Amoeba Music

By Oliver Hall

Magma is a French group led by drummer Christian Vander.  Magma’s music integrates elements of spacerock, jazz, progressive rock and orchestral music in a new genre called Zeuhl.  The music is conceptually unified by Vander’s science fiction mythology.  All Magma songs are sung from the point of view of the Kobaïan people, who will, according to the stories elaborated on Magma records, emigrate from Earth to another planet and return years later; for this reason, all Magma songs are in Kobaïan, a language invented by Vander.  In a 1995 interview with George Allen for Perfect Sound Forever, Vander said, “Back in 1966, I had written a piece and I was already in a band with... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Progressive

City Of Origin:

Paris, France

Formed Date:

1969