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"TO CREATE MUSIC WHICH DEFIES TIME, WE HAVE PLEDGED OUR MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL BEING TO MAGMA, TO UNÏẀERÏA ZEKT, AND TO THE KREUHN KÖHRMAHN FOR THE REST..."
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Emerging from the insular obscurity of 1960s French rock and roll, Magma stormed the music world as if invading from another planet. As bandleader Christian Vander testified, Magma was a concept inspired by another world: Kobaia. Kobaia, the Celestial Planet, the planet where the "Univeria Zekt" is promised. Magma sings as the bards of the "Zeuhl Wortz" or the genre "Zeuhl". Zeuhl is the "Celestial Music" of Magma's unsettling universe. It is a concussive universe of screams, zealotry, and command which form a surreal beauty. The surreal world of Earth, Kobaia, and Ork forms through Magma's music.
Magma is often heralded as the "Master" of Progressive Rock. Though, the Zeuhl which Magma sings is a unique strand of Prog Rock. Zeuhl is an alien symphony both Romantic and futuristic. Magma is a band which preforms with great dissonance and great mastery. There is a certain philosophy and story the band has formed over more than 50 years of performance. So how does Magma tell of the universe from the Pharaoh in Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré, to a ruined Earth in Kobaïa, to the universe's own end in the performance of Zëss?
"And nothing - no, nothing! - will stop us!"
#Magma - #Magmaband - #progrock
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Music:
Magma - "Unnamed Track (from ""Moi Y En A Vouloir Des Sous")" (00:00-01:02)
Frank Klepacki (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "Sand Excursion" (01:02-03:44)
Frédéric Chopin - "Galop Marquis", performed by Aya Higuchi (03:44-03:54)
David Arkenstone (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "The Machine" (03:54-08:32)
Frank Klepacki (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "The Overseer" (08:32-13:38)
Frank Klepacki (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "The War Begins" (13:38-18:04)
Frank Klepacki (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "Assassination Attempt" (18:04-22:06)
David Arkenstone (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "Surrounded" (22:07-27:03)
Frank Klepacki (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "The Spice Must Flow" (27:03-31:35)
Jarrid Mendelson (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "Ordos Control" (31:25-35:20)
Frank Klepacki (Dune 2000 OST) - "The Atreides Gain" (35:20-36:19)
Frank Klepacki (Dune 2000 OST) - "Fremen" (36:19-40:36)
Frank Klepacki (Dune 2000 OST) - "Land of Sand" (40:36-45:20)
Frank Klepacki (Dune 2000 OST) - "The Ambush" (45:20-49:22)
David Arkenstone (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "Legacy" (49:22-54:35)
Frank Klepacki (Dune 2000 OST) - "Plotting" (54:35-58:57)
David Arkenstone (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "Victory Is Inevitable" (58:57-1:03:48)
Frank Klepacki (Dune 2000 OST) - "Assembling the Troops" (1:03:48-1:11:18)
Frank Klepacki (Dune 2000 OST) - "Infiltrating HK" (1:11:18-1:16:03)
David Arkenstone (Emperor: Battle for Dune OST) - "Unstoppable" (1:16:03-1:17:26)
Christian Vander - "Ptah" (1:17:26-1:17:59)
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@Z-eb 2 года назад

The"un-named" song is called Dotz Hundin ! (Mekanic Zain from "Hhai/Live" 1975 is the M.D.K. Part Two Portion after Nebehr Gudaht Speaks to the Kobaian People) Very Intresting video, but tons of errors in it ;) Zeuhl Undazir ! (Inedits were rehearsal tapes released by Klaus Blasquiz in total frustration due to Vandere`s perfectionism, it werent seen as an official album fo years)

@miamiswacket803 2 года назад

Never expected to be recommended an hour long analysis of magma, but I certainly am not complaining

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

"It needed to exist eventually," - Christian Vander on Magma.

@kylequinn6695 2 года назад

Glad I don't have to butcher the mythos trying to describe it to people anymore; I can just send them this video! Very well done, keep it up!

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

I think I gave as good as a shot as I could gwr with the material available to me in English and Spanish. It is difficult to gauge between what is really going on in Magma and what is just fan conjecture. As far as I know, this is the most complete compilation on the English Internet at the moment, beside the Elite Extremophile's article, which is why I made it.

@SpongeBobaFett 2 года назад

I had never even heard of this band before watching this. I was hesitant to watch when I saw the runtime, but I wanted to help support the channel and make sure you had those early release views so the algorithm might notice, so I clicked anyway. I'm glad I did! What a strange adventure discovering this band has been. Can't imagine how long it took to edit this. Truly the most underrated channel on RU-vid. Keep up the good work!

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

Glad you gave it a chance. Even if the music isn't to your liking, Magma has an interesting history and story.

@danalawrence4473 2 года назад

Let me introduce you to one of the greatest compositions ever written- one that is dark, gothic, mysterious and cataclysmic at the end: Magma's "Kohntarkosz." This is a great live version, and there are many. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QTucmvIEbbg.html

@lexidarling 2 года назад

I first heard Magma around 2007-2008 when I was getting more heavily into prog rock. For a long time they were a very tough nut to crack, as you said they were kind of the final boss of 70s prog. As a writer of science/fantasy their lore always fascinated me, and eventually I just kind of learned to lose myself in the chaos and I can now appreciate a lot of their work. I have a ton of respect for them and Vander as this auteur of cosmic weirdness.

@dhbole1 2 года назад

"Final boss" is the perfect descriptor. Took me a while to get into them but, here I am.

@daviddevilliers2828 7 месяцев назад

My friend I first heard Arriund 85, 86, 14 years old, and now the journey continue

@SSladfingers 2 года назад

> clicks on your channel cause you had cool video about weird online Naruto internet culture > most recent video is a full in depth documentary on Magma Officially one of the coolest RU-vid channels ever

@lizardjr.7826 2 года назад

I got really into magma back in 2019 so this was a treat

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

I hope this works as a good road map for people trying to get into Magma or figure out what they're singing about. There's plenty of more weird stuff about the band I could have talked about (like how bizarre Christian Vander is as a person, but I think that comes across in the material). I'd also recommend "To Life Death and Beyond, the Music of Magma" as a biographical look at the band and that doc is pretty accessible online.

@georgewilson7432 2 года назад

Thanks for introducing me to this musical experience. Everybody should follow William Blake's example and create their own mythologies. It worked for Lovecraft, Perlman, Sun Ra. Speaking of Sun Ra, Magma's themes remind me of his piece Space is the Place. It is indeed. The most important endeavour of man. Have you heard Sun Ra? It's another cosmic experience.

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

Sun Ra is one of those musicians who influenced a lot of musicians I like, but have never listened to directly. Walter Becker of Steely Dan was a fan, Magma has some similarities (especially with Egypt, Science Fiction themes, and a philosophy of transcendence) and a lot of modern Internet art music is also indirectly influenced by Sun Ra. I know the basics about Sun Ra, but there would be a lot of material to work through. I'll make a proper effort of investigating Ra and the Arkestra one day. I know there's been a few independent documentaries already so I'd have to see if I could give it a unique interpretation.

@georgewilson7432 2 года назад

The idea itself of traveling to the stars to save us from Earth also has an interesting pedigree. The most notorious proponent is William Burroughs, but there are others like the author of Mind Parasites, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik, and I think there may be more. Maybe in Roman or Greek marginalia, someone write about visiting the Celestial Sphere.

@sonder152 2 года назад

And both Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare. (maybe even Andrew Chumbley)

@user-qt9vn1yj8x Год назад

Bingo! Both Sun Ra and Magma are individual and parallel musical dives into the cosmic spiritualism and are kind of sound-visionary experiences. I discovered 'em almost simultaneously and also was fascinated, how both of them are really connected and similar, yet totally independent.

@BigBoolinScienceMan 2 года назад

Excellent, more obscure music history, just what I needed.

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

I'm glad I can provide.

@marc3dartist601 2 года назад

French are known to create weird original things, sometimes very creative and beautiful. The band Igorrr is another example of that, mixing death metal, baroque, classic and electronic.

@bobsbigboy_ Год назад

okay but igor sucks

@stinkywizzleteets4740 Год назад

So happy and surprised somebody has decided to take an in depth look at this wonderful and fascinating band. They really do deserve this sort of thorough analysis, unfortunately they are so unrecognized and under-appreciated that not many people really discuss them. Thanks for this excellent analysis, now I'll get a better understanding of the intriguing lore behind Magmas music which before I've only been able to find vague fragments of here and there. Your research for this is very impressive and must've been difficult.

@baronvonpenguin6112 2 года назад

Thank you for reminding me I have one of Magma’s records in my collection. It’s been too long since I’ve listened to this guys.

@feather3563 Год назад

Amazing in-depth video! I think Offering is a great and often overlooked project. Earth from Offering I-II is one of the craziest pieces of music I've heard.

@skeletalmesh9872 2 года назад

Fantastic video, I only had a vague knowledge of Magma because of Jodorowsky's Dune, but the lore is fascinating and you did a terrific job at giving an introduction to everything. Great job on the pronunciation of those kobaian names as well (probably)

@j.c.m.2181 2 года назад

Hearing the sheer fun Pseudiom is having pronouncing *MEKANIK DESTRUKTIW KOMMANDOH* over and over gives me life.

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

Kobaian is very pleasurable and fun to say. Especially when you ham it up. I often find myself chanting "Ïma sürï dondaï!" and the choir sections of Zess.

@j.c.m.2181 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom oh, I do that too! In one particular instance though, I got warped by a misheard lyrics - so now the only thing I can hear in the eponymous song on MDK when the it speeds up in the second part is "Hey hey hey I wish to borrow Pakistan!"

@Minisauro 2 года назад

I’ve likely listen to that album hundreds if not thousands of times. It’s a sing along for me. What a perfect album that is.

@danalawrence4473 2 года назад

Along with "Zee-ben Strayn De Gooshtah." 🙂

@josdurkstraful 2 года назад

@@j.c.m.2181 In MDK is a little section where I always hear: "The boss won't sign".

@ProfessorChocolateCake 2 года назад

I've been obsessed with this band for the last five years. The first song of theirs I ever heard was the original 1971 version Riah Sahiltaahk, by this time I was already heavily into prog and wanted something new and this song left me speechless by the end of it, it was like no other music I'd ever heard. From that moment I was immediately hooked and tried to listen to as much more of their music as I could find. I even bought a Gretsch drum set just like Christian Vander plays and replicated his drum and cymbal layout and everything and it's unbelievable how much sense it makes when you play songs on it. Thanks for actually putting the albums mostly in the right order and you got most of the pronunciations right as well. The only bad thing I have to say about this video is that it lacks actual Magma music being played although I understand you don't want to get into copyright trouble and all that which I suppose is a fair enough reason to not use it.

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

Being unable to feature the music is just sort of a feature I've accepted on RU-vid. My idea is people who already know Magma will find this video or this video will convince them to give it a listen. I discovered Magma due to a random comment on one of my videos and got obsessed by how how unique and impassioned the music sounded while still conveying a strong story. Though, I think some people need a lot about Magma conveyed to them before tipping their toes in due to how confrontational (most) of the albums sound. I guess Magma fans are sort of "Initiates" in that manner. I know Vander really focuses on that relationship between listeners and the band. I also found your video of "Hhai" using footage from "Cleopatra" while doing research. It is very, very good video and combination!

@ProfessorChocolateCake 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom Thank you, did you like the MDK one? I'm really happy with how that one turned out.

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

It is excellent! Haven't watched it all the way through in one sitting, but I'll make time to watch through it all. I was planning on maybe using old anime/animated clips in this video as well, but I just settled on "Tristan et Iseult" and old silent movies. Magma attracts similar minds.

@user-qt9vn1yj8x Год назад

@@Pseudiom Those demo-rehearsals of Wurdah Itah from 19972 Manor studio, used in Tristan et Iseult are known as barbaric version of WI, Vander said, that after this session piano need to be repaired.

@juankgonzalez6230 2 года назад

Really have to dive deeper into Magma one day. What I've heard from them so far is very intriguing, and this video is top notch

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

I think "MDK" is a good start if you like Metal, "Merci" (and the Offering albums) is a good start if you like Jazz, and "Udu Wudu" is a good start if you like Pop music. I think "Da zeuhl wortz mekanik" from MDK, "Lihns" from Live/Hhai, and "Tsai" from Felicite Thosz are three basic songs to show Magma's range. I'd say most of the interpretation in this video is mostly conjecture and theory from what the band has said over the years. As I noted in the video, Christian Vander has changed his interpretations and thoughts over five decades. He use to be a lot crazier or people at least got better at roping him around. I think Magma is very interesting as art/music by itself though, actually alien.

@juankgonzalez6230 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom Damn, thanks for the recommendations Pseudiom! I'll either listen ti MDK or Merci (or both) then. Once again, stellar video, my friend

@MrBenMcLean 2 года назад

I greatly appreciate this video being made because before now, all I knew about Magma was from reading the super confusing wikipedia entries on it.

@ilocosmetro 2 года назад

He has risen!!!

@cutg2722 2 года назад

You need more subscribers, seriously great job

@vagabundo220 2 года назад

Such a great video, i've been listening to magma since 2020 and finished his discography some months ago, I really wanted to go deeper in the story that the albums tell and know more about the Kobaïa culture. I love the context of zess, and I wish magma can perform music until the end of times. Glory to all of Kobaïa

@sinajakelic Год назад

I believe it is pronounced EM-EN-TET RE, it’s very rhytmical. All e’s sound the same, like ‘ae’ or a slavic ‘e’. Imentet (Ament, Amentet or Imentit, meaning "She of the West") was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion representing the necropolises west of the Nile. This could have been the inspiration. Also, the greatest of the old Memphis gods was named Ptah. Thank you for a fantastic video, from a huge Magma fan.

@BENzoic-zj2do 4 месяца назад

I love this video, ive listened to a binch of their albums isolated from eachother, and even have a couple vinyls. Im planning to do a complete story listen, now i know what its supposed to be like

@ThatOneGuy7550 2 года назад

Amazing video! Was always curious about this group

@flannigan7956 2 года назад

Great stuff, lots of good info and well put together. Makes me want to go back through albums. Good to know there was eventually more stuff about em made available on the internet than the hardly-crap of 20 yrs ago heh heh

@Rem1Gnova 2 года назад

A brilliantly informative piece of work. Thank you!

@frankalfar Год назад

Tytyty for this nerdly fascinating deep dive into Magma!!!!

@ThePassionFwuit Год назад

Great video! There was a lot of things I didn't know, even as someone who's been a Magma fan for ten years! While it doesn't fit nicely into the album-by-album narrative you told the story in, Magma was a bit more active in the early 80s than you say, making some of their strongest ever live albums like Retrospektïẁ and Bobino 1981. I'd even go out on a limb and say this was probably the best lineup Magma ever had. Bernard Paganotti is one of the most talented musicians ever to be in Magma and Lisa Deluxe is an absolute hawk of a singer who totally delivered on both the more traditional Magma sounding tracks as well as the more poppy R&B ones. Retrovision is my favorite Magma track because I think it's such a perfect blend of these two sounds. It's heavy and poppy all at once. The Bobino version is the best but the one on the recently remastered (2021) Retrospektïẁ I-II-III is very good too! This era of Magma deserves to be remembered more fondly.

@foxtemple1952 Год назад

That's nostalgic. I really liked this type of narrative music when I was younger. Coheed and Cambria and Magma, mainly

@user-qt9vn1yj8x Год назад

Bravo! BRAVO! BRAVOOO!!!! This is the most complete and complex attempt of interpretation of Magma's legacy up to date! An achievement of it's own! Being a long-time zeuhl-fan, I can only applause all your efforts and courage to try to covet Magma's music universe as a whole unified concept. I always said, that this particular kind of systematic analysis is the most honorable and compelling thing to complete due all the hard-working beneath such a presentation of theme (you have to know all the original material, gather and filter all the surrounding information, find all the key-points and distill all the unnecessary details and so on up to final presentation). Suck kind of research demands great amount of time, passion and patience. But if all the stages were done correct, the final result will shine like a crazy diamond :3 And you have withstand that thin like between facts and fan-gossips very well! Almost all the info were correct, all the little details were downplayed and the central narrative of kobaian mythology was presented in all necessary colors, but without unnecessary bullshit (and oh boy, there is so mush of it amongst Magma's music...). The only lacking info, you may be omitted or have not reached was very detailed booklets of 40th anniversary studio box-set. They provided a lot of detailed info about circumstances of making of all the Magma's studio releases from very first hands. A lot of seemed strange decisions all have the proper background and reason behind them. For example, why Udu Wudu is such a chimera of Magma's LPs and how the theme of Orks was emerged mostly due Janik Topp's suggestions. But anyway, I do not see any serious weak points in this fabulous essay. All the facts were in it's places and all the major points were mentioned. The rest are details for fans, who accepts and understands the artistic chaos of truly visionary music of Magma. Because Magma is but a peak of the whole Zeuhl genre and all the Magma's family releases (and there are tons of it). Aujourd'hui est le jour où nous allons mourir, et je te dis merci.

@tombyrne 3 месяца назад

This video must have been a phenomenal effort to produce, but the results are astounding. As a magma fan of some 47 years, I am relieved that my interpretation of this epic, with its digressions and revisions broadly aligns with yours. I would have liked to see mention of Hhai, which is one of my favourites.

@Baueresque 5 месяцев назад

Great video, amazing work. Thank you

@croiners4166 2 года назад

Only have a few of their records, and I found this interesting,thanks

@gguioa Месяц назад

My god saying KÖHNTARKÖSZ so many times must have taken a toll on your psyche

@ladyibis580 4 месяца назад

I've listened to and enjoyed Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh, and I knew maybe the basic idea behind the band and the albums, but this video makes me want to go through and listen to the whole discography now. Thanks! :3 P.S. Zeuhl becoming its own genre was pretty cool, I've also listened to Eskaton's _4 Visions_ (1981) and Weidorje's self-titled album (1978), I highly recommend those as well. Funny that I've listened to more Zeuhl from bands other than the progenitor, Magma.

@doodleydoo2369 2 года назад

I'm so pumped for this video

@NicolasSequeira Год назад

Your series "not lost media" is a great counterpoint to all the lost media out there

@budspencer7530 Год назад

I watched your entire presentation and found it very enjoyable.He was saved by Coltrane's music. He referred to Coltrane as a Master Here's my thought after watching it. The Kobian story seems to parallel Vander's own life on an emotional level.

@ATEN_DNAR 2 года назад

This is freaking awesome!

@danalawrence4473 2 года назад

One more post. This clip is Magma live from just over a week ago, when they played the Montreux Jazz Festival. This is a new song, written by keyboardist Thierry Eliaz, called Walomendëm warreï, and will be on the new disc coming in October. This version of the band now has 7 singers (!), and has Jannick Top's son Jimi on bass. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L6paZeE58LE.html

@bakomusha 2 года назад

The latest I've commented since becoming a patron! Thanks life for being butt! Well worth the wait tho!

@FeliciteThosz 2 года назад

The great thing about Magma is that they leave a lot to the imagination, so I want to leave you room to explore your ideas without too much censorship. That said, listeners should know that some of the interpretations of the albums' contents are clearly incorrect and misleading. It seems that you have the general stories of the trilogies, but aren't clear on the breakdown of the content of each album. In broad outlines, this is good stuff though, and will give people more of an "in" to esoteric Magma.

@zorbeclegras5708 Год назад

Nice effort! Kreuhn Köhrmahn will be satisfied!

@corruptedmilk2481 2 года назад

Try Cardiacs maybe? In the same vein as weird/obscure rock with great influence

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

I'll definitely check them out.

@corruptedmilk2481 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom Absolutely wonderful, that band is well and truly a rabbithole. I recommend you check out the video on them by Tantacrul for a basic loedown

@zelenahull293 2 года назад

Wow I'm happy finally I am early!

@comradekev2843 2 года назад

Hey. I am a HUGE Magma fan. Well done. I Watched your entire video and gotta say i’m hugely impressed with your analysis. Great job! You’ve got a subscriber. I would definitely recommend Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré 2&3 as starting points to how great their music is. Thank you. Avoid Merci…

@user-qt9vn1yj8x Год назад

Merci is flaweless! You can put it on repeat and listen to it whole day without being tired of it!

@FVFS 3 месяца назад

Avoid? Merci may not rank among their best albums but it's still distinctly Magma-sounding and highly recommended for fans of the band.

@volodymyrbilyk555 2 года назад

Hell yeah! Magma is one of my all time favorite bands and their live album Hhai is out of this world mayhem. Will you ever cover the madness that is the band called Hawkwind or the legacy of Robert Calvert?

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

I'd probably talk about Space Rock and Hawkwind in some form at some point. I've touched the edges of it in my Cusco viddeo and Dungeon Synth video. I'm also familiar with it due yo Michael Moorcock working with Blue Oyster Cult. What I mean is I've done a lot of stuff in its orbit so I'll probably get to it at some point. I need to listen to more Hawkwind though.

@chocodoco4855 2 года назад

Take a shot every time he says "MEKANÏK DESTRUKTÏW KÖMMANDÖH".

@LautarosTongueinAspic Год назад

Thank you so much for this excellent documentary.

@anonymouse8953 2 года назад

thanks a loot! fine picturizin tuu 😀

@soarel325 2 года назад

Finally it's here! This is incredible. Are there any other bands you'd cover in this manner (or possibly individual works of music you'd cover like your Imaginos video)?

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

There is a lot, but I'll mention a few off my head. I'd like to do a video on Jerome Reuter's band/project ROME which I like a lot both musically, lyrically, and in his subject matter. I'm not sure if I'd do an overview on his work or focus on his historical albums like "Flowers from Exile", "A Passage to Rhodesia", and "Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro". Only issue is his music deals in complicated historical events and highly charged events, though I've covered things like that in "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" before. I'd also like to make a follow up to my Imaginos video after Albert Bouchard releases Imaginos III and I have another idea for another Dungeon Synth video. I also have somewhat of an idea for a Sea Shantey video and a video about Argentine milonga poetry/folk music. There is also a few ideas for Japanese music like the band Mouse on the keys and some Japanese folk singers, but the only difficulty there is how much material (even in Japanese it is somewhat scare). I'm interested in seeing what I can being over from the Japanese and Spanish spheres of the Internet. There is also Les Luthiers which some of my Argentinian viewers have mentioned to me. I'd like to do a video on them to gave them some exposure on the English internet, but they're basically an old comedy group with their own lore who do music and shows with incredibly obtuse Spanish/music jokes I only get half the time and would have no idea how to translate. A lot of footage of them is also copyrighted so its liable to get blocked in a lot of countries which means making a video might be tough. There is more, but those are an overview of the more developed ideas.

@soarel325 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom Ooh! Would be very interest in the Rome and Les Luthiers videos.

@lynnpehrson8826 2 года назад

The "machines to us" concept is crazy

@maotse-tung4438 4 месяца назад

Love Magma and great video!

@user-qt9vn1yj8x Год назад

"Magma like a final boss of prog-music" - well said, dear sir! What about Zeuhl itself, I like the description, Vander himself gave it: it is multidirrectional' music. I'd say that Zeuhl is multi-dimensional, that with little efforts an attention will put you in trance-like state and allow to free your mind as wide as possible. This exact trace, provided through their music is the very essence of Zeuhl and it's greatest achievement.

@user-qt9vn1yj8x Год назад

And one little detail about Zess. It's theme and myth is almost exact analogue of vedanta's terms of 'Pralaya' and 'Maha-pralaya'': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya >Hindu cosmology posits an endless cycle of the periodic creation and destruction of the universe. >Atyantika refers to the liberation of one's sense of self. Atyantikapralaya is achieved with the knowledge of God, which occurs when one loses oneself in service to the Paramatman, the Supreme Self. This involves the recognition that most of the cause and effect that occurs in the phenomenal universe is maya, an illusion, and that all that has a beginning and an end is not real. One conquers avidya (ignorance) with the realisation that there is no distinction between one's own Atman (Self) and the Paramatman. When one finally realises this truth, one's sense of self dissolves into and unites with Brahman, and one achieves mukti (liberation).

@ToastersChannel 2 года назад

I am so happy you made this video. Thank you. Bless.

@ToastersChannel 2 года назад

The first song is called Dotz Hündin btw!!

@ToastersChannel 2 года назад

Their debut album Kobaia just blows you away. Their live concert in 1981 at Bobino is still one of the greatest performances ever. My favourite album is probably Attahk with "The Last Seven Minutes".

@danalawrence4473 11 месяцев назад

By the way, the Magma graphic was actually designed by Klaus Blasquiz, who had training as a graphic artist.

@circlebrophy3179 Год назад

Blessings and thanks for this.

@sonder152 2 года назад

An interesting connection between Magma and Voivod (who is another band associated with progressive and experimental music) I see, is that both are bands that are led by their drummers, who compose most of the lyrics, music and artwork. And both have mythologies. (that said Voivod kinda gave up on their storyline after a while but still carried on into their music in the early 90s).

@progfrogian9226 2 года назад

I can 100% tell you that I saw Away Langevin at one of the Magma concerts here in Québec (can't remember if it's Montréal or Victoriaville) 🙂. I saw them 4 times here, one time in the USA and also the 50th anniversary show in Paris in 2019.

@sonder152 2 года назад

@@progfrogian9226 that's freakin awesome. I can definitely see that happening, both being weird avantgarde prog bands drawing from some shared influences with scifi themes. Both Away and Piggy have quite a diverse range of influences, so I wouldn't be in the least surprised if they were also fans of Magma.

@thegodofsoapkekcario1970 2 года назад

I always wanted to hear more about the Kobaian mythology, but I always found nothing when I searched it up other than the first few albums, until I looked in the description of the video, bruh.

@StarlessBandNJ 2 года назад

Wow great great job

@sonder152 2 года назад

One of the best bands

@ladyibis580 4 месяца назад

Looking at the name Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to sound like Eh-men-tet-ray. As you mentioned, the diacritics in Kobaïan don't generally affect the word, but I feel like the acute accent on the final e (é) might actually be pronounced here, giving it an 'ay' sound. If that doesn't affect it, then I'd say it would be reh instead of 'ree'. That's just my opinion though.

@jasonmillion5970 7 месяцев назад

Magma the creators of the Zeuhl genre !!!!!!

@TrailBlazer-d3j 20 дней назад

This is a fantastic video with a lot of information. Could you possibly do an alternative vocal track without vocal-fry and accents? It was a little distracting to get past. This is just a request and I am not trying to be rude.

@VitalMusique 2 года назад

very interesting ... but why can't we hear MAGMA's music in the background (strange to say the least !) ?

@retsz 2 года назад

Whaaaaat? I missed a Pseudiom upload? My sub feed let me down. I always go into a video confused and ignorant of the topic, and leave still confused but less ignorant.

@georgewilson7432 2 года назад

The ultimate concept album, the Kobaians wrestling Earth from the clutches of The Invisibles.

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

There is a sort of serendipity all these music projects were sort of synchronized to the same ideas at the same time in the late 1960s/early 1970s. BOC in America, Magma in France, and Tangerine Dream in Germany. Must have been something in the water...

@georgewilson7432 2 года назад

After reading Acid Dreams, it was probably that.

@Captain1nsaneo 2 года назад

Saw this video in my feed and was going to give it a pass but then I saw who had made it. Excellent as always.

@richardlanchester249 9 месяцев назад

What amuses me in listed comments is when Google Translate pops up offering to translate the Kobaian, then only manages one word at most in a sentence or phrase-- like 'de' --and gets it wrong!

@tookmyjob 2 года назад

The titles of songs from Live/Hhai were changed for copyright issues. I'm still wondering where the single Mekanik Machine fits into everything.

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

Ah, overlooked that. I think my points on Live/Hhai and related material stand though. I'd plead the fact Magma/Kobaian is vague so things can have more than one name. I didn't try to place the singles as well because that's a loosing battle. I think Mekanik machine (thematically) fits in somewhere around the Udu Wudu/Ork songs. It was written by Jannick Top and seems to cohere to the foreshadowing Top was doing with things like "Ork Alarm" on Kohntarkosz at that time. Or I could be completely wrong.

@tookmyjob 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom I thought Mekanik Machine would have made more sense on Kohntarkosz than Coltrane Sundia. In its original form, Ork Alarm seems out of place.

@danalawrence4473 2 года назад

Mekanik Machine was released in 1974, so it comes out just before Kohntarkosz did, so I would view it as coincident with that disc.

@FATGUY_98 5 месяцев назад

Liked and subscribed

@jasonmillion5970 7 месяцев назад

Which one of their songs sound like john coltranes music ?? I dont see it

@Dayglodaydreams 27 дней назад

I wonder if Kahnt is supposed to be Immanuel Kant.

@thanksgivingsandwich 3 месяца назад

God thanks so much for this .

@No___Name 2 года назад

its a shame this doesnt have many views. guess the mainstream isnt quite ready for prog yet.

@couleurlourde3352 3 месяца назад

Merci

@shauncampbell969 2 года назад

Frightening

@martinluc2361 2 года назад

i need a zeuhl translation !

@Bajun94 2 года назад

14:20 Nice, wonder where he got that from. When did he say this, do we have a date?

@Pseudiom 2 года назад

Not an exact Vander Quote, but I did purposefully phrase it that way to reference a certain novel series/anime about the clash of two ideologies in the universe which Magma always reminds me of. (I was considering using LoGH footage for the video but decided against it because LoGH is a bit "harder" sci-fi than Magma.) Vander by coincidence expressed the same thematic idea as Yoshiki Tanaka in his interview with MUSCOscribe. This translation was apparently by Stella Vander so I don't know the original French. "The story of these people leaving Earth for a better place, another planet … is not finished. Because as [early Magma bassist] Laurent Thibault said, Kobaïa is a planet … Kobaïa [is like] Earth, but without - how do you say - the stupid, the dumb people. Instead it had people with something in mind, and who wanted to work for a better place. They wanted to make this place a better place, but they had to do it on another planet. Because it looks like it’s impossible to do that on Earth. We could verify this, you know? So, it’s not science fiction. You see what I mean? It’s not about another planet with other people already living there. It’s just [about] escaping from here, and there are many different ways to escape. But this is one of the ways, trying to create another planet somewhere. It doesn’t have to be in space." (From: archive.ph/UU8Fm) I know you speak French (if you're the same Sieur Fitz) so you can probably find more in depth interviews in French. Magma and "Zeuhl" is apparently popular in Japan though! There's pictures of Christian and Stella Vander looking very awkward on tour there. An idol group did a cover of the "Last Seven Minutes": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fw1TVnlHmGE.html

@Bajun94 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom Indeed, I am the same Sieur Fitz. I'll probably look into it, to see if the ideas are the same, but from what I've seen, the English translations are quite on point, and it does feel like there is common thematic of two opposite set of ideals clashing without an end in sight. Sadly I've never been a big Magma fan, they are a bit too prog and out-there for me, but your video was still very interesting, thank you for another great foray into a not-so-well-known band.

@danalawrence4473 2 года назад

@@Pseudiom ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mEgYARe43UA.html

@_ratherBursadboi 2 года назад

Based Magma video

@bobsbigboy_ 4 месяца назад

humanitYYYYYYYyyyyy

@dapperblueberries9779 2 года назад

Magma, Coheed and Cambria, and The Dear Hunter are the best progressive rock concept bands to ever exist. Their stories are so damn good to where every album can be an essential listen in many sense of the word

@zachabel805 Год назад

u not a G if u haven't witnessed the conflict between Kobaia and the nation of Azeroy also known as the Aze-Kobaio hyperwar

@A-Saxy-Bard 2 года назад

Gonna preface this by saying that i love magmas music and especially zeuhl by other bands. It's a shame that Christian Vander is likely a fascist. It's hard not to see parallels to nazi mythology and occultism in Magmas work; although shrouded by the Coltranian spiritualism. There was a whole intervention online about it way back in 2010 but Vander never addressed it directly and the responses from Magma side stepped the issues. Great video though, despite my reservations about Vander's personal beliefs I won't deny that he, like Wagner and Orff before him, were incredibly talented musicians.

@sonder152 2 года назад

There isn't much evidence, it's highly unlikely

@hazardousjazzgasm129 Год назад

No evidence

@sinajakelic Год назад

I was exploring quite a lot about this issue, read almost everything I could find and even though one can get a lot of clues to form this opinion, it is interesting how magma’s fanbase never included fascists. If his ideologies are such and implemented in the music, as some imply, wouldn’t hordes of fascists and ideologists of similar beliefs flood magma’s shows and online forums. yet, I am still to find a single one. Still, hints of nazism or similar words in magma music can be interpreted in another way, so it is in the eye of the beholder (death of an author concept, and all that) but as for his personal beliefs, we will never know for sure as he didn’t feel the need to adress the rumours. I personally enjoy magma every day and no plans to stop :)

@dhollsynthmusic Год назад

No one called Roger Waters a fascist when he sung "and that one looks jewish, and that one's a coon...if i had my way i'd have all of them shot!". It's no different with Vander sermons: he's playing a role when he says lines which resemble German lines like "sie werden sterben" or has words which look like "incinerator". The conceptual story is after all partly about conflict, war & upheaval.

@posermetal8884 11 месяцев назад

Lotta people saying there's no evidence for this but there's literally? So much? Google the really old Daevid Allen (from Gong) interview where he talks about how Vander's bedroom was covered in nazi flags, photographs of Hitler, and would often jump up in the middle of his solos to do imitation Hitler speeches. Magma are a fascinating and profoundly interesting and entertaining band, but to say there's no evidence of Vander's sketchy beliefs is kinda just willful ignorance at this point.

@HenryFordOfficial 7 месяцев назад

very bad vocal fry, you should have hired a narrator

@InfiniteRhombus 8 месяцев назад

magma rules, amazing band, i also wanna point out "love in the darkness" from offering is just a stripped down version of "Call from the dark" from merci