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11 cds of French progressive jazz rock concerning itself with the future fate of the human race, sung in a made up language and influenced in equal parts by the choral works of Carl Orff, Bela Bartok, Stravinsky and John Coltrane, anyone? No...come back, there's no reason to be afraid. Really...

In about 1968, Christian Vander, drummer and John Coltrane fanatic had an epiphany. Bored with the ephemeracy of pop, and aghast at what he saw was a looming ecological apocalypse he was moved to begin work on a sprawling cycle of works surrounding the story of Kobaïa, a planet where...