z.a.r.p.e.k. (G-N) V

Triceratopsoil wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: Can Magma's latest studio album keep the streak going ? I don't know, I haven't heard it yet :o Voted Grobbschnitt for epic LA LA LAs

SaltyJon wrote: I actually haven't heard any from this list...I am confused and a bit alarmed...

sagichim wrote: Levitation is one of my favorite Hawkwind albums and Nebelnest's Zepto is also really good. But I feel like going with an old favorite of mine Nine Days Wonder, I don't think they are going to get any votes by this list. I really like their debut it has a cool wacky vibe to it, a real excellent gem!

Mellotron Storm wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Felicite Thosz sounds too much like Magma: The Musical to my ears. I find their recent joyous hymnal gospel sound hard to swallow as well, and this time there's simply too much prettyness. Haikara however is pure progjoy. Love the female vocals, and the language. Both song and album comes highly reccomended: I can't argue with you with your thoughts on the latest MAGMA. What i loved about the previous one Em-Re was the darkness and how serious it was. This is like the polar opposite and it took me a while to take the plunge after hearing how joyous this new one was. It has grown on me though.

Like E-Re, I loved FT on first listen, but not as much, and still not as much.  I love the exuberance; such joy of FT but, I can say the same for much of E-Re.  To me they are not opposites by any means.  With both albums, I knew the majority of the material already, so I knew what to expect. 

I'ma real sucker for the exuberant "Hhai" tradition of Magma, as well as loving other stuff.  Magma is to me more about joy and fun than darkness and seriosuness.  My favourite albums are still the first two, plus Wurdah Itah, but I really like the modern ones too (not KA as much).

Judging by that Haikara track, though, I certainlyy would have voted for that over Felicite Thosz had I known it.

Mellotron Storm wrote: Maybe "opposite" was too strong a word but i stand by my statement that E-Re is darker and also more powerful and intense than the new one and the one the preceeded it(KA).  KA has never completely clicked with me and this new one might also be in that category although i do like it better than KA.  I need to listen to E-Re again because it's been a long time.

I agree with you on that.  It's just that I love the joy that can be found on E-Re (the reworking of Hhai is one of the albums highs for me.  "Oh that knee; gotta love that knee.. Ow whee, that knee, ow whee!" That's how I hear part of it).  I would say that there's more contrast on E-Re.

By the way, except for a time when I took a break from Magma and stuff in the archives generally, E-Re has been in regular rotation.  It is easily my favourite of Magma's modern studio albums. I used to love KA, but got bored with it.  I find it "thin", Prog cliché in part, and forced, and the keyboards I find dull. 


Edited by Logan - October 12 2012 at 13:41

Mellotron Storm wrote: sagichim wrote: Levitation is one of my favorite Hawkwind albums and Nebelnest's Zepto is also really good. But I feel like going with an old favorite of mine Nine Days Wonder, I don't think they are going to get any votes by this list. I really like their debut it has a cool wacky vibe to it, a real excellent gem! Nice pick !  Probably in my top three here. A very entertaining listen with some hilarious moments too when the guy is speaking like he's a woman. A German band with English vocals.

Stoned is the right word!

Saperlipopette! wrote: ^Hhai is stunning and there's lots of uplifting joy to be found on my favorite (two first) Magma albums. As you know I listen to plenty of joyful, silly and fun stuff, but Felicite Thosz sounds at times like something composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. And that's really not my kind of enjoyment. I had seen it performed live so I was prepared for the new album to be slight disappointment. But although it was my least favorite part of the concert it worked much, much better on stage.  Glad you liked the Haikara epic. I find the whole piece really unique and for some reason I'm genuinely moved by the vocal delivery..  Edit: A couple of post got there inbetween, so my arrow was aimed at the post where Logan mentions Haikara. I love the light and dark of ER too, while I can't really listen to K.A in full, btw.

I saw Felicite Thosz pieces performed live via video before E-Re came out, and had thought at that time that that material would be on Magma's next studio album.  I loved it from the Alien-ish opener on.  It does have a Webber vibe to it, but hell, I admit that I used to enjoy musicals quite a bit, really like Jesus Christ Superstar, and could sing all of Phantom of the Opera at one time (saw that performed twice -- in Osaka and Vancouver and bought the CD back in about 1990 ).

Magma's first two albums are also my particular favourites, and indeed the joy, fun, and silliness is part of the mix that makes the albums so special to me  It was hearing "Iss lansei Doia' that first got me into Magma.  Joy and fun is common to a huge amount of Magma.   By the way, talking to you about what makes magma special has incited me to play Gonda Sextet again.  That was a fantastic recommendation for me.

That Haikara is really good; glad you posted the youtube vid.

Guess I was wrong...Zepto is doing quite well!

Man With Hat wrote: Guess I was wrong...Zepto is doing quite well!