Magma are a French avant-garde rock band from Paris, formed in 1969 by drummer and keyboardist Christian Vander. During the 1970s, they released six proper studio albums and a live disc on the Philips, Vertigo, Utopia, and Eurodisc labels. Their debut, Kobaïa (1970), introduced the Kobaïan language and ritualized vocal arrangements. 1001° Centigrades (1971) and […]
Magma is the debut album by the French progressive-rock band Magma, released in October 1970 on Philips. The double-album presents a sprawling concept about refugees abandoning a doomed Earth to build a society on the distant planet Kobaïa, conveyed largely in the constructed Kobaïan language. The ensemble combines jazz-rock frameworks with classical phrasing, shifting pulses, […]
Claude Engel (born 1948) is a French guitarist and composer who released an instrumental jazz-funk album on Tele Music in 1972, followed by two folk-pop albums on CBS between 1973 and 1976. Discography: 99% Pop (1972) Claude Engel (1973) Fantasmagory (1976) Guitarisme (1983)
