Kãrtëhl

by Magma

Kãrtëhl cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 September 2022
  • Label: Seventh
  • Country: France
  • Length: 52:53
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Rudy Blas, René Garber, Thierry Eliez, Christian Vander, Simon Goubert, Jimmy Top

Album Notes & Community Reviews

More than half a century after inventing the Zeuhl subgenre, the legendary French ensemble presents a remarkably bright and optimistic album heavily colored by soul-jazz and funk influences. Entirely sung in their constructed language of Kobaïan, the complex, polyrhythmic compositions focus on radiant vocal harmonies and intricate, hypnotic bass grooves.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, choral, technical, complex, repetitive

Tracklist

  1. Hakëhn Deïs (7:12)
  2. Do Rïn Ïlï Üss (4:38)
  3. Irena Balladina (5:13)
  4. Ẁalomëhnd⁄ëm Ẁarreï (7:37)
  5. Ẁiï Mëlëhn Tü (8:56)
  6. Dëhndë (6:55)
  7. Hakëhn Deïs (1978) (6:04)
  8. Dëhndë (1978) (6:18)

Credits

  • Magma - primary artist
  • Jimmy Top - bass
  • Gérald Nimal - cover
  • Rudy Blas - guitar
  • Hervé Aknin - lead vocals [lead vocal], vocals [vocal], written-by
  • Simon Goubert - piano, electric piano [fender rhodes], keyboards, written-by
  • Thierry Eliez - piano, electric piano [fender rhodes], keyboards, written-by
  • Caroline Indjein - vocals [vocal]

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