''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré'' is the tenth studio album by French rock band Magma. 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, ''

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'', ''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 ''

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'' (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 ''

'', '' 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.

Track listing

Personnel

Magma * Christian Vander – drums, vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboard, percussion *

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– vocals, percussion * Isabelle Feuillebois – vocals * Hervé Aknin – vocals * Benoît Alziary – vibraphone * James MacGaw – guitar * Bruno Ruder –

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

Philippe Bussonnet Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Count ...

– bass, piccolo bass With: * Claude Lamamy – vocals * Marcus Linon – vocals * Pierre-Michel Sivadier – vocals * Himiko Paganotti – vocals * Antoine Paganotti – vocals *

Emmanuel Borghi Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the cou ...

– piano

References

External links

''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré''
at www.seventhrecords.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Emehntehtt-Re Magma (band) albums 2009 albums