The 14th album from this band from France.
The band is a ten members plus entity this time with a lineup of drums, tambourine, percussion, bass, guitars, organ, piano, keyboards and vocals.
Magma is one of the big bands in the progressive rock umbrella genre. They are the creators and the biggest band in the Zeuhl genre.
Zeuhl is a genre impossible to describe. It is a fantastic genre too..... at it's best.
Magma's take on zeuhl has on their previoust thirteen albums, plus their live albums, been both brutal, jazzy and quite gentle. But never really dull or irrelevant.
Magma has gone down the more harmonic and female choir path on this album. The rhythms are still there but the compositions on this forty minutes is not particular dissonant.
It is my understanding that most of this album is recording of left over compositons from the 1970s too.
The music is still good and a timely reminder about how good this band was and still is. This is not one of their best albums or even one of their better albums. It is still an album worthy of their name.
3 points
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