MAGMA 1001° Centigrades ORIGINAL 1971 FRENCH PRESS - CLEAN SOUND - NEAR MINT
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MAGMA 1001° Centigrades ORIGINAL 1971 FRENCH PRESS - CLEAN SOUND - NEAR MINT
MAGMA1001° Centigrades
1971 ORIGINAL FRENCH PHILIPS (6397 031) PRESSING (not issued in the UK)
For 1,001 Degrees Centigrade, Magma underwent several personnel changes: guitarist Claude Engel departed without being replaced, and Alain Charlery and Richard Raux made way for Louis Toesca (trumpet) and Jeff Seffer (sax, bass clarinet).
This was the second instalment in Magma's Kobaïan saga. With lyrics again performed in the band's invented language, the album chronicles the Kobaïan people's return to Earth to save the planet.
Despite that conceptual continuity with the group's self-titled debut, this was a somewhat transitional work in musical terms.
It shares the first album's jazz direction but also anticipates Magma's subsequent journey into a genre of its own making, one that owed as much to Carl Orff as it did to rock music.
Penned by Teddy Lasry (woodwinds) and François Cahen (keyboards) respectively, Side Two's "'Iss' Lanseï Doïa" and "Ki Ïahl Ö Lïahk" are fairly standard exercises in Soft Machine-style jazz-rock with some complex instrumental sections and idiosyncratic Kobaïan vocals but it is the record's original Side One, given over to the 22-minute Christian Vander composition "Rïah Sahïltaahk," which breaks into new territory.
Again displaying a jazz orientation with its multiple phases, its abruptly changing time signatures, tempos and intensities, as well as its shifting instrumental emphases (horns, woodwind, electric piano), this epic track also breaks new ground for Magma. Although it lacks the fluidity and the truly grand symphonic gravitas of the band's subsequent magnum opus, Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh, it more than hints at that album's strident, martial rhythms and its Carmina Burana-esque choral dimensions.
Ultimately, 1,001 Degrees Centigrade is by no means a classic Magma record, but "Rïah Sahïltaahk" stands out as an excellent document of a band approaching its masterpiece
VINYL: NEAR MINT barely played - unmarked vinyl surfaces - looks like-new - some low-level background on the quietest sections - nothing unexpected - a really fine copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT crisp and sharp - deep gloss to the laminated surfaces - some shop creasing to the spine - all spine text clear and bold
MATRIX: 6397031 1 380 / 6397031 2+ 380
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED SLEEVE WTH GREEN “GRAND PRIX NATIONAL DU DISQUE” STICKER
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE
Side 1:
Rïah Sahïltaahk (21:51)
Side 2:
"Iss" Lanseï Doïa (11:46)
Ki Ïahl Ö Lïahk (8:20)
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EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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