', alternative title ''2'', is the second album by French rock band

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, released on 5 October

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. Future reissues use both titles as ''2: ''. The first track, "Rïah Sahïltaahk", was later re-recorded as a full-length studio album, ''

Rïah Sahïltaahk ''Rïah Sahïltaahk'' is the twelfth studio album by French band Magma, released on 15 September 2014. Background The song "Rïah Sahïltaahk" was featured on the band's second studio album ''1001° Centigrades'' in their early period of acti ...

'', in 2014, as Christian Vander did not consider himself satisfied with the arrangement on this album. The backside of the original record sleeve contains Christian Vander’s poem ‘Ïtah’ as well as a French translation, making it one of two official Kobaïan-French translations by the band itself.

Background

For this album,

Track listing

Legacy

On ' the "

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" sound that later came to define Magma develops, but it lacks the operatic female vocals and primal driving rhythm of the following album, ''

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''. Between the release of this album and ''

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'', a number of band members left the band due to disagreements on its future sound. Two (saxophonist Yochk'o Seffer and keyboardist François Cahen) left to form Zao, a band which follows in the footsteps of Magma's first two releases.

Musicians

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– vocals, percussion *

Teddy Lasry Teddy is an English language given name, usually a hypocorism of Edward or Theodore or Theodora. It may refer to: People Nickname * Teddy Atlas (born 1956), American boxing trainer and fight commentator * Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Oly ...

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* Yochk'o Seffer – saxophone,

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

* François Cahen – acoustic &

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s *

Francis Moze Francis Moze (born 2 February 1946) is a French bass player and pianist, best known for his work in Magma, Gong and Pierre Moerlen's Gong. Moze played in an early line-up with Magma. When he left the group, Giorgio Gomelsky introduced him to Gong ...

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* Christian Vander –

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drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

Production

* Produced by Roland Hilda * Engineered by Dominique Blanc-Francard * Louis Sarkissian –

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Literature

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1001 Degrees Centigrades 1971 albums Jazz fusion albums by French artists Magma (band) albums Philips Records albums