FLOË ËSSI / ËKTAH

This is the first of many Magma albums I will sink my teeth into during the coming weeks/ months/years. The reason is that a girlfriend gave me Magma complete a week ago as a get-well-soon present. I am also a newbeginner in the Zeuhl genre.

This EP starts out like something Matching Mole could had done. The jazz elements then comes kicking in and a type of male and female vocals which I have never heard anything like before. I guess that's what they call Zeuhl. The music is not millions of light-years away from Canterbury so I am not totally lost in this landscape. I feel there is features in this landscape I know pretty well from other genres.

This EP is only nine minutes long and I see from the CDs I got that Magma operates best around twenty minutes. These two songs is therefore not representative for Magma, I believe. But these nine minutes are good enough to make me want to investigate the rest of their discography.

3 stars