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Magma play 17/10 at the Kesselhaus…another hard choice for people in the area. I planned on seeing Magma live the 18th (Brussels) but now of course MP in Hengelo it will be. Oh well, guess I hope some day my dream of a double Magma/MP bill will come thru, that would probably be the best concert in my life! (which would of course last for 5 hours or more and into eternity!) 8O
@The Other Anders ; exactly what I'm thinking whenever I see the setlists (although it's fun); they could play 7 versions of 'star spangled banner'for all I care and still blow the roof off! Some MP concerts I went to didn't have a surprising setlist (2018: more The Tower, again) and yet could be a very special and surprising experience, as MP always guarantees adventure.
Wow, that's great. Strawinsky is probably my longest loved modern composer.Les Noces (the wedding) is a piece exactly sounding like a rather chaotic gathering of guests the Russian folky way, finally to be brought to peace and to a mystical level by the singing of the priest and the ringing of the bells.
Strawinsky has written a lot of incredible pieces, and I can see relations to MP music, like dynamics and often overwhelmingly beautiful melodies that are always used economically. The finale of the firebird is one example, a great melody developing in it's voicing and power to become a supernova in sound, a lot like some MP stuff we know and love!
If you 'know' Strawinsky's well known classics, I recommend getting into pieces like Appolo Musagete or the Psalm Symphony. They are at first complex and hard to get but very rewarding music in the end, something like growing to love The Crucible !
Been listening a lot to Magma these past 3 weeks and hear some Strawinsky there as well, like in Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh,and even more in the children's choir version of it:Baba Yaga,
some Russian folk singing in the Strawinsky/Vander way.
Always good to hear from MP what music they're listening to, and I hope this will indeed shine through in their coming compositions. Since they mentioned the string quartets of Bela Bartok, those are up for me now, more modern-classic masterpieces carrying seeds of recent MP pieces.
In Holland we had a band from Nijmegen in the 80's named Bazooka, they did a great exploration of their own "Strawinsky as a rock band" thing, best album of theirs is called "A Igor S. "
Thanx for that link, Punj, fun to watch! And I'll try to fulfill that adagium "every human should have seen Magma live at least once" in october Brussels. Today their boxset of 12 live cd's will arrive (that means I've allready spent my fun-budget for this month) and it's a perfect rainy day to further explore their stuff, while working on some of my paintings!Maybe this should have been filed under "Motorpsycho and…" but I now see the influence of Magma compositional structures on KFFF, which is certainly not a bad thing, so I posted within this thread.
Hello @TrustMe, that's fantastisk, buddy! You're sure to have a blast at the concert! And a warning: you'll get addicted to seeing them live immediately. Like you, I went to my first concert (10-2017) after having been a collector and fan since longtime (early nineties), and I remember clearly afterwards shouting out in the parkinglot what a fool I am for not having attended their concerts earlier on!Their albums are great, but live performances are the bigger ballgame!
Hope to hear from you a lot on the forum,
I finally got around to exploring the music of French cultband Magma, youtubed around a bit starting at 22.00 yesterday, thought at first 'this must be the most terrible hippie-dippie hysteric opera menstruation music kind of earache thing' (mostly caused by the sound quality of the early seventies videoclip and their appearance), then getting fascinated (these guys are doing a thing of their own and know what they're doing) at around 1.00 a.m., and finally realised at about 4.00 a.m. that I will most probably dig deep into this almost 50 year old collective and it was time for sleep. …woke up this morning and heard Konsert For Folk Flest resounding in my inner ear! Then I made the connection: Magma are yet another great band covering MPmaterial !(joking) :wink: :idea: (the more, the better, from both of them, and long may they reign!)
For me The Tower stands strong from day one, and these songs and especially how they are played live mostly convey Energy & Creativity to me (I would say more moving my body than my heart this time). It's not that I demand every MPpiece to move me to tears, they can convey allsorts to you.
When I see/hear Tomas play these crazy, daring drumbreaks during Dreamhome (Rockpalast) it makes me shout out WOOOOO!!! although I never aspired to be someone who shouts out wooooo I cannot help myself, it's the energy, the sheer musicianship-craziness that moves me here.
As for my account of where MP gets me in the heart these days; the song that touches my feeling/heart/soul the most after a long but in no way boring MP-time (in fact since Konsert for folk flest-the Grandioso finale) is Lux Aeterna, not only the melody of the chorus, but especially Snah's wailing, lyrical guitarplaying over the 'bluesy'part after the crazy 'speedjazz'part. They haven't lost that, nowadays it probably won't be a heartbreaking one-take lowfi song that will make your eyes water, it's more incorporated into the whole of a piece I think.
In the end, I'm a believer in bringing body, mind and heart to harmony, in becoming one, to be able to really be able to Human. Musically, I see MP in their 30year growth going there as well. When these 3 aspects are one, the truly great entity will be born, halleluwah!
@ffBernie; it's great to be able to enjoy this video archive, the evenings when I'm yearning for the next MPshow, which for me will be up in may (Netherlands). I'm surely not the only one turning the volume up and wig out on my own behind my laptop here! A question which I asked some time ago; are you able (now) to upload Lux Aeterna from the Doornroosje Nijmegen gig 12-2018? One of those first impressions that for me meant a great lot when it happened, in fact still dream about that sensation; what the hell went off there! Thanks for all this lux(us) anyways! Guys like you and ThorEgil deserve the specialdeluxe MPmedal, and lifelong free admission to their shows for what you do for all of us nauties!
@Punj Lizard Looking forward to that, Punj, not only can we wig out to MP side by side, but hopefully discuss Snah's strings and equipment as well a lot! :lol:
@Punj Lizard; yeah, I get that (upstairs?downstairs), nice. As for me having a hard-on for knocking the proggies: I used to listen a lot to Yes, KC (still do), Tull, even to cassette-tapes of Camel, Asia and whatnot, shared with some classmates, end 70's beginning 80's. For a lot of it I've lost interest but that's not what gives me "softy"! What I've come to dislike is the endless blabbering of proggy-friends of the past not about the music-experience, but about bandmembers, gear, statistics etc, as a cult in itself. Listening to impressive music, and then guys shouting out above the music things like: "you know, he's using these so and so strings here"… I just can't stand that. So therefore it may seem like I condemn all things prog (which I don't). :roll:
And; I'd just like us as forum members to not only sum up, but to express as well.
Guys, as recognisable (and extended) your accounts are, I don't read a lot about what the music
does for you on the emotional level. I hold MP so dear not just for their amazing history and catalogue and their working ethics, it's the huge part of my life they "soundtracked". It's the mystery of songs like Manmower or Sungravy still bringing the tears to my eyes, they helped me shout out with anger, joy, helped me grief, as well as made me think and explore which belongs to the brain-stuff. I think putting feeling/emotion into words (words belong to the brainy section of being, and as Wittgenstein explains cannot at all be trusted) is a very difficult thing, but I believe the reasons most of us are so attached to this Trondheim group is just that emotional bonding, where the language of their music speaks to your heart. How about trying to share what goes through you when you play Grindstone very very loud, what did you almost smash up in the room, how young and vulnerable do you feel when you listen, REALLY listen to something like the Ballad of Patrick and Putrick, etc? Just summing up when and where you found which album is to mea lot like the boring proggies talk in the schoolyard back in the day…
Great photography, Thor, thank you. Even if I can't hear the music of this gig, by looking at your pics I can very much understand the energy of it! :STG:
Did Tomas take the front of the stage here? (he deserves it!)
Caught myself whistling the title track while taking a shower this morning :lol:
And: at my local ElderYouthPlayRecords club the evening before I've played them Hogwash from the Four Norsemen Of The Apocalyps dvd, after which the Knights of the Turntable were silent for a minute and then one of the gentlemen remarked: after this, what is there to put on next!
