What Magma album do you anyone recommend?

IGNEO1991 wrote: Hello just wondering what you recommend to purchase to begin with... im interested in a possible heavier/ jazz like album?..i listened to the track on progarchives from the album ' Köhntarkösz' and thought it sounded very good. Does anyone recommend this one? ....need help   -Thanks   -Ryan

My two cents... if you enjoyed the Köhntarkösz sample, just start there.  Every single one of Magma's albums has a different sound, so it's best to go by whatever sounds best to you.  Köhntarkösz is definitely the 'heaviest' Magma (it's intense, manipulative and elegant - much less chaotic-sounding than most of their music; it's still huge and flamboyant by most people's standards, but by Magma standards it's subtle!), and probably the 'proggiest' sounding also.

If it's 'jazzy' you're after, try 1001 Degrés Centigrades - but bear in mind that it's much closer to actual 'jazz proper' than it is to jazz rock/fusion.  (I would probably avoid the début (Kobaïa/Magma) as an introduction to Magma - for reasons of length, weirdness and being less typical perhaps of their overall sound.)

I will agree with previous recommendations to check out emusic.com, especially as you could grab Retrospektïw I-II (flamboyantly fantastic live album!) for only two download credits.

Happy listening.

Evan wrote: Everything except Merci is excellent.  The fact that most here are recommending the album they started with goes to show that it doesn't really matter where you hop in.

For anybody who doesn't feel ready to plunge into MDK, I recommend Attahk.