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Old 01-02-2023, 08:02 PM   #223 (permalink)
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I don't think Magma are THAT inaccessible, their songs are about the groove more than anything, they are similar to Krautrock bands like Can and Neu! in that sense, only they are much more technically proficient and the grooves are a lot more complex, but they're not flashy in the way bands like Yes and ELP are.

The final boss of prog would be Univers Zéro, that's the music you play to summon Cthulhu.
Fair enough. I suppose they're not especially inaccessible in the sense of being particularly noisy or dissonant, but it's more like they use familiar prog rock musical elements in such different ways that it feels really alien. You're absolutely right in that a lot of the RIO stuff is much more inaccessible. Magma is like the last boss on disc one, avant garde prog is on disc 2, haha.
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