Magma

Magma – K​ã​rt​ë​hl (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:34 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Art Rock, Jazz Rock, Avant-Rock, Zeuhl
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Seventh records

Due to COVID-19, the French avant-garde band Magma was unable to perform live, so they decided to dive into the studio to create new material. This resulted in a brand new album titled Kãrtëhl, a collective album such as they have not made in a long time. The band reformed in 2020 and added new musicians to the lineup, which created opportunities for new innovative compositions. After the rather dark 2019 Zëss, this new work Kãrtëhl features bright and resolutely optimistic collective new work, the result of an “Operation Kartëhl”.

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Magma – Zess (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:57 minutes | 455 MB | Genre: Art Rock, Jazz Rock, Avant-Rock, Zeuhl
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Seventh records

Zëss had long been plagued by its incompleteness and its recording was deferred for years. Four decades after its first draft, the work has finally been recorded in an orchestral version that gives it both its true dreamlike dimension and its transcending power. For Zëss is above all the visionary reflection of an immemorial dream haunting the most obscure part of our souls. Zëss treads a line between a vital overflowing and the edges of the unlivable. It is an incandescent and heady oratorio where consciousness questions its other side in a measureless journey. Zëss indicates the ultimate reversal out of which bursts a beyond of music that only music can reach. Magma’s whole story condensed…

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