Christian Vander (musician)

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Christian Vander (born February 21, 1948 in Nogent-sur-Marne , Département Val-de-Marne ) is a French drummer , pianist , composer and singer and best known for his band Magma . He also appears as a soloist or with his Christian Vander Trio in the music genre of jazz . Christian Vander is the adopted son of the French jazz pianist Maurice Vander .

Career

At a young age he met world-famous jazz greats such as Art Blakey , Elvin Jones or Kenny Clarke , due to performances by his mother. Finally, Chet Baker gave 13-year-old Vander his first drum kit . He dealt with Otis Redding , Bach , Wagner , Carl Orff and Stravinsky . His greatest role model, however, is John Coltrane , to whom he also dedicated a record in 2011. After his death in 1967 he went to Italy , where he worked as a jazz musician. Back in France he played with Mal Waldron , Chick Corea and Dave Holland . In 1969 he and Laurent Thibault finally founded Magma, his most famous project. In 1979 he founded the Alien Quartet, from which the Christian Vander Trio emerged. In 1981 he recorded the album Fusion with Didier Lockwood , Jannick Top and Benoît Widemann . From 1983 he appeared with the group Offering, with whom he recorded two double albums. From 1992 to 1995 he headed the Les Voix de Magma group. In 1994 Vander and Simon Goubert formed the band Welcome, which consisted of 2 drummers, 2 bass players, 2 saxophonists and a pianist. Since 1996, Vander has been touring again with Magma in changing line-ups.

style

He is known for his virtuoso drumming as well as his singing and piano playing. He reached number 100 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 best drummers of all time . As a composer, he was influenced by rock, jazz, classical and opera . Vander's music can roughly be described as progressive rock , but his style is so unique that he created his own genre, the Zeuhl , with it. Zeuhl is Kobaian , an artificial language that Vander developed for his band Magma, and means "heavenly". It is short for zeuhl wortz , heavenly music.

instrument

Vander plays a Gretsch drum set from the early 1970s and uses Zildjian K-cymbals.

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Brief biography on seventhrecords.com
  2. ↑ The 100 Best Drummers of All Time, Rolling Stone March 31, 2016
  3. ↑ Zeuhl guide on the baby blue pages
  4. ↑ Zeit-Article on Magma
personal data
SURNAME Vander, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French drummer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Nogent-sur-Marne