Magma has had a variety of bassists over the years but my favorite is Jannick Top. Over the years he has produced quite a discography. What I'm looking for is his Zeuhl output as a solo artist. I'm aware of the excellent 2008 release Infernal Machina, but there must be more in this vein. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
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There's a CD called Soleil D'Ork, which had a couple singles he did in the 70's, the demo of De Futura, and a couple other things https://www.discogs.com/Jannick-Top-.../master/685113
The vast majority of his work outside of Magma, though, has been decidedly not zheul. He spent many years backing "the French Elvis", Johnny Halliday, and also did sessions with The Eurythmics, Celine Dion (!!!), and many others. Same is true of a lot of the Magma alumni, the stuff they did outside of Magma was either jazz, or rock, or a sessions where they're backing some chanteuse or whatever. That includes Stella, too, if you've ever heard the records she did as a teenager, back in the 60's, let's just say one of couldn't have imagined at the time that she'd someday be part of something like MDK or Kohntarkosz.
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Le Lann Top:
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Forgot about Utopic Sporadic Orchestra. Yeah, that's a good one.Originally Posted by Udi Koomran
1996 : STS, Album Système Solaire, avec Jannick Top, Eric Seva, Claude Salmiéri, Thibault Abrial
https://www.discogs.com/STS-Syst%C3%...elease/4267726
review: http://www.expose.org/index.php/arti...olaire-15.html
I would recommend the 2nd Speed Limit album, which has Top on bass.
This is what I was going to suggest.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
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Strange Vander Top story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles...8-332a3ddc062a
Definitely the strangest story on this list concerns French avant-rockers Magma and the time founder/drummer Christian Vander and bass guitarist Jannick Top fell out in the mid-70s. Classically-trained Vander - musical overlord of the Zeuhl outfit with its own language, Kobaïan - decided to move to Spain and rent a hilltop castle in keeping with his extravagant self-mythologising. Top, according to Julian Cope in his book Repossessed, was apparently so annoyed that he decided to rent a castle down the valley from the band leader in order to irritate him. The pair then unleashed a "magic war", ramping up creative tensions to medieval levels.
Cope, who was told the story by the manager he shared with Magma, wrote: "Martin Cole told of how he had ended up driving from one castle to another trying to patch the band up, only to discover Jannick Top with serious chest wounds screaming that Vander had caused him to tear his own chest open." He concluded by saying: "Martin Cole is such a quiet man that I felt he was, if anything, downplaying this tale.
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Ahem...
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A somewhat different version of this story appeared in Melody Maker in 1976 in an article titled Great Mysteries of Rock:
Curse of Magma's bassist
A Scots road manager tells how he once worked for French band Magma when they were playing in Ibiza. He was sharing a room with Jannik [sic] Top, the bass guitarist. At the gig the previous evening there had been bad vibes between Top and Christian Vander.
The Scots roadie awoke in the middle of the night, frightened by horrible screams. He turned on the light and saw that Top had on his arms sets of three prong marks, as from a trident, with blood pouring from them.
He began shouting at the roadie to draw a chalk circle on the floor. Petrified, he began chalking as ordered by Top, without knowing what he was doing.
Eventually the bleeding stopped. The roadie then left the band, which shortly afterwards changed its lineup. The theory was that a curse had been put upon the bass player.
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