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Kobaïa
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Kobaïa (initially released as Magma) is the debut album by French rock band Magma. Released as a double-LP in 1970, it is a rock opera concept album which tells the story of a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the fictional planet Kobaïa. Except for the first song, which is sung mostly in English, all lyrics are sung in the Kobaïan language invented by the band.
Release · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Magma
- First released
- 1970
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- Listeners
- 73
- Total plays
- 249
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- progressive rock
- Duration
- 4905
- Performer
- Magma
- Distribution format
- Compact Disc Digital Audio
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- publication date
- 1970-10-01
- form of creative work
- studio album
- has characteristic
- double album
- title
- Kobaïa
- place of publication
- France
- number of parts of this work
- 10
- language of work or name
- English language
- recording date
- 1970-04-00
- review score
- 4,5
- different from
- Magma
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Background
- Composition and recording
- Plot
- The Voyage
- The Discovery of Kobaïa
- Reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Magma
- Production
- Literature
- References
- External links
Kobaïa (initially released as Magma) is the debut album by French rock band Magma. Released as a double-LP in 1970, it is a rock opera concept album which tells the story of a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the fictional planet Kobaïa. Except for the first song, which is sung mostly in English, all lyrics are sung in the Kobaïan language invented by the band.
== Background ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kobaïa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.