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Magma - K.A. [Köhntarkösz Anteria] (2004)

Genre: Avantgarde Progressive Rock, Fusion, Zeuhl

K.A. (Köhntarkösz Anteria) is an album released by French progressive rock band Magma in 2004. The album was released after over 20 years of silence. The material was composed by drummer Christian Vander already in 1973-1974. Again, K.A is sung completely in Magma's fictional language Kobaian. ~ Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

This is the Magma album that fans have waited almost 30 years to hear, and it's easily on a par with the best of their mid 70s work. Fragments of this work have been heard before on Inedits, and the closing 'Alleluia' chorus can be heard on the early version of Kohntarkosz on BBC Londres 1974, but this is the first time the whole work has been presented (or finished, for that matter). In the rather convoluted sequence of Magma's Kobaian epic, this piece would come after Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh and acts as a sort of prequel to Köhntarkösz. Most of the album is closer to the Carl Orff stylings of Wurdah Itah and Mekanïk Kommandöh than to the more instrumentally based Köhntarkösz or 1001 Degrees Centigrades, with Vander's trademark vocal arrangements sounding lovelier than ever. The new band are also true to the Zeuhl spirit, especially guitarist James MacGaw, whose clean tone and economical but melodic guitar lines recall the work of Claude Olmos in the '73/'74 line up.

Parts 1 and 2 are light and melodic pieces featuring dazzling interplay between piano, guitar and vocals, all underpinned by Vander's metronomically precise drums and some nicely judged bass from Philippe Bussonet. Part 3 opens with a lengthy instrumental passage (sounds like a synth but it was probably intended for flute or sax) which demonstrates the jazzier side of Vander's muse - it's surely no accident that a photo of John Coltrane is visible in the background of the snapshots of the band. Part 3 then builds to the kind of climax familiar from other Magma epics, culminating in what sounds like a distant cousin of the Hallelujah chorus.

This is also the best sounding of Magma's studio albums - modern recording techniques mean that every element of the complex arrangements is crystal clear, but thankfully the dodgy production values which spoiled albums like Merci have been abandoned in favour of a more natural sound. ~ Review by Chris Gleeson @

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.

Now it’s one thing to rest on your laurels and quite another to come back after such a great amount of time and to try and completely re-capture the original essence of your art. So many come backs have turned into let-downs ; and thus it is with some trepidation that I approached listening to K.A. I had seen many of the great Magma line-ups of the seventies performing these classics live. So the other question in my mind was: could the present band do it? All of you out there reading this will be delirious to know that it is almost as if time stood still. Of course K.A itself was composed 30 years ago and is the missing link between MDK and Köhntarkösz but that is hardly the point.

K.A is the real thing. The hypnotic tension, the explosive climaxes, the fantastic pyrotechnic drumming, the massive and intricate vocal arrangements, the gut-wrenching bass lines and the classical pomposity fused with almost jungle-strength R n’ B - all the hallmarks of Christian Vander’s special genius are found here intact. I have nothing further to say except that we got lucky. ~

Tracklisting:

1. K.A I (11:12)

2. K.A II (15:53)

3. K.A III (21:44)

Total Time: 48:49

Line-Up:

- Stella Vander (Tauhd Zaïa) / vocals, percussions

- Isabelle Feuillebois (Enör Zanhka) / vocals

- Himiko Paganotti (Okita Sgëhmka) / vocals

- Antoine Paganotti (Wöss Këmkah) / vocals

- James MacGaw (Staiïss Ësslëhnt') / guitar

- Emmanuel Botghi (Iüsz dëh Dzeuhr Ëmëhnëtt) / piano, Fender

- Frédéric d'Oelsnitz (Loï Dëwëhlünn) / Fender

- Philippe Bussonnet (Gëhnohr Dügohnn') / bass

- Christian Vander (Zebëhn Straïn de Geustaah) / drums, vocals, percussions

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