Pure prog gold! MAGMA "Hhaï" Live (reaction episode 653)
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
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In this video Canadian Guitarist/producer Dean Wolfe reacts to French prog rock legends Magma featuring Christian Zander, founder of a kind of music know as Zeuhl.
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Hi Dean, welcome to the MAGMA fan club. This live album is a real masterpiece.
Christian Vander is a great drummer and a driving force for Magma. The lyrics are in Kobaïan,the language they created, not French.
oh, OK
@@deanwolfechannel the name of that language is Kobaïan and it's out of the plant Kobaïa
I saw them about 5 years ago and that was a total blast
Is it a language that can be learned? Or just random?
@@deanwolfechannel
You can learn Kobaïan
Kobaïan lyrics have meanings.
There are also dictionaries in Kobaïan-English.
I saw them live with Porcupine Tree opening for them. A truly transcendental experience, Magma is bar none the best band I've ever seen live. Highest recommendation!
Just to clear up about the lead vocals. It's Vander himself singing while there's no drumming (or barely), and later in the song it's Klaus Blasquiz, the band's main vocalist, and Stella Vander singing. Note also that this is an early, unfinished version of the piece, which in its complete form appears on "Retrospektiw I" from 1980, and later found a home as part of the "Emehntehtt-Re" suite, released in 2009.
Hey, Aymeric!
Toute mon adolescence... Et ils existent encore, leur dernier disque est magnifique avec un orchestre symphonique ❤
At last someone tackles Magma's best album. If you loved Hhaï, and if you have the courage, make a reaction on Kohntark from the same album ( and you must have listened to it I hope ). 30 years later, I still cannot figure how they made such an incredible piece of music.
Kohntarkosz is the greatest composition there is! Monumental!
Best album for me: Paris Olympia: Mekanïk..,
on this track :
Christian Vander - drums
Klaus Blasquiz - vocal
Stella Vander - vocal
Gabriel Federow - guitar
Bernard Paganotti - bass
Didier Lockwood - violin
Benoît Widemann - keyboards
I saw Magma 6 or 7 times maybe more.
In 1977 in Marseille, it was the best thing I saw in my life. At the end of the show, nobody leave the theatre, we were all glued on the seats by the explosion of énergie we have taken in the face ! half an hour later, most of us were still here...incredible
Awesome. Treasure those memories!
vander sings this song
Agreed on the Bruford comparison. I love both of them.
This album is a masterpiece !
Oh my GOD! The intro vocals blew me away! What a piece! Excellent work on bass and the high-hat *chef's kiss* BEAUTIFUL!!! 😘 Cannot believe that was LIVE!!! WOW!
Also, love the hair in the thumbnail, Dean. You're really onto something there! 😍
Best live band I've ever seen. Ecstatic experience!
I bet!
and me
Agreed!
Magma is incredible. I can’t even put it into words. Brilliance 🔥❤️
That ending section was especially cool. I hadn't heard this version before. 😳
first time hearing this band. I really loved how that intro keyboard melody was slowly revealed to be a triplet pattern over the actual 3/4 (or 6/8) feel. love it when that happens 🤟
Hello , Christian Vander had a vision when he founded Magma in the late 1960's. However, to express all this, he found the French language insufficient and developed the artificial language Kobaia, which also exists in written form. It is worthwhile if you deal with the complete work. Magma will infect you and won't let go... Thomas from Hamburg
Welcome to the Magma rabbit hole.
Thanks!
O Magma é um ponto fora da curva não somente no rock, mas como na música! Ver está banda ao vivo é um experiência sensorial fora do comum, um misto de espanto, energia, e expectativa que prende o espectador a escutar musicas de até 48 minutos. É incrível!!
magical album
Zeuhl !!!!!
Dean, Christian Vander (the drummer) studied under Elvin Jones. jones was the drummer for John Coltrane during his Love Supreme period. Vander is up there with the best.
You can really hear the influence of Elvin in Christian's playing with the use of epic hemiolas
do you know his father ? he knows music very well (his spiritual master is Coltrane)
How interesting! I always thought about his style of playing sort of reminded me of Elvin Jones, but I didn't know Vander had actually been his student. Very cool, thanks for mentioning.
imagine if the intro singer and the drummer are the same guy
and the composer as well!
Welcome to Kobaïa.
Phil Collins??? Forget about Phil Collins. I mean, I'm fond of early Genesis, they can put tears in my eyes. But this is a completely different league. Bill Bruford said about Vander "Oh god! What a monster!". No one can compete with Vander in his heyday. Not even Cobham or whoever. No one, except Vander's masters, Elvin Jones and maybe Tony Williams. Believe me. This man is a complete alien.
Anyway, the heart of Magma has never been the drums. It's the singing, the piano, and sometimes bass.
If you're wondering why you never heard about Magma before, well... Magma is not entertainment music. It's spiritual music, so far away from everyday expectations, so heavy, so rich, so mad, so powerful that's it's unbearable for most people out there. Magma doesn't go to you. You go to Magma or you stay at the door if you're too frightened. Magma is more dangerous than anyone else.
If you really want to understand why I say this, try this, in one shot, alone, at high volume :
czcams.com/video/23k0pCLLmuE/video.html
listening - beautiful. I'll do an album review of it
@@deanwolfechannel Glad you like it. It's not everybody's music, really.
try this live version... fantastic
czcams.com/video/NoZIXPvHPoY/video.html
That's why no one wants Magma fans, what's the need to demerit other musicians to elevate Vander's figure?
@@elrataalada3568 Demerit? Who demerited anyone? Cool down.
I remember when I 1st heard this track and my mind was also blown. Without a doubt, a prog masterwork.
For sure
One of my faves, it was great watching your reaction
Thanks for your video. This is not prog. this is Zeuhl.
Love, love, love, to see you do " Solar Musick Suite" from Steve Hillage (1974) . All the members of Gong, minus Daevid Allen, + Dave Stewart
czcams.com/video/0c5HHouLE38/video.html
exactly, why did we not hear this earlier in our lives. as a young kid in the south/midwest US I was subjected to 38 Special "Caught Up in You" over and over, forced me to turn the radio off. Since then discovered much music with the help of friends from other places.
Wonderful reaction, thank you Dean! Christian composed the language. It is very organic
Hi Laurent! thank-you sir!
Oh my goood
Funny how he reacts to Vander drumming and his 4\4 over 6/8 ….crazy….
I was in the audience every night - it started at 12 PM…until…..i don’t remember. And the beginnings of the late Didier Lockwood on violin
_Le bassiste Bernard Pananotti est un très grand jazzman.
Le violoniste Didier lockwood était un fabuleux violoniste.
Ces 2 là ont apporté beaucoup d'armonies dans Magma.
Avec Vander le clavier superbe et les chants c'était sublime....
Et j'ai eu la chance de les voir à ce concert de1975.......
_Bassist Bernard Pananotti is a great jazzman.
The violinist Didier Lockwood was a fabulous violinist.
These 2 brought a lot of harmonies to Magma.
With Vander the superb keyboard and the vocals it was sublime....
And I had the chance to see them at this concert in 1975....
French quality !
Vander - the greatest drummer ever.
I saw them live just once ,last year in Paris. It was a mind blowing, emotional , spiritual experience. I came in hoping they would play my latest favorite, Theusz Hamtaahk, but they ended up playing Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré in its entirety. Hhai is part of the track Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré II, and was I think better than this version. I loved that Christian Vander said to his guitar and bass players before the band started Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré " On va faire des heureux ce soir" , we will make people happy tonight . He was absolutely right :)
_Je les ai vu au théâtre de Chaillot à Paris en 1975 en répétition puis le concert le soir. Et je peux dire que on ne sort pas indem tellement Magma et d'une puissance magique. Et Christian Vander le batteur compositeur viens vraiment d'une autre planète. Je l'écoute encore avec émotion. Ta vidéo est très sympa.🙏
_saw them at the Chaillot theater in Paris in 1975 in rehearsal then the concert in the evening. And I can say that we do not come out unscathed so much Magma and magical power. And Christian Vander, the drummer-composer, really comes from another planet. I still listen to it with emotion. Your video is very nice.🙏
Thank you. Lucky you!
RIP Didier Lockwood on violin.
The violin is played by the great Didier Lockwood
Aha.....Didier Lockwood was a French jazz violinist. He played in the progressive rock/jazz fusion band Magma in the 1970s, and was known for his use of electric amplification and his experimentation with different sounds on the electric violin. Wikipedia
oh oh oh excellent notre bon vieux Magma national redécouvert de l'autre côté de la Manche.
La meilleure version de Hhaï !!!
Welcome in Magma worlds ;)
It was indeed a violin, and it was Didier Lockwood, no less...
It was really his beginnings on electric violin
He had just played classical before
imagine the reaction if he was actually there
Kobaïa iss!
Hhai from Kobaia, Dean! The lyrics aren't French, they are Kobaian, a language created by Christian Vander.
I would love to see you react to Magma-kohntarkosz live 2005
To discover the band there is this playlist !! ;-)
czcams.com/play/PLz5KhoTjo9ibWc2msbn0Edp9uXJyg9rsU.html
Not French. Kobaïan. An language completely invented by Christian Vander. Their discography is ALL concept based, around a science fiction concept of people who escaped a dying Earth to colonize another planet, and their struggles to deal with later immigrants from dying Earth. I had heard the band name but was completely unfamiliar with them, but saw them headline NearFest in 2007, and my mind was blown, my gob was smacked. Truly astonishing performance, and I am now of course a lifelong fan.
You should try Zess👌
👍
Magma is a strange band. That song you just reviewed is decades old, but it got a proper studio recording in 2009, if you liked the 1975 version, I strongly suggest you listen to the modern studio version, much better in my opinion. It's on the album called "Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré", Hhaï is on the second track. You can listen here : czcams.com/video/bW4B6-A8Wcw/video.html
Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré" is but a pale shadow of what it has inside... Magma Live from 1975 is by far the best Magma experience one can have.
I actually quite enjoyed that, thanks for the recommendation.
Watch Trinion 200….Destruktow Commando….it’s simply unbelievable…live and incredible video.