''Ẁurdah Ïtah'' is the fourth studio album by French

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band

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. The album was originally released on 15 June 1974 under the name ''Tristan et Iseult'' as a Christian Vander solo studio film soundtrack. The soundtrack was for Yvan Lagrange's 1972

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film ''Tristan et Iseult''. The album was recorded by a core quartet of Magma members (only consisting of drums, bass, piano, and vocals). It was re-released on Magma's label Seventh Records in 1989 with the Magma logo on its cover, and ever since, it has been retrospectively contextualised as a Magma album. ''Ẁurdah Ïtah'' (which translates from

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roughly as ''Dead Earth'') is the second part of the Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogy. It is preceded by ''

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'' (''Time of Hatred''), which is only available on live albums, including '' Retrospektïẁ (Parts I+II)'' (1981), and '' Trilogie Theusz Hamtaahk (Concert du Trianon)'' (2001), and succeeded by ''

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 ...

'' (1973).

Track listing

Source: Seventh Records, Discogs

Personnel

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 ...

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* Klaus Blasquiz – vocals, percussion *

Jannick Top Jannick "Janik" Top is a French bass player and composer, born in Marseille. Top plays the electric bass and the cello. In the 1970s, he was a lead member of the influential zeuhl band Magma, along with Christian Vander and Didier Lockwood. On ...

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* Christian Vander –

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, vocals

Literature

References

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