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Magma is the debut album by zeuhl

Zeuhl

Zeuhl means celestial in Kobaïan, the constructed language created by Christian Vander. Originally solely applied to the music of Vander's band, Magma, the term zeuhl was eventually used to describe the similar music produced by French bands, beginning in the mid-1970s...

 artists Magma

Magma (band)

Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a...

, which was released as a double

Double album

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-LP

Gramophone record

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 in 1970. In the course of this album, the band tells the story of a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the fictional planet Kobaïa.

Side one

1. Kobaïa (Christian Vander
   Christian Vander (musician)
   Christian Vander is a French drummer, musician, and founder of the band Magma. Besides his work with Magma, he has also performed solo, with the Christian Vander Trio and Christian Vander Quartet, and in Offering....
   
   ) – 10:15
2. Aïna (Vander) – 6:15
3. Malaria (Vander) – 4:20

Side two

1. Sohïa (Teddy Lasry) – 7:00
2. Sckxyss (François Cahen) – 3:47
3. Auraë (Vander) – 10:55

Legacy

The title track, Kobaïa, has been played as a regular part of Magma concerts since its recording, although in a more jazzy version more akin to that of the version on Live/Hhai.

This album is not a completely Zeuhl album. It, along with their second album 1001° Centigrades, is more of a straight jazz fusion effort, although it still shows a lot of the future Zeuhl sound.

Performance

• Christian Vander
  Christian Vander (musician)
  Christian Vander is a French drummer, musician, and founder of the band Magma. Besides his work with Magma, he has also performed solo, with the Christian Vander Trio and Christian Vander Quartet, and in Offering....
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals
• Claude Engel – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , vocals
• Francis Moze
  Francis Moze
  Francis Moze is a French bass player, best known for his work in Magma, Gong and Pierre Moerlen's Gong.Moze played in an early line-up with Magma. When he left the group, Giorgio Gomelsky introduced him to Gong. He played on the album Flying Teapot...
  
   – electric bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , contrabass
  Contrabass
  Contrabass refers to a musical instrument of very low pitch; generally those pitched one octave below instruments of the bass register...
  
  
• François Cahen – piano
  Piano
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• Teddy Lasry – soprano sax
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , flute
• Richard Raux – alto and tenor sax, flute
• Alain "Paco" Charlery – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  , percussion
• Klaus Basquiz – vocals

Production

• Claude Martelot – engineer
  Audio engineering
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• Laurent Thibault – production
  Record producer
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• Lee Hallyday – production supervision
• Louis Haig Sarkissian – stage manager
• M.J.Petit – make-up
• Marcel Engel – technical assistant
• Roger Roche – engineer

External links

• Explanation of each track