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- Magma – Kobaia
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First released in 1971, the first Magma album - originally just called Magma - certainly set a tone for the band. A group that has seen a plethora of members come and go, and released a mind-boggling number of records, there's always been a kind of mania about their work. On Kobaian, where the odyssey began, this is more than audible. Named after the language they sing in - some kind of Germanic-Slavic hybrid which, at times, sounds a little like Klingon with a groove - the record opens with pained brass screams and in other moments reaches crescendos that almost feel tortured. But then the overriding atmosphere is one of swing, like an intoxicating lounge-on-spaceship scene, taking heavy inspiration from freeform jazz by removing the guardrails and seeing where things end up.