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listennow801 wrote: Not "so much better than..." I mean, of course the first release was wonderful - one can't make not great music suddenly great, no matter how good you are. One has to [as a listener] care for fidelity of course, but if you do, the difference is quite powerful, and moving imo. It's the same music obviously, but it's just much richer,much deeper. It reaches a sublimity that -  I don't know how to say it. I mean it was there before, this just really pushed it over the edge for me. You can feel it, literally, deeper within your body. [Well, I did anyway. ;)]

I understand, improved sound is always refreshing to say the least. The thing is that the old release was already perfect music and nearly perfect sound (to my ears). Now I guess the sound is as perfect as the music :)

SaltyJon wrote: Most likely, yeah.   I also need a long time to get good enough at bass to learn their works, though.  Did you see over on the Kohntarkosz blog they made the piano/vocal sheet music for MDK available?

Yeah, I already got it. I'd personally prefer chord notation and then picking notes out of the chords (rather than standard notation). MDK's piano section isn't that complex, I really think I can play that (can't promise the same for Wurdah Itah, Kohntarkosz and Theusz Hamtaahk, it's really complex stuff, I'd need chord notation at least)

Listening to Beefheart Mirror man right now and being reminded of how amazing it is. Anyone else out there feels as if it is possibly the closest we might ever get to Progressive southern delta blues?

James wrote: shriek like a recently-insulted banshee, that could help.

Like on Part I of K.A.?

That makes me giggle and I don't think it's supposed to...
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;) But how can you not at their hyper-self-seriousness?! It's cool of course, but rather tinged w/ a note of silly very over-the-top-ness often, intentional or not ;) [am i sinning here? You opened the door James ;) -]

That one bit on KA I is the only part that still makes me laugh. 

A Person wrote: That one bit on KA I is the only part that still makes me laugh.

But who is it doing it?

I don't know how to describe it either.  Is it a wail, is it a scream, is it a wailing scream?

All I know is it makes me very amused.  I am hoping one day that I stop at a traffic light when that part comes on.  I'm also hoping to get weird looks.

I'll have to check the album liner notes to see if it is Himiko or not.  I thought it may have been Stella.

Of course, Himiko is no longer with the band (she's with Trap) so how will they perform K.A. in the future?

James wrote: I'll have to check the album liner notes to see if it is Himiko or not.  I thought it may have been Stella.

Not sure who's doing it - but as for classifying the noise in question, I'd call it 'ululation'.

Syzygy wrote: I've always admitted that there's something slightly ridiculous about Magma - for me that's part of the appeal. I suspect that even Christian Vander has the odd fit of the giggles after making some especially apocalyptic announcement in Kobaian (not an image that springs easily to mind, I know). If they weren't so completely, utterly over the top they'd fall flat on their faces - they succeed so brilliantly because they're well aware of how far to go and they insist on going even further.

I agree - the bizarrerie/silliness is a major apart of the appeal, and it needs the (semi-?)seriousness to work.  Goofiness doesn't really mix with Zeuhl, but 100% total seriousness would cancel out the light-hearted moments and danceability!  It's sad that not many people do flamboyance/eccentricity/mysteriousness too well these days.  I kind of wish I'd been around in the 'cape-wearing and portentous pronouncements' era...

James wrote: Of course, Himiko is no longer with the band (she's with Trap) so how will they perform K.A. in the future?

They may not bother to perform it at all - unless they decided to present the entire E-Re trilogy in concert someday.  I imagine they'd just draft in a few extra female singers.  Anyway, I'm far more curious to know whether more (new?) recorded work might emerge in future.

On a different topic entirely, Present's 'Barbaro (ma non troppo)' or UZ's 'Clivages'?  Which one should I stick on the ol' birthday wish-list?  (Don't say 'both' - I'm trying to keep it short and sweet! )

 

listennow801 wrote: [QUOTE=Syzygy] I've always admitted that there's something slightly ridiculous about Magma - for me that's part of the appeal. I

I tend to agree to that...





































Edited by Udi Koomran - May 09 2010 at 07:50

^^ CAPTION COMPETITION!!  It has to be done.  (Possibly in a new thread, of course...)

I have to laugh when I see a picture of Vander with facial hair.  He looks like a pirate.   You don't often see him smiling in photos, either, so the one with the cheesy grin is quite a rarity!

James, I am most thankful that you would consider the kaftan rather than the tight sparkly purple trousers.

I mean the Kaftan (if that's what it is) in the first photo.  I do like the other one too, though.