(Review from progreviews.com)

Theatre du Taur is an official bootleg of Magma recorded in Toulouse on September 24, 1975. This is a companion piece to their Live/Hhai album and another subsequent official boot, Opera de Reims. As it stands, this is a pretty aptly title, as the ‘Taur’ in question is a raging bull in his prime by the name of Christian Vander.

Vander is all the reason you need to justify in picking this one up. Does he muscle his way into the spotlight? Not to detract from the other musicians, who are all in excellent form here, but Vander pretty much is the spotlight on this one, a simply all-encompassing presence throughout these two discs of music that is impossible to ignore. On the one hand, he conveys this sense of being finely attuned to what the other musicians are playing and ready to respond and assimilate, almost to the microsecond. At the same time, he gives the ultimate impression that whatever the hell they are playing is really just incidental and even moreso he is drumming along to the internal score of the music playing away in his head.

Because its set-list duplicates much that is can be found on the obviously much better-sounding Live album, this archival live album tends to fall in the shadow of Opera de Reims in terms of garnering recognition. It’s somewhat a shame, since the performances on this one are arguably more unhinged (one exception being Reims’ “MDK”).

Line-up:
- Klaus Blasquiz / vocals & percussion
- Stella Vander / vocals
- Didier Lockwood / violin
- Gabriel Federow / guitar
- Benoit Widemann / keyboards
- Patrick Gauthier / keyboards
- Bernard Paganotti / bass
- Christian Vander / drums

Track List:
01. Kohntarkosz – 32:29
02. Hhai – 11:19
03. Kobaia – 11:48
04. Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh – 38:16

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