| KÖHNTARKÖSZ | CD REX VIII |
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Christian
VANDER
drums, percussions, vocals, piano Jannick TOP bass, vocals, piano, cello Klaus BLASQUIZ vocals, percussions Gérard BIKIALO piano, organ Michel GRAILLER piano, clarinet Stella VANDER vocals Brian GODDING guitar |
1 - KÖHNTARKÖSZ (part 1) |
Not
being a man who tended to sit on his laurels Christian VANDER decided,
with KOHNTARKOSZ, recorded in 1974, to set off in a completely new musical
direction, putting anyone who expected a simple encore to MEKANIK DESTRUKTIW
KOMMANDOH straight onto the back foot.
Fortified by the success of the last album, the majority of musicians would be delighted to lay back into their own style and play safe. Not so for VANDER, who was driven to surpass himself, to bring to birth a new masterwork. Considered against the other albums, KOHNTARKOSZ (the composition) used a profoundly original approach to lift the rhythmic pulse and float it above the music, so that instead of marking time it continually sits above the metre. The savage virtuoso drumming of the earlier albums is here replaced by a more restrained approach, in which every stick hit seems to weigh twenty tons by contrast. The result is a mysterious incandescent atmosphere which holds the listener in breathless thrall right up to the explosive finale. If, when compared with M.D.K., the sound of the band has changed significantly, with the monster bass foundation laid down by Jannick TOP and the other-worldly keyboard playing come to the fore at the expense of the vocal work, the spirit of MAGMA nevertheless remains intact. This spirit is also found in ORK ALARM, TOPês first composition for MAGMA, and the final piece, COLTRANE SUNDIA, a vibrant and heartfelt tribute to John COLTRANE, the inspiration for all this marvellous music. |
| Recorded by the Manor Mobile in BASTIDE DE PIERREFEU (Valbonne) | in 1974 by Simon HEYWORTH. |
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