After losing guitar player Claude ENGEL, and regenerating his
brass section with the arrival of Jeff SEFFER on saxes and Louis TOESCA in
trumpet, MAGMA entered the studio, in 1971, to record its second album,
"1001° CENTIGRADES".
Everything that made "KOBAIA" so original and grand is still intact in this
second opus, better yet, everything is magnified.
If the two pieces composed respectively by Teddy LASRY and François
CAHEN sometimes let through a jazz tendency , it is on "RIAH SAHILTAAHK"
where it develops with a greater force than on the preceding album.
This over twenty-minute long Christian VANDER composition stuns for its richness
and incredible number of themes as well as for the perfectly disciplined
violence of its rhythmic force; this allows to admire the amplitude
and the diversity of the brass section work, whose role diminishes progresively
as time goes on.
Because of its length, "RIAH SAHILTAAHK" precedes would-be-masterpieces like
"MEKANIK", "KOHNTARKOSZ" or "THEUSZ HAMTAAHK".
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