Powerful, hypnotic, unclassifiable, incomparables. MAGMA are in a class of their own. Finally, music to set the cat among the pigeons... Magma are the dynamite that will explode the conventions of a music scene that is becoming rather too self-satisfied with its own beauty... Magma are unlike anything that has gone before...

So people were saying in 1970.

In 2015, nearly half a century later, this is truer than ever and the new mini-album Slag Tanz (pronounced schlag tanz), this veritable symphony of jazz metal that has erupted from nowhere, radiates with all Magma s singular intensity!

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RÏAH SAHÏLTAAHK is the name of the Kobaïan who left after all the others, despite their disapproval. He thought he was better than anyone else and he was sure he could convert Kobaïa’s enemies to the Kobaïan spirit. But he failed and left alone for Kobaïa. On the symbolic stop-over planet, Malaria, he has to face the raging elements he thinks he can dominate. With his ship almost sunk, he ends up begging them… to no avail. He will disappear. Drowned, swept away by the frenzied elements. After the noise… silence. At dawn, only a finally calmed remains, enlightened by the soft beams of the sun in this new day.

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Live performances at The Triton (July 2013 4, 5 &

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Concerts from June 30 to July 2, 2011 et The Triton.

Attahk (Rétrovision)
Rïah Sahïltaahk
Dondaï
Félicité Thösz
Slag Tanz
Maahnt

Words and music : Christian Vander
120 minutes

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Having emerged unscathed from STAR WARS, don't just sit there waiting for the end of the world. Take a leap into the MAGMA Universe and grab their new studio album which is not to be missed under any circumstances: a trip which will lead you from Japan to the Urals via Central Asia with a detour to pay homage to Tamla Motown.

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John Coltrane, l'homme suprême : this record was recorded, day after day, between July 17, the date on which he departed, and July 21, the day on which his funeral was held. On each day, an offering, a musical, poetic gift, for him, created in real time. On the 21st at midnight, the record was completed.

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Stella speaks of dreams, children, love, innocence, light... After many years sharing the spotlight with Christian Vander, she steps up and takes center stage.

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While you wait for a new recording we can offer you a remastered re-release, in double digipack format, of the 2 albums recorded by the Christian Vander trio in 1990 and 1993.

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Recorded on July 23, 1983 at the Antibes Jazz Festival. Studio bonus recorded at UZ Studio in february 1988.
Christian Vander (drums), Alby Cullaz (double bass), Michel Graillier (piano).

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At the doors of immortality, dreams the Great Servant of Ptah, God of creation drifting infinitely within his own mind, as he tries to awaken Him.
In its message, as in its genesis and its making, Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré is an intimate epic, an occult stride forward, a quest for the sublime.

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This album, which is only released in Japan and which will not be released in any other version, documents two different shows from their 2005 Japanese tour. The first disc is the complete Kontarkosz Anteria (K.A.) which is by the long lived and fantastic line-up of Magma that existed during the 00s (Christian Vander, Stella Vander, James Mac Gaw, Emmanuel Borghi, Frederic d'Oelsnitz, Philippe Bussonnet, Isabelle Feuillebois, Antoine Paganotti, Himiko Paganotti) and has since broken up with a mostly new line-up taking their place. A great piece and a great performance. The second disc is potentially even more interesting, as it presents Les Voix de Magma performing Theusz Hamtaahk, Wurdah Itah and M.D.K.

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Seventh Records reissues the album TO LOVE, which has been remastered, in a digipack sleeve.

For some people, Vander’s name is always and uniquely associated with "Magma". The drummer’s musical journey has lead him from the craziest impulses to the search for purity, for the essence of music as it springs out, reverential, bare , recorded at its moment of creation.
(Jazz Hot)

With "To Love", you discover the roots of Magma and of all its musical adventures. After all these years, there can be no further doubt about the sincerity and the authentic genius of this self-taught musician, who emerges quite alone from a widespread musical nothingness. An uncompromising, arid album, a music of monastic purity which, as it were in front of our faces, succeeds in reproducing that unique sensation that is the birth of an oeuvre.
(Rock & Folk)

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The full set of 9 incredible studio albums – from Kobaia to K.A – re-telling the story of MAGMA in 9 detailed chapters with a bonus double CD of archive documents.

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AKT 15 is the latest and long awaited document of the AKT series. While chosen for their rich and original musical content, rather than strictly technical qualities per se, these archives are a testament to the astounding talent of cult band Magma during its soon-to-be 40 years of career.

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MAGMA is now :

Christian VANDER drums, voice	Stella VANDER voice	Isabelle FEUILLEBOIS voice	Hervé AKNIN voice	Bruno RUDER keyboards
	Benoît ALZIARY vibraphone, keyboards	James MAC GAW guitar	Philippe BUSSONNET bass

The last in the « Myths & Legends » series of DVDs, EPOK 4 brings this brilliant retrospective cycle, covering 35 years of musical creativity, to an end.

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Recorded May 26, 27 & 28 at Le Triton. Following the epic, the third volume lays it out with Köhntarkösz, the 1973 masterpiece which was a decisive turning point in the development of the Vander odyssey.

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"Mythes et Légendes Epok 2" available from November 15th for the PAL version and on November 27th for the NTSC version.

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BACK TO THE TRITON, 2005

May 2005 Magma took over Paris venue ‘The Triton’ for 4 weeks with an ambitious, over the top project – a retrospective of 35 years of Magma music showcasing some of the best known pieces from the years 1970 to the present.
This is the first of a series of 4 DVDs which capture these unforgettable moments for posterity, where the joy of playing this outstanding music is only equalled by the rapturous response of the audience.

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After five albums as the leader of a regular band - a quintet or a quartet - had the time come for Simon Goubert to use other facets of his talent.
"et après", which is a really original record, stands out from the present jazz production; an album which offers new and different things, from which emerge a palpable maturity and plenitude when you listen to it.

So. After 20 years of evading the point Christian Vander has finally deigned to the return to the masterwork style which brought us all to his door in the first place. With our tongues hanging out. Of all the many noble attempts of the prog rockers to create a grand compositional style which blended elements from classical music with rock, none, in my view, ever reached the intensity, complexity and raw savage excitement of the great Magma masterworks such as M.D.K, Kohntarkosz, Theusz Hamtaahk, etc..

With « Le cœur allant vers » her new album, Stella transports you into the quiet dimensions of reflective space where ordinary emotions are transcended.These delicate hand-crafted mini masterpieces will carry you away on butterfly wings of pure radiant pleasure. Mellow out with these bittersweet stories of love’s melancholic rapture. The magic moment, the epiphany caught in sound.