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Félicité Thösz
''Félicité Thösz'' is the eleventh studio album by French band Magma, released on 3 July 2012. Background The album was Magma's first studio release in 27 years to contain new material written after the band's reformation in 1996. "Félicité Thösz" was written during 2001-02 by Christian Vander, but only played live by the band from 2009. "Les hommes sont venus" was written and performed in 1992 by Les Voix De Magma, and again in 1995 for the band's 25th anniversary, then called "Tous Ensemble". ''Félicité Thösz'' is sung almost entirely in Magma's constructed language Kobaïan, apart from a passage in French named "Seule une fleur est venue au fond des bois en mon cœur (âme)". Track listing Personnel * Christian Vander – drums, vocals, percussion, glockenspiel (11), clavier (11) * 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 ... [...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] |
Zeuhl
Zeuhl (pronounced zœl meaning "Celestial") is a music genre that is a hybrid of jazz fusion, symphonic rock and neoclassical music, established in 1969 by the French band Magma. The term comes from Kobaïan, the fictional language created by Magma's Christian Vander and Klaus Blasquiz for Magma, in which ''Zeuhl Ẁortz'' means approximately "Celestial Force". Characteristics The musical roots of zeuhl go back to pioneers of the free jazz movement such as John Coltrane and folkloristic echoes and influences from Carl Orff's work. Zeuhl is determined by several characteristic elements. Especially important are dominant rhythm fractions, usually in the form of a pumping bass guitar and sometimes sluggish or flexibly playing drum kits. Slow repetitive structures that serve to build a hypnotic atmosphere are just as prominent as solo passages of high technical finesse. Vocals are often widely present and can consist of polyphonic choral movements, such as Carl Orff's '' Carm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
''Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré'' is the tenth studio album by French progressive 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, '' 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)" (rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prog (magazine)
''Prog'' is a British magazine dedicated to progressive rock music, published by Future plc, Future. The magazine, which is edited by Jerry Ewing, was launched in March 2009 as a spin-off from ''Classic Rock (magazine), Classic Rock'' and covers both past and present artists. Other current staff are Natasha Scharf (Deputy Editor), Russell Fairbrother (Art Editor), Julian Marszalek (News Editor), and Dave Everley (Album Reviews Editor). History and profile ''Prog'' is published by Future, who are also responsible for its "sister" publications ''Classic Rock'' and ''Metal Hammer''. ''Prog'' was published nine times per year until 2012, when its frequency was switched to ten times a year. According to ''The Guardian'' in 2010, the magazine was selling 22,000 copies an issue, half the circulation of the ''NME''. Journalist and broadcaster Gavin Esler described it in 2014 as "one of the few music magazines I can think of whose circulation is healthy". On 19 December 2016, TeamRock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Voix De Magma
''Les Voix de Magma'' (also known as ''"Les Voix" Concert 1992 Douarnenez'' or ''Akt I'') is a live album by French rock band Magma. The tracks were recorded live at the Festival Jazz en Baie in Douarnenez on 2 August 1992 and featuring vocal-heavy, largely acoustic reworkings of well-known pieces by Magma and Christian Vander's Offering. It was released in 1992 on Akt Records. AllMusic described the album as "an attempt to resurrect his early material for a new generation of listeners." Track listing # "Ëmëhntëht-Rê" - 3:39 (C. Vander) # "C'est Pour Nous" - 7:56 (C. Vander) # "Zëss (Extrait)" - 17:18 (C. Vander) # "Ẁurdah Ïtah" - 15:46 (C. Vander) Personnel * Christian Vander - vocals, piano, drums * Stella Vander - vocals * Addie Déat - vocals * Julie Vander - vocals * Bénédicte Ragu - vocals * Isabelle Feuillebois - vocals * Jean-Christophe Gamet - vocals * Alex Ferrand - vocals * Pierre-Michel Sivadier - keyboards * Simon Goubert - piano, keyboards * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobaïan
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
