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Magma

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Kohntarkosz is almost doom metal. All the suite (that's divided in two parts due to vinyls) is a slow piece that is dominated by the Jannick Top's bass and the synthesizers.

The first part of the Kohntarkosz suite is something very dark. Many bands of the avant-garde rock movement from France and Belgium adopted the heaviness of this album (and obviously of all the Magma's discography) to make albums that sound like a desesperate serpent in a box.

I want everyone to listen the piano from the 6 minutes to forward. Tell me if there's another thing that can beat that enigmatic and dark sound! The choral voices whisper "�ts, �ts" for so much minutes, making this song very atmospheric and "quiet" (if you know what i mean). Incredibly amazing (10/10)

The second part of the Kohntarkosz suite is more rough, leaving the slow tempo to a more jazz-rock tempo. This part (around the 6:33 minutes) is one of my favourites parts of the album. The drums sound like an AK-47. How can humans make songs like this? (10/10)

The rest of the album is completed by Ork Alarm, that is like "chamber rock", in the vein of Univers Zero and Art Zoyd and Coltrane S�ndia (this one being a homage to John Coltrane: Coltrane Rest In Peace -in kobaian-).

These two songs are not as good as the Kohntarkosz suite, but it's ok.

A classic record by the classic period of Magma.

mau | 5/5 | 2012-8-18

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