There is almost no useful frame of reference to describe the music of Magma. Founded in 1969 by French pianist/drummer Christian Vander, Magma have never conformed to conventional ideas about genre, ...

TO LIFE, DEATH AND BEYOND: THE MUSIC OF MAGMA is a feature film that explores one of the most visionary and innovative music of the last 50 years, Magma. It takes the audience on a journey through ...

Formed by drummer Christian Vander in Paris in 1969, Magma have made a career of defying convention, and the fact that they’re still actively recording and playing live today is an astonishing gift.

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French zeuhl legends Magma have created their very first music video, for the track Hakëhn Deïs, which they have premiered with Prog Magazine and you can watch below. "In our career spanning over 50 ...

French progressive rock/Zeuhl legends Magma were initially around from 1969 to 1984, but they returned in 1996 after a 12-year break and they’ve been going strong ever since. They last released the ...

Even the most conceptually aggregated rock bands usually stop short of creating their own language. Call them prog, call them avant-garde, call them way out, but Magma founder Christian Vander took ...

Progressive rock started out as a largely British phenomenon in the late ’60s but quickly mutated when it spread to the European continent and beyond. The artists who pioneered the genre attempted to ...