Magma

Shakespeare wrote: Nightfly wrote: After years as a name I knew but never actually listened too I bought my first Magma album a month ago (K.A). It's quite unlike anything else in my collection but I found myself warming to it after a few listens and deffinitely a band I want to check out further. I've been trying to get hold of Kobaia but no luck yet. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=Seventh-Rex%20IV

Logan wrote: Old topic, but while searching came up with this topic. I didn't want to start a new topic for this (sorry for bumping a deliberate troll/ prank thread to do it). I decided to add the album to PA as an EP, and while looking for more information, I came across it in a streaming version. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26wb74_magma-riah-sahiltaahk-2014-full-album_music I guess it's being released on vinyl? I plan to buy it.

A new Magma vinyl ??? Shock-horror - I'm there........
Sure, I get their CD's, but vinyl means so much more to me......

^ Kohntarkosz..........
The first 2 are magnificent.

Yes.  Kobaïa is where to start, Doc. 

Looks like I start at the beginning then....

I think Kobaia is the best place,  more traditional if you will.. an incremental one foot into the water step into he world of Magma.  With MDK HT you jumped in with both feet. Kobaia is a great album period, with the emphasis on some stellar playing and touches of the upcoming Magma Insanity (Stoah!  hahah).  MDK is a great Magma album, but it shows more the Orff side of the group and a STRONG influence on the vocals, but perhaps not of the tastes of everyone.  I would say Kobaia.  I liken it to some albums some groups have, if you don't like x don't even bother but you won't like the group. I think Kobaia is that for Magma.

Polymorphia wrote: I got into them with MDK too. But I think I tend to get into a band more easily at their weirdest.

true but if suggesting albums and groups to people you don't know or not knowing their tastes or predispositions, one should work their way up to it. Obviously not everyone is predisposed to that. It would be one thing if Kobaia was a sh*t album but it is FAR from that. It is a classic album but not the distinctive one that MDK was.

Kobaia has incredible emotional depth and beauty, furious playing, and good amounts of trademark Magma vocal wackiness. The emphasis on the music, the playing, makes it an album most music fans, prog fans can love. If one doesn't have it, they need to have it. It is an album a NON Magma fan could love. Thus my point about being the starting point, if that didn't click, likely MDK would not. However with MDK, unless a listener like you knows they want the far out or non traditional stuff, it is best IMO to work ones way up to it.  In it is less musically driven and more choiral style showing the obvious Orff influence. 

micky wrote: I think Kobaia is the best place,  more traditional if you will.. an incremental one foot into the water step into he world of Magma.  With MDK HT you jumped in with both feet. Kobaia is a great album period, with the emphasis on some stellar playing and touches of the upcoming Magma Insanity (Stoah!  hahah).  MDK is a great Magma album, but it shows more the Orff side of the group and a STRONG influence on the vocals, but perhaps not of the tastes of everyone.  I would say Kobaia.  I liken it to some albums some groups have, if you don't like x don't even bother but you won't like the group. I think Kobaia is that for Magma.

As for me, I just jumped in with K. A. Did the trick.