Christian Vander's Showcase

Fnac Forum, Paris 23-03-95

André Liedet


This was one of the two showcases organised by FNAC to present Christian's show of the Espace Kiron and the latest CD 'A Tous Les Enfants...'. As previously, in December 1994, Stella, Julie and Isabelle joined Christian. They played five tracks from the album: 'Ronde de Nuit', 'A la claire fontaine', 'J'ai du bon tabac', 'Mr Vent' and finally 'Hymne aux enfants'.

The show was stopped twice between songs to allow a discussion with a journalist, about the origin of the album, and with the public, mainly about Christian's future plans. Concerning the show at the Espace Kiron, Christian said that Pierre-Michel Sivadier and Lydia Domancich would play keyboards but that Philippe Dardelle will not be there. Magma will soon be twenty-five years old and so there will be a concert by Les Voix de Magma in the autumn with a choir of about one-hundred children singing 'MDK'. Several concerts with a symphonic orchestra and a choir playing the three movements of 'Theusz Hamtaahk' are foreseen in the spring of 1996. But the problem is to find sponsors. The next productions by AKT will be the album 'Inedits', a CD with drum solos and one from the 1981 Bobino concerts. Christian hopes to record the next Offering album soon, with 'Les Cygnes et les Corbeaux', but this tune is very complicated and it has to be played again and again. So it will probably not be done before 1996. Furthermore, he has a project in mind with keyboards and machines for Magma. The final work could be the result of the fight between him and the machines. In answer to a question about Magma's videos, he said that there are no films from that period that are good enough for release. Making a film today could be possible but it would need a lot of money to achieve a good quality result, but there would be no sense in bringing the former musicians of Magma together again.


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