(Zeuhl/Avantgarde/Modern Classical) Christian Vander - Les Cygnes et les Corbeaux - 2002, MP3, 320 kbps

Christian Vander is a French drummer, musician, and founder of the band Magma.

Fifteen years in composition (1982 - 1997) and more than four years in the making, this music is something entirely new, bridging the compositional efforts of the 20th Century post Schoenbergian greats to create a 21st Century music which grasps the essence of the vast interior stillness behind all sound and pierces the intensity of silence behind all noise. Disavowing all mechanical tempos, this free-flowing masterpiece reveals itself through the formless form of vortices and spirals, cascading, recursive, ineffable. This is a music whose dynamic rests on no tangible axis or fixed point, which is conceived from the inner and cannot therefore be measured by the outer. 65 minutes of fluttering wings, of song, of cries, of absolutely different sensations, this is a neo-impressionist composition of revolutionary proportions and aspirations. "I have found in the motion of swans and crows a parallel with the inner motion of the Kosmos itself. Or, at least, this is what I perceive in it." Christian Vander, 6th March 2002

Christian VANDER : Lead vocal, acoustic piano, Fender piano, orchestra keyboards, tambourine, mixing
Stella VANDER : Lead vocal, background vocals, orchestra keyboard programming, mixing
Isabelle FEUILLEBOIS : Lead vocal, background vocals
Julie VANDER: Lead vocal, background vocals
Bénédicte RAGU : Lead vocal, background vocals in "L'appel"
Virginie COUTIN : background vocals in "L'appel"
Bertrand CARDIET : Lead vocal in "Le ciel de l'océan"
Alex FERRAND : background vocals Les oiseaux en colère III & IV"
Pierre-Michel SIVADIER : Keyboard in "Prologue"