Zao was a

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

zeuhl 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 ...

band that was founded by two ex-members of

Magma Magma () is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Magma is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and evidence of magmatism has also been discovered on other terrestrial planets and some natural sa ...

: Yochk'o Seffer (

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

) and François Cahen (

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

). They were active from 1971 to 1994 and released six studio albums. In 1976, Magma violinist

Didier Lockwood Didier Lockwood (11 February 1956 – 18 February 2018) was a French violinist. He played in the French rock band Magma in the 1970s, and was known for his use of electric amplification and his experimentation with different sounds on the electri ...

also joined the band and appeared on their albums '' Kawana'' and ''Live!''. ''Live!''review at

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''Kawana''at Allmusic

Members

* Mauricia Platon – vocals * Yochk'o "Jeff" Seffer – saxophones, clarinets, vocals * François "Faton" Cahen – piano, keyboards *

– violin (1976) * Joël Dugrenot – bass * Jean-My Truong – drums * Gérard Prevost – electric bass * Piere "Ty Boum" Guignon – percussion * Michèle Margand – violin *

Marie-Françoise Viaud Marie-Françoise or Marie Françoise is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget (1900–1991), French actress * Marie Françoise Sophie Gay (1776–1852), French author * Marie-Françoise Audollent ...

– violin *

Françoise Douchet Françoise () is a French feminine given name (equivalent to the Italian Francesca) and may refer to: * Anne Françoise Elizabeth Lange (1772–1816), French actress * Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624–1711), French adventuress * Françoise Ad ...

– viola *

Claudine Lassere Claudine may refer to: Name * Claudine (given name), a feminine given name of French origin Culture * ''Claudine'' (film), a 1974 American film by John Berry ** ''Claudine'' (soundtrack), its soundtrack album. Music by Curtis Mayfield Curtis ...

– cello

Discography

* '' Z=7L'' (1973) * ''

Osiris Osiris (, from Egyptian ''wsjr'', cop, ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ , ; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓, romanized: ʾsr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was ...

'' (1975) * '' Shekina'' (1975) * '' Kawana'' (1976) * ''Live!'' (1976) * '' Typhareth'' (1977) * ''

Akhenaton Akhenaten (pronounced ), also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, ( egy, ꜣḫ-n-jtn ''ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy'', , meaning "Effective for the Aten"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dy ...

'' (1994) * ''In Tokyo'' (2007)

References

External links

*
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at the New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock Zeuhl French musical groups Jazz fusion ensembles Musical groups established in 1971 Musical groups from Paris {{France-band-stub