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	Magma (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in 1969 by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him.
		Beyond Christian Vander, the drummer/composer, the most well-known of the original Magma lineup was probably Jannick Top, the bassist/co-composer (who has gone on to produce albums for Celine Dion).
		Wurdah Ïtah may technically be a Christian Vander solo project, in that it was composed entirely by him, bore his name during its original release as the soundtrack for the film Tristan et Iseult, and did not feature all of Magma's then-current musicians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magma_(band) (772 words)

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		Vander gathered players from all over the country who were dissatisfied with the typical French habit of slavishly copying American or British rock and jazz musicians.
		Vander's vision was grand, and apocalyptic: He developed a concept for Magma's recorded output, proposing a nine-part sci-fi-ish opus that would tell the story of the Kobaians, who'd fled the degradation of life on Earth and settled on another planet, only to find they'd dragged Earth's miseries along with them; the solution was annihilation.
		Christian Vander's drive toward a deeply personal music mirrors that of his countryman Claude Debussy, who at one point began billing himself as "Claude Debussy, musicien français." In order to create a new kind of music, Vander invented, finally, a music that was unique to France, yet rarely sounds remotely French.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=6128 (852 words)

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		This year, however, Pastor George Vander Weit of North Hills CRC in the Detroit suburb of Troy is trying to blow the whistle on Klassen and the other four members of the Interclassical Conference interim committee.
		Vander Weit objected to a letter sent by the interim committee to all CRC member churches announcing a conference this November in suburban Chicago to respond to Synod 1996's decision to continue to allow the ordination of women elders and ministers.
		In the letter's final sentence, Vander Weit indicated that his letter to the members of the Interclassical Conference interim committee might not be the end of the matter.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/reformed/archive96/nr96-095.txt (897 words)

	Gnosis Ratings
		Under the leadership of drummer/vocalist/chief conceptualist Christian Vander, Magma so thoroughly reinvented the wheel aligned between jazz and rock that any preconceived critical strategy for appraising their aesthetic is rendered woefully inadequate to the task, akin to demonstrating the grandeur of the Sistine Chapel with the use of stick figures.
		Vander's side long contribution, "Riah Sahiltaahk", introduces his penchant for phrase repetition as both a lyrical and a musical device, and his use of syncopation and instrumental counterpoint as a means to counteract the potential monotony of prolonged repetition.
		Vander's drumming is exceptional, subtly avoiding the spotlight while providing enough rhythmic variation and complexity to keep the melodic repetition from becoming overbearing.
	gnosis2000.net /reviews/magmainfo.htm (5244 words)

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		Heavily active in ecclesiastical affairs at an age when most men in better health choose to enjoy their retirement, Vander Kam made clear that his concept of an enjoyable retirement was planting seminaries, founding congregations, and becoming a key figure in the founding of a new denomination.
		After leaving the Christian Reformed denomination in 1992, Vander Kam devoted much of his time to the church order study committee of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, a group of 55 congregations with 10,800 members, most of which have left the CRC in recent years.
		Vander Kam is survived by his wife Elaine, two daughters and three sons, and over ten grandchildren.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/reformed/archive96/nr96-003.txt (849 words)

	Magma (band) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Over the course of several albums, Vander tells the story of a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the planet Kobaia.
		A remarkable aspect of Magma's albums is that Vander actually invented a (Click link for more info and facts about constructed language) constructed language, Kobaian, in which most lyrics are sung.
		Beyond (Click link for more info and facts about Christian Vander) Christian Vander, the drummer/composer, the most well-known of the original Magma lineup was probably Jannick Top, the bassist/co-composer (who has gone on to produce albums for Celine Dion).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magma_(band).htm (601 words)

	Popular Music and Society: Apocalyptic otherness: black music and extraterrestrial identity in the music of Magma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the final months of the 1960s, drummer Christian Vander had a vision of an "eternal" music saga, concerning the future disintegration of Earth and the subsequent efforts of a few citizens to begin a new society on the distant planet Kobaia.
		Vander also decided that this new music was not to be sung in his native French; he thought the French language sounded weak (Lake 18).
		Although Christian Vander is white, his music and cosmology have interesting parallels with the theories of Jones and Corbett, demonstrating that perhaps their conceptions of "otherness" are not strictly racially bounded after all.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_4_26/ai_111507220/pg_1 (1319 words)

	Magma (band)
		Over the course of several albums, Vander sought to tell the story of a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the planet Kobaia.
		The most novel aspect of Magma's albums was that Vander actually invented a constructed language, Kobaian, in which all the lyrics were sung.
		So many musicians played with Magma over the years, who then went on to form their own solo projects and/or spinoff acts, that the term Zeuhl was created to refer to these bands and the French jazz fusion/symphonic rock scene that grew around them.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magma__band_.html (565 words)

	CHRISTIAN VANDER
		Christian VANDER was born on February 21st 1948.
		This was an important stage for Christian VANDER as it showed a return to his roots in MAGMA.
		Between 1992 and 1995 Christian VANDER directed the group LES vocals DE MAGMA, comprised of a dozen musicians and singers.
	www.seventhrecords.com /CVANDER/biovanderuk.html (483 words)

	Progressive Rock Reviews - M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vander himself comes up with some of the classic "Magma screams" in this language, so this, uh, charming part of Magma's sound was already developed.
		Side A is made up by the epic "Riah Sahiltaahk", composed by Christian Vander, which is nothing short of a freak-show, and the album's finest third of an hour.
		The part which I like best is perhaps "Nebehr Gudahtt", in which Vander, both with the voice and the drums, at the climax of a long crescendo goes completely mad.
	fredrikoo.tripod.com /m.html (2741 words)

	ProgRockMain
		Led by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander- the son of a jazz pianist, Vander initially followed in his father's footsteps, modeling his technique on the work of John Coltrane alumni- Elvin Jones and starting his career with a number of jazz and RandB outfits.
		Within months, Christian Vander's new band- Offering was born, moving further and deeper into the more acoustic Coltrane-inspired Jazz directions.
		Vander was free to explore new avenues that were unsuited to the seventies Magma style.
	progrock.homestead.com /Magma.html (554 words)

	Magma Web Press Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christian: The words are conceived, or come, at the same time as the composition.
		Christian: Not long ago I listened to the first record again, and I was happy to hear that there are a lot of good things on it.
		Christian: l've just finished a record that I composed between 1982 and 1997, which is called Les Cygnes Et Les Corbeaux (The Swans And The Ravens).
	ddesassis.free.fr /magma/textes/2003/md.htm (2333 words)

	Univers Zero - A Chronology
		This Soft Machine inspired band was called on to support the sublime Magma on their 1972 Belgium tour after which Christian Vander invited Denis and the keyboard player for Achime, Jean-Luc Manderlier, to join Magma.
		Christian Genet departed due to ominous "problems" and was replaced during the RIO concert by Art Zoyd's Thierry Zaboitzeff.
		Notice here that Christian Genet plays bass on Present's debut: he seemed to be gravitating back towards Univers Zero at this point but it was not until 1984 until he actually returned.
	www.kime.org.uk /PK/music/articles/uz/uz-chron.html (1815 words)

	Comments on Magma’s visit to the Danish Multimusic festival in Silkeborg July 1977
		Magma were: Christian Vander, Klaus Blasquiz, Stella Vander, Benoit Widemann, Clement Bailly (dr, keys, voc), Jean de Antony (guit), Guy Delacroix (bass), Florence Berthauld (voc), Lisa Bois (voc).
		There were persistant rumours that Vander and other members of Magma jammed with danish folkmusicians in the evening, and there were rumours that (both)Vander’s and Bailly played a smallscale version of Köhntarköz for drums, singing and piano, on a local pub between 3 and 4 in the morning,
		It is (hereunder visually) documented that Vander, Wiedemann and Bailly jammed with a danish "jazz-influenced" band called "Hos Anna" (It means: At Anna’s).
	www.danbbs.dk /~m-bohn/magma/comments.htm (428 words)

	Ground and Sky review - Christian Vander - To Love
		There are lyrics to this one, but they are in English, which is obviously not Vander's first language (sample: "If you glory the one you can be a soul," "Here now he begins to love/ He is all love/ He is OM OM OM").
		Combine these sorts of things with a non-native pronunciation weighting down a generally strong emotional delivery, and the end result is that it sounds really odd, more in an awkward way than a pleasingly idiosyncratic one.
		Makes me wonder why Christian didn't just write the lyrics in French to begin with, if it was intended to be such a personal statement.
	www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=cv-tl (232 words)

	Magma
		It is music that must be experienced fully with body, heart and soul: not simpley a cerebral performance of some kind of space opera by clever musicians, but a full blown spiritual experience with the music acting as the connecting vehicle between performer and listener.
		All the while, the one constant is Vander and his vision- although the contributions of the other musicians of the other musicians to the execution of this vision cannot be downplayed.
		Within months, Christian Vander's new band Offering was born, moving further and deeper into the more acoustic Coltrane-inspired Jazz directions that Magma had ever dared to travel before.
	www.furious.com /perfect/magma.html (2344 words)

	CD MAGMA DESTRUCKTIW KOMMANDOH
		Recorded in 1973 at the Manor Studios in Oxford by a completely new line-up, the sole sur../VIVOrs from the previous incarnation of MAGMA were Klaus BLASQUIZ and, of course, Christian VANDER himself.
		The entire credit for this achievement is down to Christian VANDER, who by this time had taken the artistic destiny of MAGMA fully into his own hands.
		Although the performance of the band was an order of magnitude more powerful than before - notably with the arrival of Jannick Top on bass, whose playing complemented Christian VANDERs music so perfectly - then perhaps the most striking characteristic of M.D.K. was the epic sound produced by the vocal team.
	www.seventhrecords.com /MAGMA/AKT10/cdakt10uk.html (187 words)

	Seventh Records featuring Magma and Christian Vander
		All the while, the one constant is Vander and his vision- although the contributions of the other musicians to the execution of this vision cannot be downplayed.
		Since Christian Vander reactivated Magma in the mid 90's, the band has really turned into a great unit on their own and one that compares quite favorably to their 'glory period'; the only thing lacking was new material for them to perform.
		With no less than 9 vocalists (lead by Christian and Stella Vander), the choir is lightly backed by two pianists/keyboardists (Pierre Sivadier and Simon Goubert), Philippe Dardelle (contrabass, from the CV Trio and Offering albums too) and Vander himself (drums, piano) in what is a very acoustic, very airy sounding set.
	artist-shop.com /seventh (2337 words)

	Matt Howarth's Sonic Space - The Intergalactic Sound of Magma, Part Two
		Magma, a modern jazz ensemble led by French percussionist and Coltrane aficionado Christian Vander, creates intense and passionate music that relates a massive saga of the distant, enlightened planet of Kobaia and the Earth as it struggles to attain spiritual perfection.
		The band at this point are: percussionist Christian Vander, vocalist Klaus Blasquiz, vocalist Stella Vander, bass virtuoso Bernard Paganotti, guitarist Gabriel Federow, violinist Didier Lockwood and keyboards by Benoit Widemann and Jean-Pol Asseline.
		Christian Vander's subsequent music has been restricted to a more traditional modern jazz vein, often in quartet form.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/sonic_space_magma_two_000802.html (1062 words)

	Prog Rock: Caravan, Djam Karet, Gentle Giant, Roberta Piket, Christian Vander
		Vander's imposing voice is commanding and vast, while Stella's vocals are floral and quasi-operatic, pleading and celebratory.
		This keyboard mirrors Vander's vocal power, resounding with classical chords that generate dense cloudbanks of majestic properties.
		This music is exhausting, but equally invigorating, as Vander's ardor becomes infectious, filling the audience's collective chest with proud breaths and victorious rushes.
	www.soniccuriosity.com /sc101.htm (1318 words)

	Da Zeuhl Wortz Mekanïk is kobaian for Magma
		The participants were Christian Vander and Klaus Blasquiz.
		Vander: It is difficult to define what music is. Music is life.
		(Vander picks up two drumssticks and plays the rythm on the tablecloth on the table) Same rythm every time, but the content is never the same.
	www.danbbs.dk /~m-bohn/magma/interview.htm (2595 words)

	CMT.com : Magma : Biography
		Led by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander, the Paris-based Magma was, in their way, perhaps
		The son of a jazz pianist, Vander initially followed in his father's footsteps, modeling his technique on the work of John Coltrane alum Elvin Jones and starting his career with a number of jazz and R&B outfits.
		In 1983, Vander himself resurfaced with the acoustic project Offering, but later returned to more grandiose designs with Les Voix de Magma, an attempt to resurrect his early material for a new generation of listeners.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/magma/bio.jhtml (345 words)

	Magma: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		The son of a jazz pianist, Vander initially followed in his father's footsteps, modeling his technique on the work of John Coltrane [+] alum Elvin Jones [+] and starting his career with a number of jazz and RandB outfits.
		Chart success was not forthcoming, and after a few early tours of the U.S. and Britain Magma spent the middle years of the decade almost exclusively in France, where they launched records including 1974's Kohntarkosz and the next year's Live.
		In 1983, Vander himself resurfaced with the acoustic project Offering [+], but later returned to more grandiose designs with Les Voix de Magma, an attempt to resurrect his early material for a new generation of listeners.
	www.music.com /group/magma/1 (301 words)

	Magma interview- Christian Vander
		Not particularly relishing it, I unwittingly became a club employee and a band manager at the same time when I arrived to interview the masters of Zeuhl music for their first New York show (July 1999) in over a quarter of a century.
		I had long been enamored by drummer/mastermind Christian Vander, who was/is so committed to his own mythologies which he created in the late sixties/early seventies.
		Arriving early to the club, to meet Christian, his wife Stella (also a singer in the group) thought I was part of the club management and asked me about payment for the show.
	www.furious.com /perfect/magma2.html (1551 words)

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		At first basically bass and drums, the addition of extra vocals, and sometimes keyboards made them comparable as follow ups with lots of energy and in their own individual way, with complexity and intelligence.
		Christian Vander : Les cygnes et les corbeaux (F,1997-2002)* Prologue : Tr.2, "Sahïss Sïïaaht" 6 min (***) Tr.5, "Le Semeur vers le nord" 2 min 8 Recording with mad vocals, piano, choir, orchestra unfortunately on only a couple of tracks, and with very tempered vocals and orchestrations on the other tracks.
		This is the latest work by Magma leading figure Christian Vander.
	psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com /files/MAGMA-RUINS.txt (1347 words)

	MAGMA Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh reviews and MP3
		For this disc, the band is augmented by a five-piece female choir (including, for the first time, Stella Vander, Christian’s wife) which adds an eerie texture to proceedings and is one of the things that absolutely sends this one into the stratosphere.
		Christian Vander manages to combine elements of jazz, prog, rock,and classical with operatic vocals thrown in.
		Vander tries to get his message through to us by his music alone, and I believe it’s very open for interpretation.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=3306 (4985 words)

	Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage \| Unsung \| The Book of Seth \| Magma - Kohntarkosz
		Mainman and drumming powerhouse Christian Vander led Magma as the musical keepers of the mythological history of his people, the people from planet Kobaia.
		Then Christian Vander starts speeding up, prodding his wife’s vocals into quickening their pace, and the stridently repeated phrases almost trick you into thinking your album is skipping.
		Vander improvises slightly and arranges greatly with downplayed drumming all around the gentle piano, with not a hint of side one’s terrifying tension episodes.
	www.headheritage.co.uk /unsung/thebookofseth/109 (1106 words)

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