MAGMA

French prog auteurs defy the years and fly in the face of the impending apocalypse to find a little unexpected light in the darkness.

Sid Smith, Dave Everley

prog.reviews@futurenet.com Never underestimate the amount of willpower required to keep a band in touch with the muse. Money helps, of course, but without the spark, the vision and the drive to engage in the creative act that transforms ideas into actual dots on paper or real sound punctuating the air, there’s little else to prevent any long-lived band to become a walking, talking, all-singing ghost in the greatest hits machine. Consider then, the reserves and effort needed to maintain the pulse and credibility of one of progressive music’s most unlikely cohorts. Having created a new genre in the shape of Zeuhl and bringing along legions of devoted fans through all its numerous changes, Christian Vander has been Magma’s brooding heart for 50 years. In more recent times, his dark charisma…

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