Magma

Whatup world,

         Been a crazy transition into spring and summer and now heres the fall! Been caught up in all the madness and forgetting about sharing dank tunes for you people who may be intrested. Going to throw a few albums up for lost time and for good sake.

          Enjoy a few favorite picks of mine coming this month and lets start here first off with the early prog/jazz fusion French cult by the name of Magma, led by drummer/vocalist Christian Vander. These guys were an epic mix of overall jazz rock with a darkly influence of classical and opera ( not my thing usually either but don't be scared off yet ) and spiced it up by writing their own other worldly language called "Kobaian" from the planet of Kobaia. Vander described his music as "zhuel," meaning "celestial" in this language. This name ended up becoming their defining genre name and influenced a few other groups follow to continue "zhuel" tradition!)

         This was a huge group of 7+ dudes who didn't fuck around at all during the day, all trained musicians who were dedicated to making amazing progressive melodies and super heavy sounds a bit before its time! Cant say enough great things about these dudes, if I caught a show of these cats in the 70s it'd be beyond ridiculous. Sucks to say most dads went out and saw bands like Kiss and Ted Nugent, which is cool.....but this is pretty far out, man.

Magma

"Sowiloi." Live in Bremen 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPP4lRccPVs


Top 3 Recommended Albums by Magma

-Inedits
-Live
-Udu Wudu

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           Yo to you certain people of the world, Two years later....I've decided to start posting my favorite LP listens from my personal collection of 70s greatness. Expect much fusion, prog, synthbased shit. Yaknow, the beginning of experimenting with electronics and instruments is wonderful thing. combining the two was a ridiculous progression in the music world. Expect to learn and hear tons of early electronic madness.... Im going to start this one off with something that's new to me and my wall of great listens. Found it today down in Providence hooked up by my old jazz friend Steve, he said "You would like that off-stuff...." as I hand him this silver shined LP with a man with thick rimmed glasses staring at you. It turns out to be a harder find, being on 1750 Arch; a self-run label by the artist himself and a few close others. Of course Steve didnt know these things and just gave a listen; it was a little too new jazz for him. Nothing that Discogs won't do for the unaware seeking awareness. This is one and the best of the few jazz funk/fusion spiritual LPs by a keyboardist named Denny Zeitlin; with drummer George Marsh and bassist Mel Graves partnered aside him. This is hands down out the the 50 top keyboard jams i've heard, and I just bought this record. Enjoy "Expansion."

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