Rare Magma Video from 72, 75 and 76 Released on YouTube

From the vaults of INA come these amazing, fantastic archives from Magma from the early and mid 1970s. The video from 1972 is from the Dixie Club in Montpellier. Two of the snippets are from the Theater de Taur concert in Toulouse in late September 1975. Another snippet is allegedly from early 1976.

INA is the gift that keeps on giving. An incredible amount of amazing live footage has been made available since they decided to open up their vaults a few years ago.

There is one other 5 minute clip from 1972 that might be floating around. Also, there are rumors that a Russian collector has some clips from 1976 featuring the VanderTop incarnation of the group.

Every year, we manage to get new surprises. Last year was the KA Rehearsals. This year is the release of the INA videos.

Stella ... make us happy in 2012 !!!

Magma Family - Le Triton, July 2, 2011

Once again, Mr. Issehn has shared a nice video of the people (band and fans) who were present at the recent series of concerts at Le Triton. I will give you one nickel for each fan that you recognize.

It's Always Nice When Others Play Magma

Rare Video - Art Zoyd and Univers Zero - Nancy Jazz Pulsations, 1980

I do not know where my friend Rafael found this ... but here is an amazing video of Univers Zero and Art Zoyd playing at the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival in 1980.

This video must have just been uncovered, because both Guy Segers (ex UZ bass) and Gerard Hourbette (Art Zoyd) said that they had never seen this video before.

Are there any more videos of UZ and AZ out there?

I have said it once and I will say it again .... when rare videos like this are uncovered, it gives me hope that more videos of old Magma will surface.

A Few of the Recent Le Triton Shows are on DIME

User "shadow" from Italy posted a number of the concerts from the recent Retrospective series at Le Triton. He has posted concerts 5 through 8.

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=364995

Here is his generic description of all of the shows:

Magma
'Mythes et légendes-Le retour'
Le Triton, Les Lilas (France)
July 2, 2011

Eight hours of music, four separate two-hour concerts. This was the challenge Christian Vander laid down to his musicians in January 2005. They picked up the gauntlet and ran with it. Full houses for three weeks representing the essential repertoire of the mythical Magma: 'Mythes et légendes'. The concerts were filmed and 4 dvds, Epok 1-2-3-4, were released between 2006 et 2007. 

A few days ago The Triton at Les Lilas (near Paris) had Magma back for a 'résidence' during which they assembled more than an hour's worth of material composed between 1971 and 1979 which did not appear on the 4 Epok disks. The result has been heard over the series of 8 concerts, some of which have been filmed to complete the dvd collection.

This is Day 8 - July 2, 2011.


Christian Vander : drums, voice on 'Félicité Thosz'
Stella Vander : voice, percussion
Isabelle Feuillebois : voice, percussion
Hervé Aknin : voice, percussion
Bruno Ruder : Fender Rhodes
Benoit Alziary : vibraphone, theremin
James Mac Gaw : guitar, Fender Rhodes on 'MDK singalong'
Philippe Bussonnet : bass guitar


set 1 [50.55]

1-01. special intro (Merci d'être venu ce soir)
1-02. Attahk (a.k.a. Retrovision)
1-03. applause, talk
1-04. Riah Sahiltaahk
1-05. applause, talk (intermission)


set 2 [89.00]

2-01. Dondai
2-02. applause, talk
2-03. Felicite Thosz
2-04. Slag Tanz
2-05. applause, band introduction
2-06. (encore) Maahnt
2-07. applause, talk
2-08. special conclusion (MDK singalong)


master, audience recording
Edirol R09 (internal mics) > SoundForge 9.0 (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (FLACs and checksum file)
this torrent * July 13, 2011 * shadow 2011 

RIP Francois "Faton" Cahen

Francois "Faton" Cahen, the first piano player of Magma, and a contributor to their first two albums, passed away today of a heart attack. He was also a long-time collaborator with Yochko Seffer.

RIP Faton.

Reflections on Le Triton from Tim

A Cup of Tim has posted a series of images, each image summing up his reflection of each piece that Magma played at Le Triton.

Click on each image to reveal the song.

Can you guess which song is depicted below?