Here is a list about life, music, activities of Christian Vander. C Vander is a french "jazz" drummer, but essentially a music Creator with a lot of musical and spiritual influences.
He is the leader of the famous french group Magma which has begun its adventures in the 70s. He is also the leader of a wonderful group Offering and a jazz trio/quartet. He used to play in the free jazz group Welcome.
The music of Vander is characterized by the difficulty to classify it by category and the fact that it cannot leave indifferent somebody.
This music is inspired by Wagner, Stravinsky, John Coltrane, Franck Sinatra and the madness of his leader.
In 1994 have a rock-magazine with some review of the 10 most important prog records and mention some others groups. I started buying this 10 and then some
At 13 I became a Beatles fan. A nice introduction to music, since it involves starting from their early "yeah yeah yeah" stuff to more interesting material in