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The next Magma concert is scheduled for Sunday, July 6, 2025 at Es Paradis Ibiza in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Spain. See all 27 upcoming concerts
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About Magma
Hometown
Paris, France
Formed
1969
Genre
Jazz
Magma, the Paris-based creation of drummer Christian Vander, trafficked in a bizarre mix of progressive rock and sci-fi mythology that stretched conceptual limits in the '70s. Taking as inspiration a revelation Vander had of humanity's bleak spiritual and ecological future, the group conceived a mythic narrative surrounding a future conflict between descendents of Earth refugees on the planet Kobaia and their foes, newly arrived Earth colonists (Vander, incredibly, wrote all Magma's lyrics in his self-invented Kobaian language). The group released a series of challenging works that referenced everything from Coltrane's jazz modes to the stubbornly chromatic tonalities of Stravinsky -- a style Vander dubbed "zuehl" (Kobaian for "celestial"). The group had disbanded by the early '80s, but Vander revived Magma in the late '90s to record and tour.
Members of Magma include, or have included, Bernard Paganotti, Marc Eliard, Claude Engel, Didier Lockwood, Christian Vander, Simon Goubert, Pierre Dutour, Teddy Lasry, Marc Fosset, Benoit Widemann, Patrick Gauthier, Michel Graillier, Dominique Bertram, Richard, Raux, Emmanuel Borghi, Claude Salmieri, Laurent Thibault, Yochk'o Seffer, François Cahen, Philippe Bussonnet, Antoine Paganotti, Stella Vander, Michel Hervé, Pierre Michel Sivadier, Moze, and Sylvie Fisichella.
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