, apart from some words in English ("To believe in God", "He's got a love supreme" and "No more then...").
Track listing
Personnel
Magma
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Christian Vander – drums, vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboard, percussion
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Stella Vander
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Early years
Born in Paris into a family of Polish immigrants, she began writing music in the early sixties together with ...
– vocals, percussion
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Isabelle Feuillebois – vocals
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Hervé Aknin – vocals
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Benoît Alziary – vibraphone
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James MacGaw – guitar
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Bruno Ruder –
Fender Rhodes
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– bass, piccolo bass
With:
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Claude Lamamy – vocals
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Marcus Linon – vocals
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Pierre-Michel Sivadier – vocals
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Himiko Paganotti – vocals
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Antoine Paganotti – vocals
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Emmanuel Borghi
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 progr ...
– piano
Literature
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References
External links
''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré''at www.seventhrecords.com
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Magma (band) albums
2009 albums