1001° Centigrades

1001° Centigrades (aka. 2)
Studio album by
Magma
Released5 October 1971
Recorded5 – 10 April 1971
Genre
Length41:54
LabelPhilips
ProducerRoland Hilda
Magma chronology
Magma (aka Kobaïa)
(1970) 		1001° Centigrades (aka. 2)
(1971) 		The Unnamables
(1972)
Alternative cover
Cover of the promo 1971 release and some future releases
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

1001° Centigrades, alternative title 2, is the second album by French rock band Magma, released on 5 October 1971. Future reissues use both titles as 2: 1001° Centigrades.

The first track, "Rïah Sahïltaahk", was later re-recorded as a full-length studio album, Rïah Sahïltaahk, in 2014, as Christian Vander did not consider himself satisfied with the arrangement on this album.

The backside of the original record sleeve contains Christian Vander’s poem ‘Ïtah’ as well as a French translation, making it one of two official Kobaïan-French translations by the band itself.

Background

For this album,

Magma underwent several personnel changes: guitarist Claude Engel departed without being replaced, and Alain Charlery and Richard Raux made way for Louis Toesca (trumpet) and Yochk'o Seffer (sax, bass clarinet). This was the second installment in Magma's Kobaïan saga. With lyrics again performed in the band's invented language, the album chronicles the Kobaïan people's return to Earth to save the planet.

— Wilson Neate, review[1] of 1001° Centigrades on AllMusic

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rïah Sahïltaahk"Christian Vander21:45
Total length:21:45
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."'Ïss' Lanseï Doïa"Teddy Lasry11:46
2."Ki Ïahl Ö Lïahk"François Cahen8:23
Total length:20:09 (41:54)

Legacy

On 1001° Centigrades the "zeuhl" sound that later came to define Magma develops, but it lacks the operatic female vocals and primal driving rhythm of the following album, Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh.[citation needed]

Between the release of this album and MDK, a number of band members left the band due to disagreements on its future sound. Two (saxophonist Yochk'o Seffer and keyboardist François Cahen) left to form Zao, a band which follows in the footsteps of Magma's first two releases.[citation needed]

Musicians

Production

Literature

  • Gonin, Philippe (2010), "1.001° Centigrades", Kobaïa la naissance d'un mythe (in French), Marseille: Le Mot et le Reste, pp. 135–142, ISBN 978-2-36054-000-6

References

  1. ^ a b c Neate, Wilson. "1,001 Degrees Centigrade Review by Wilson". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 October 2022.