Magma vs Caravan

SuperMetro wrote: Caravan by a lot. How are you supposed to understand a band that makes their own language. I mean, it influenced me that any music even the great PFM and Banco were listenable. But, PFM and Banco are actually speaking a language, not this Kobian ehhh, whatever it is called. Caravan has more melodic music and feels more like rock music than chanting.

How are you at understanding purely instrumental music?

I mostly listen to albums/ works for the music, not for the lyrics. I listen to a lot of instrumental-only music and albums in languages I don't speak and I don't look up the meanings or translations, well, rarely.

Music itself is a kind of language I would say and I can "get" music, or come to own interpretation and appreciation at least, if I feel like I have some understanding of the idiom. What matters to me is that the music connects with me somehow, even if in a very abstract way. I was first into classical works without lyrics. By the way, my Kobaian is not too bad (know a lot of the words) but the language is more about the sound so I treat it like another instrument. And I love chants, and dissonant music, and non rock-music.

pretty close race but in my view Caravan is undoubtedly superior