Today by chance I tuned in into a local classical music radio station and was suddenly surprised to hear a piece that seemed to be a direct precursor of the musical stylings of Magma and zeuhl in general. Sadly, after the end, the announcer didn't mention the name of the piece, so I'm left wondering.
What I heard, for several minutes, was a constantly repeated two chord sequence -one upper, and the other downwards-, mainly played with horns and trumpets and some violins. The main aspect, thus, was that there was a chorus predominantly of male voices or at least very masculine sounding, singing the same pattern most of the time, again very similar to Magma.
At one time, drums came in, very loud, again like Magma. But instead of playing the sophisticated patterns of Christian Vander, the drums constantly played a rat-tat-tat military pattern.
What was this? A modern opera? I've read Bartok cited as a Magma influence, but don't know if this was a Bartok piece. In any case, the following piece, as mentioned by the announcer, were five Hungarian dances, by Brahms.
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