Name: Retrospektiw
Brand: Magma

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

lord240

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-12-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

808720024012

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Artist

Magma

Genre GB

Prog Rock

Label GB

Southern Lord

Magma, one of the most influential of all French bands, release the Retrospektïẁ 3xLP collection, including Retrospektïẁ Volume I and II and Retrospektïẁ Volume III via Southern Lord. The collection is available as a limited pressing of 1500 hand-numbered copies, remastered by Brad Boatright, including original artwork by Eva Nahon, also including the classic comic strip by Solé, Dister, and Gotlib depicting Magma's trials and tribulations. The first ten years of Magma were celebrated on three memorable evenings in June 1980 at the Olympia theatre in Paris. This retrospective, reuniting most of the musicians who had performed in the group, was issued as two albums; the Retrospektïẁ I and II double-LP and Retrospektïẁ III LP. Issued first, Retrospektïẁ III comprises three titles. Retrovision is a long piece in the style of the album Attahk, in which the vocalists Stella Vander, Guy Khalifa, and Maria Popkiewicz turn in a blazing performance over a driving rhythm section. There is a supercharged version of Hhai, in which the trio of Lockwood, Paganotti, and Widemann works miracles. And finally, La Dawotsin, where, in a more muted register, the voice of Christian Vander triumphs through its mastery and profound sensibility. Recorded, like Retrospektïẁ III, during the soirees at Olympia in June 1980, Retrospektïẁ I and II is an absolutely fundamental album in which Theusz Hamtaahk - the first movement of the trilogy of the same name - is presented for the first time. The second and third movements, Wurdah Itah and Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh, were of course already well known. Although played in concert since 1974, Christian Vander had waited for years before recording it for posterity as he wanted every note to be as beautiful, magical, essential and definitive as possible. It is with the same respect for his music that he releases here the most successful version of Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh, considered outstanding on account of two incredible improvisation from Bernard Paganotti and Didier Lockwood. Klaus Blasquiz, who did not perform on Retrospektïẁ III, is the lead vocalist on this version - and justifiably so, since he was indeed the Magma singer who first sang these two masterworks. There's no doubt about it, Magma has left a legacy of music that defies any of the standard and convenient classifications of rock, operating instead in a realm of their own creation. Southern Lord looks forward to being part of their ever-evolving story.

Retrospektiw

Music GB