(Review from progarchives.com)

Magma’s second album shows a band progressing on its style. The music on here is just as great as in their other albums, having this unique blend of influences of Stravinsky, John Coltrane for the music and Carl Orff for the vocals that come mainly as choirs.

“Riah Sahiltaahk”, the side-long opening story here. It has all the central Kobaian elements and musically conveys the loose plot of a chapter from an epic space opera, skipping past your likely rudimentary grasp of the celestial language and manifesting directly in your creative centres, and in a more melodic sense, is a voyage from upbeat beginnings akin to brass-rock through incidental filmic moments, the required electric piano motifs and mournful prayers of an uprooted galactic community, descending into volatile, jazzified marching dirges replete with shrieking Vanderisms, spluttering trumpet stab-rows and the grim determination of Master Blasquiz – there is an amazing amount of viciousness throughout “1001 Centigrades” and this is the first knockout dose.

Side B is just as essential. If “Riah Sahiltaahk” was momentarily vicious then “Iss Lansei Doia” is full-on psychotic, and squalls throughout. “Ki Iahl o Liahk” starts with a Kobaian hymn, moogs out and then resolves towards brilliantly grooving jazz-funk-space-rock. The chord progressions here are a mite too relaxing, but this would make the most ridiculous elevator music possible, space elevators excepted. Shades of Coltrane, Davis and Hancock all in the same song.

Line-up:
- Christian Vander / vocals, drums, percussion
- Klaus Blasquiz / vocals, percussion
- Francois Cahen / acoustic & electric pianos
- Francis Moze / bass
- Teddy Lasry / clarinet, sax, flute, voice
- Jeff Seffer / sax, bass clarinet
- Louis Toesca / trumpet

Track List:
01. Riah Sahiltaahk – 21:45
02. “Iss” Lansei Doia – 11:46
03. Ki iahl o Liahk – 8:23

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