Magma: Zëss (Le Jour Du Néant) - Album Review

We review Magma's studio album Zëss (Le Jour Du Néant). Although the multi-movement piece Zëss was first composed by Christian Vander in the late 1970s and performed live many times, this is the first studio recording of it that has been released. We discuss the album and place it in the context of Magma's larger oeuvre.

" Four decades after its first draft, the work has finally been recorded in an orchestral version that gives it both its true dreamlike dimension and its transcending power. For Zëss is above all the visionary reflection of an immemorial dream haunting the most obscure part of our souls."