Magma Book
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Topic: Magma Book
Posted By: Alucard
Subject: Magma Book
Date Posted: February 07 2010 at 03:48
Christophe Gonin
Magma : decryptage d'un mythe et d'une musique (2010 Le Mot Et Le Reste)
New book about Magma in one of the most interesting French editions Le Mot Et Le Rest specialized in music and especially in Prog. Written by an universitarian it has a classical approach with a thematic first part and a detailled chronological analysis of the records up to E.-Re.
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 10:27
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I read a few pages and it's quite interesting.I will buy it later. ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 18:55
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If only I could read French...
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:01
Je parle français!
 Ça m'a tout l'air d'un excellent livre
 For those who don't speak French, I said:
I speak French, and it looks like a great book. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
SaltyJon wrote:Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:05
Then you can get it and translate it for all of us then.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:08
 I shouldn't have said that! ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:37
I'll probably buy this one, hopefully it'll make me worker harder in French  ------------- 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 05:22
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Joel, French is very worth learning. Have you seen my last post in the "There's something about France" thread?
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 15:47
Nope.
I'm in my 5th year of doing French, though. We had to do it for 2 years, so I decided I may as well continue with it -------------
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 16:11
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Looks interesting Martin! I'll try to struggle through it with the aid of a dictionary - my French A level was a long time ago but I can still more or less understand interviews in Rock et Folk provided there's not too much slang involved. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 04 2010 at 14:14
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The team of the fanzine Traverses made a review of this book - and they don't look very happy with this one: http://www.rythmes-croises.org/traversesmag/ - http://www.rythmes-croises.org/traversesmag/ The review is on their forum. |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: March 04 2010 at 17:52
I just read the review, which is as you said quite negative. So far all books I read from the Le Mot Et Le Reste edition were good or excellent. A bit astonishing, that according to the reviewer, the book was hastely published with typing and other errors just to bring out the book for the 40th birthday of Magma, as the edition risks their good reputation.
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