1001 Degrees Centigrades [Import]

Magma | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B000025T6P
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,959 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Available again at a new low price for a limited time. Digitally remastered and authorised by the group. Reissue of the veteran French prog act's 1971 album. Standard jewel case.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Futuristic Jazz Prog-Rock !, February 4, 2001

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Rodrigo Guabiraba Brito (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil) - See all my reviews

1001 is a rare album of the 70's. Extremely creative and well done. Vander's drums are much more precise than in Kobaia (Magma's first album), Riah, the first track, is an Modified jazz opera rock, with an intense rithm. Pay attention to the excellent bass textures and trumpets variations. It's the best track of the album, 20 mins of visceral rithmic song ! Iss Lansei Doia, track 2, is a jazz-prog track. Very interesting, almost as good as Riah, the "odd voice" in the middle of the song is sensational, the drums variations are incredible, very good track... The last one is not as good as the rest, but a weel done jazzy composition. Good piano and bass. The album is an essential Magma work, it's not comparable to MDK, it's another "voyage". But if you like the dark, intense, jazzy and misterious song of Magma, try 1001 Degrees Centigrades....

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for any true Magma fan!, July 19, 1999

By A Customer

First, let me say that that is "3 stars" compared to OTHER Magma releases. Anyway--this is a great album. It's still very early in there career, so it gives you a good chance to hear how they evolved, but you can definitely hear where they wanted to go. Unlike their first release, the songs here are the longer, album-side cuts you expect from this band, but it still relies a lot on horns and more straight arrangements like the original release (one thing I like is that Vander's dreaded weapon of repitition is not really used much in this recording). Expect a great listen!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the kobaļans return to earth, May 9, 2000

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Mathias Jonsson (Enköping, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This is Magma's second album, and it's a major improvement from their first "Magma/Kobaļa", which in my opinion felt immature, with rather forced compostions.

This album features only three (but very strong) tracks penned by Vander, Lasry and Cahen. The music is here developing in the direction towards the trancelike minimalist intensity of MDK and Köhntarkösz, but it hovers close to groups like Soft Machine, with tight slick soprano sax jazzy parts. The musicians are of course very tight and impressive, and the intensity is quite controlled.

The concept of this album continues from the first one; a spaceship of Kobaļans travel to planet Earth to tell the Earthmen of the wonders and spirituality of their homeplanet, but they are captured and thrown into prison. The Kobaļans nevertheless manage to send a message to their homeplanet of their capture, and Earth get the message from Kobaļa: release our fellow men or we will use our great destruction weapon STÖAH on you.

This album is a must-have for all Magma fans!