Just when you thought it was safe to put away your Kobaian dictionary (filed alongside your Klingon thesaurus) up pops a new Magma album, sung of course in the band's own intergalactic dialect. Except, of course, Riah Sahiltaahk isn't new at all; nothing in Vander world is that straight forward. Instead, the visionary heart of Magma has re-arranged and re-recorded the side-long first track of the 1971 album 1001 Degrees Centigrades. Vander, it seems, wasn't happy with the band's then arrangement, and a mere 43 years later (an eye blink in Kobaian time) he's got it the way he wants: gone is the jazz-fusiony feel, out go the brass parts, in come the quasi-operatic female voices that would become a signature part of the Magma sound. Fans (who include Steve ‘Interesting’ Davis) will be ecstatic to hear that that is just the overture for a slew of new Magma music and re-issues. For now, though, you must rest content with this mere 24” slice of interstellar opera.