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Polo ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Location: Joao Pessoa, BR Status: Offline Points: 89 |
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Jazz-rock/zeuhl band from France.
Part of their discography is available for free streaming here: http://grooveshark.com/#/artist/Magma/152326
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js ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 34399 |
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This is probably the third time they have been suggested. Right now we are holding off on big name rock acts and concentrating on the thousands of jazz artists we need to add.
Not a bad suggestion at all, and they will probably be added someday down the line, but they are on hold for now.
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Polo ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Location: Joao Pessoa, BR Status: Offline Points: 89 |
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Oh, weird. I did a search before posting this thread and there were no results at all.
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Abraxas ![]() JMA Collaborator ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 Mar 2011 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 1251 |
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Not your fault. I suggested them once, but the title of the thread didn't have 'Magma' on it.
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Polo ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Location: Joao Pessoa, BR Status: Offline Points: 89 |
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Hey Pablo. Looks like you left PA for JMA for good
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Abraxas ![]() JMA Collaborator ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 Mar 2011 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 1251 |
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Yes, you're right. I was exhausted of PA, but in a good way, I think I managed to take all the juice of it, I had to move on hehe. I miss a couple of guys from there though, but I really have no interest yet in going back, unless for some casual chat. Mind you, I still love Prog, but not anymore totally into it and I have no desire in keep discussing same ol' things, hence why my last months in there were mainly jazz/fusion/other focused.
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darkshade ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 1973 |
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I realize you've been missing on the forums. Whatever, PA has tons of members anyway, this is the new PA!!!
![]() Pablo, you're like me in 2007 and most of 2008; when I was bored with prog rock, and was only listening to jazz, funk, fusion, world music, etc... I completely stopped going on PA and if I wanted to look stuff up for jazz I used wiki or AAJ. I remember slowly coming back when Miles Davis got added to PA. and now.... ![]() |
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Moshkito ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 15 Aug 2011 Location: Vancouver, WA Status: Offline Points: 42 |
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Hi,
Magma is a tough addition to either rock, or jazz. I think that it has more in common with a jazz process than it does rock idioms. Their musical themes do not tend to be in a sonata-like forms like most of rock music is and way too much progressive music ALSO is. In this sense, Magma would fit better in a jazz area, than it would a "progressive" music area.
Magma probably should be listed as jazz, in a fusion type of way, because that is what it is ... even if the vocals throw too many people off, which is something that most "jazz" afficcionados usually object to ... and Magma's use of the vocals are as an "instrument", and not as a normal vocal following the melodies in music, and that in itself is a very jazz-like concept and idea ... that was quite well developed in the 20th century in classical music!
In many ways, Magma is what Carl Orff would sound like without an orchestra, and have electric instruments instead, and this is the supposition that we have a hard time envisioning. But if you ever talk to Christian by himself or with Stella, they are very private and he will tell you stories and books and things he has read and used to read that inspired him to create what he did ... but then, how do you explain him having so many cuts devoted to Coltrane? ... he said he does the same thing with the vocals and the bass ... but we aren't capable of getting off the piano. His drumming? ... he says that it barely supports what he does ... he thinks that his role is to make sure that the musicians do not lose their spot in the "script".
It's a very nice evolution and visionary way to look at music ... and in many ways saying it is jazz, is not quite right, saying that it is rock is worse, and saying that it is progressive, is downright wrong. Again, it has more similarities with classical music and jazz than it does anything else.
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