Christian Vander

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Christian Vander (born February 21, 1948) is a French drummer, musician, and founder of the band Magma. Besides his work with Magma, he has also founded Offering (which saw him put away the drumsticks and focus on the vocals), a self titled jazz trio/quartet, and two fusion bands [a=Fusion (29)] and [a=Alien (34)]. All these bands featured Magma alumni. In 2012 he started also to perform solo.
He is known both for his unique songwriting, virtuosic drumming, and shrill falsetto improvisational/scat singing. His compositions fuse jazz, rock, classical and opera influences, and draw on the work of musicians as diverse as John Coltrane and Carl Orff. Vander's music in Magma is broadly classified as Progressive rock, but the style is so unique that it falls under its own category - an idiosyncratic style of music that Vander himself calls “Zeuhl”. For Magma he devised also a new language known as Kobaïan.

He is – together with his first wife Stella Vander - co-founder of the label Seventh Records.

Adopted son of Maurice Vander.

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Des profondeurs

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Maneh Fur Da Zess

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Le vent

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Blum Tendiwa

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Malawelekaahm

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8 live performances · data from Setlist.fm

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November 3, 2018

Theater Aan Het Spui

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

  • 1. Blues for Alice

  • 2. Celui qui a donné

  • 3. Le ballet des sorcières

  • 4. Ronde de nuit

  • 5. Zëss (Introduction)(Magma cover)

  • 6. C'est pour nous(Offering cover)

  • 7. Ehn deiss(Offering cover)


June 29, 2017

Le Triton

Les Lilas, Île-de-France, France

  • 1. Ehn deiss(Offering cover)


November 13, 2015

Le Triton

Les Lilas, Île-de-France, France


June 29, 2012

Le Triton

Les Lilas, Île-de-France, France


November 19, 2010

Cedac de Cimiez salle Grappelli

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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