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Title Time Author

1 - KOBAÏA 10:09 C. Vander

2 - AÏNA 6:15 C. Vander

3 - MALARIA 4:20 C. Vander

4 - SOHIA 7:41 T.Lasry

5 - SCKXYSS 2:47 F.Cahen

6 - AURAË 10:52 C. Vander

7 - THAUD ZAÏA 7:00 C.Engel

8 - NAU EKTILA 12:55 L.Thibault

9 - STOAH 8:08 C. Vander

10 - MUH

11:17 C. Vander

Info

Recorded on April 1970 in EUROPA SONOR (Paris) by Roger ROCHE and Claude MARTELOT.

Musician Instrument

Klaus BLASQUIZ singing

François CAHEN piano

Francis MOZE bass, electric contrabass

Christian VANDER drums, vocals

Teddy LASRY soprano saxophone, flute, wind instruments

Alain CHARLERY "Paco" trumpet, percussion

Claude ENGEL guitars, flute, vocals

Richard RAUX

alto & tenor saxophones, flute

Notes

At the end of the 60's, an era in which everyone seemed to be put up with the total anglo-saxon hegemony over the french music of the period, Christian VANDER founded the group MAGMA and affirms his will to produce a different kind of music, of primarily European identity. With "KOBAIA", the first double album of the group, released in 1970, he attains this objective beyond any hope.
A " Cry " of revolt and hatred against this Earth which chokes and conditions man, the music of MAGMA synthesizes the most various influences: STRAVINSKY, BARTOK, COLTRANE, BACH, jazz, rock and roll, rhythm' and blues... to produce a completely new musical language which, if it can appear diverting with the first listening, is not long in revealing unsuspected splendours.
Even thought the instrumentation of the group is rather traditional, it is its use which gives this disc its "revolutionary " character: a relentless rhythm section, with the a completely reconsidered binary play ; a tsunami-like brass section with a interplay yet unseen; and this particular singing which uses an invented language, as to tell us that, from now on nothing would be like before.


Title	Time	Author
1 - KOBAÏA	10:09	C. Vander
2 - AÏNA	6:15	C. Vander
3 - MALARIA	4:20	C. Vander
4 - SOHIA	7:41	T.Lasry
5 - SCKXYSS	2:47	F.Cahen
6 - AURAË	10:52	C. Vander
7 - THAUD ZAÏA	7:00	C.Engel
8 - NAU EKTILA	12:55	L.Thibault
9 - STOAH	8:08	C. Vander
10 - MUH	11:17	C. Vander
Info
Recorded on April 1970 in EUROPA SONOR (Paris) by Roger ROCHE and Claude MARTELOT.

Musician	Instrument
Klaus BLASQUIZ	singing
François CAHEN	piano
Francis MOZE	bass, electric contrabass
Christian VANDER	drums, vocals
Teddy LASRY	soprano saxophone, flute, wind instruments
Alain CHARLERY "Paco"	trumpet, percussion
Claude ENGEL	guitars, flute, vocals
Richard RAUX	alto & tenor saxophones, flute
Notes
At the end of the 60's, an era in which everyone seemed to be put up with the total anglo-saxon hegemony over the french music of the period, Christian VANDER founded the group MAGMA and affirms his will to produce a different kind of music, of primarily European identity. With "KOBAIA", the first double album of the group, released in 1970, he attains this objective beyond any hope. A " Cry " of revolt and hatred against this Earth which chokes and conditions man, the music of MAGMA synthesizes the most various influences: STRAVINSKY, BARTOK, COLTRANE, BACH, jazz, rock and roll, rhythm' and blues... to produce a completely new musical language which, if it can appear diverting with the first listening, is not long in revealing unsuspected splendours. Even thought the instrumentation of the group is rather traditional, it is its use which gives this disc its "revolutionary " character: a relentless rhythm section, with the a completely reconsidered binary play ; a tsunami-like brass section with a interplay yet unseen; and this particular singing which uses an invented language, as to tell us that, from now on nothing would be like before.