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KA is the best forever k


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Repetition is musical too. 
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I've yet to listen to either -Re or KA. (f**k Kobaian, okay? I don't have time for remembering where all the extra m's and h's go.). Right now, as blasphemous as it may seem, I may be prefering Merci over all of it...mainly because it's their most musical album (the least occupied with repetition, and the most occupied with honest-to-Kommandoh melodies, dude). But that might be a stretch.
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Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

KA is the best forever k


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Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

Magma just seems overly dramatic for their own good. I like Udu Wudu and Attahk the best because the Wagnerian craziness is left to a minimum, and Jannick Top lets it rip on the bass.


I don't particularly like Top as a bassist and writer, and I love the crazyness. Approve
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So far I've preferred MDK and the debut the most. MDK due to the excess of climax-and-recall, and the debut due to the hefty reliance on well crafted and open minded jazz fusion. 
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Originally posted by Alitare Alitare wrote:

Well, I like their formula, but it's not something I care for through seven albums. But this Merci album...it's amazing! It's like if Magma did synth pop...think about that.


I've never heard Merci, mainly because I as scared off by other saying it sucks bad. Will give it a try this week.


My favorite Magma albums are the ones they've recorded in the last decade: the Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie live album, K.A and Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré.
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Magma just seems overly dramatic for their own good. I like Udu Wudu and Attahk the best because the Wagnerian craziness is left to a minimum, and Jannick Top lets it rip on the bass.
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Is it me, or is the super-influential, experimental, outrageous, unique Magma a band that really didn't strive for diversity? I've listened to seven of their albums today, and while every other record is absolutely great, My mind was only blown a little, and at first. Yes, gregorian chants. Yes, Rhodes piano. Yes, pseudo-jazz fusion. Yes, tribal rhythms, repetition, martial bass guitar throb, etc. Yes, opera climaxing. The songs are starting to mesh together and I can't control it. I've been listening to them in chronological order, though. I'm about to hit Merci. 


Depends on what you compare them with, probably. To my ears each of the 6 studio albums of theirs I heard are different and have a distinct personality, which I'd explain by different line-ups which meant different instruments, hence different aesthethics. One album is rocky free jazz,  one is classic fusion a la Weather Report but with a special twist, the next is again different with lots of dark organ playing and weird choirs; the next is a fuzzy space epic, etc.. The first of the modern ones is very akin to symph-prog because of Manu Borghi the synth-wiz, then he leaves and is replaced by someone who plays exclusively electric piano which brings them somewhere else again, and so on. And I haven't touched their "funkier" albums yet.
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Well, I like their formula, but it's not something I care for through seven albums. But this Merci album...it's amazing! It's like if Magma did synth pop...think about that.
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My favorite Zeuhl albums (both in my sig) aren't by Magma, so I tend to agree so far. But I've only heard two magma albums thus far.
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I think the other zeuhl bands do it better.
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I like Magma but they have a formula.

It just happens to be a good one. Approve
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Is it me, or is the super-influential, experimental, outrageous, unique Magma a band that really didn't strive for diversity? I've listened to seven of their albums today, and while every other record is absolutely great, My mind was only blown a little, and at first. Yes, gregorian chants. Yes, Rhodes piano. Yes, pseudo-jazz fusion. Yes, tribal rhythms, repetition, martial bass guitar throb, etc. Yes, opera climaxing. The songs are starting to mesh together and I can't control it. I've been listening to them in chronological order, though. I'm about to hit Merci. 
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My God, the new Wild Beasts is mindblowing. 
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Clockhead is pretty cool guy, eh puts antique on head and doesn't afraid of anything.
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Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

I made my mom a mixed CD with Fair to Midland, Karnivool and Portal (not the Australian band) last year and she jams out to it every day.

I would like to see my mom's reaction to the Australian Portal.

Anyone's reaction to Portal is usually pretty extreme. I listen to them while I water my plants cook breakfast.

I usually put them on to ease me into a nice comfortable sleep.

I'm ignoring the non-Aussy Portal. They're not all that great. But, I've found Aussy Portal is great for first dates and long walks on the beach.
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Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

I made my mom a mixed CD with Fair to Midland, Karnivool and Portal (not the Australian band) last year and she jams out to it every day.

I would like to see my mom's reaction to the Australian Portal.

Anyone's reaction to Portal is usually pretty extreme. I listen to them while I water my plants cook breakfast.

I usually put them on to ease me into a nice comfortable sleep.
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I was blasting Portal in my apartment one day and my neighbor was banging on the wall and said TURN DAT SH*T UP!
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