Witches’ Brew

They explored the hidden lives of classic horror movie stars on 2020’s Masters Of Illusion and now Magenta have turned to cunning folk to conjure up their first orchestral album, The White Witch – A Symphonic Trilogy. Robert Reed and Christina Booth talk to Prog about old horror flicks, medieval healers and dreams of the Royal Albert Hall.

David West

“It would be nice to do the Royal Albert Hall. There might only be about 100 people in there, but it would still be nice to do something there. You never know.”Christine Booth Forget eye of newt, toe of frog, wing of bat and tongue of dog, the magic ingredients in The White Witch – A Symphonic Trilogy were nagging and a restless hankering for something new. With their ninth studio record, Magenta have embraced the symphonic, crafting an album with an orchestra assembled from instruments both real and sampled to tell the story of witches through the ages. “I always get bored doing the same thing over and over again, really, so I wanted to try something a little different,” says Robert Reed, who wrote the music that’s accompanied…

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