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{{Infobox album
| name         = Kartëhl
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Magma (band)|Magma]]
| cover        = Kartëhl cover.jpg
| released     = 30 September 2022
| recorded     = 7 March – 12 June 2022
| studio       = UZ Studio
| genre        = *[[Zeuhl]]
*[[soul-jazz]]
*[[progressive rock]]
| length       = {{Duration|m=53|s=16}}
| label        = [[Seventh Records]]
| producer     = [[Stella Vander]]
| prev_title   = [[Eskähl 2020 - Bordeaux, Toulouse, Perpignan]]
| prev_year    = 2021
| year         = 2022
| next_title   =
}}
'''''Kartëhl''''' or '''''Kãrtëhl'''''<ref name="bankcmp">{{cite web |url=https://seventhrecordsmagma.bandcamp.com/album/k-rt-hl |title=Kãrtëhl |website=Seventh Records: Mamga |access-date=2023-06-27}}</ref> is the fifteenth studio album by [[France|French]] [[progressive rock]] and [[zeuhl]] group [[Magma (band)|Magma]], released on 30 September 2022 by Seventh Records as a [[Compact Disc Digital Audio|compact disc]] and three-sided double [[LP record|LP]]. The album is a collaborative work between the band members, with royalties from the track ''Dëhndë'' to benefit the French charity ''La Fondation Initiative Autisme'' for people with [[Autism spectrum|autism]].<ref name="Kartehl">{{cite web |access-date=2022-08-15 |title=KARTËHL |url=https://www.seventhrecords.com/en/magma-19/kartehl-1316.html |website=Seventh Records}}</ref>
The album was [[Sound recording and reproduction|recorded]] by Francis Linon at the band's own UZ Studio between 7 March and 12 June 2022, and [[Mastering (audio)|mastered]] by Marcus Linon at Greasy Records Studio in Paris.<ref name="bankcmp" />
== Background ==
After the previous album, ''[[Zëss]]'', the subject of which is of a universe-ending apocalypse, the band members wanted to produce a brighter and more optimistic album with ''Kartëhl''.<ref name="Kartehl" /> ''Kartëhl'' is notable for being the first album since 1976's ''[[Üdü Ẁüdü]]'' to have songs not written by Vander fill up half of the album's tracklist. For the title ''Hakëhn Deïs'', Magma has released a [[music video]] clip for the first time in its more than 50-year band history. In the video, two dancers from the [[Paris Opera]], alienated by [[artificial intelligence]], dance in an [[expressionist dance|expressionist style]] to the music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bravewords.com/news/magma-release-very-first-music-video-haken-deis |title=MAGMA Release Very First Music Video "Hakën Deïs" |work=BaveWordS |date=2023-04-07 |access-date=2024-01-18}}</ref>
== Tracklist ==
{{Track listing
|extra_column   = Instrumentation
| total_length  = 53:16
| title1        = Hakëhn Deïs
| note1         =
| writer1       = Christian Vander
| extra1        =
| length1       = 7:12
| title2        = Do Rïn Ïlï Üss
| note2         =
| writer2       = Hervé Aknin
| extra2        =
| length2       = 4:38
| title3        = Irena Balladina
| note3         =
| writer3       = Christian Vander
| extra3        =
| length3       = 5:11
| title4        = Ẁalomëhndᴧëm Ẁarreï
| note4         =
| writer4       = Thierry Eliez
| extra4        =
| length4       = 7:36
| title5        = Ẁiï Mëlëhn Tü
| note5         =
| writer5       = Simon Goubert
| extra5        =
| length5       = 8:54
| title6        = Dëhndë
| note6         =
| writer6       = Christian Vander
| extra6        =
| length6       = 6:55
| title7        = Hakëhn Deïs
| note7         = Bonus title, recording of 1978.
| writer7       = Christian Vander
| extra7        = Christian Vander: piano, vocals; René Garber: vocals
| length7       = 6:11
| title8        = Dëhndë
| note8         = Bonus title, recording of 1978
| writer8       = Christian Vander
| extra8        = René Garber: piano, vocals
| length8       = 6:38
}}
== Personnel ==
* [[Christian Vander (musician)|Christian Vander]] - percussions, vocals, tambourin
* [[Stella Vander]] - vocals, backing vocals, chime
* Hervé Aknin - vocals, backing vocals
* Isabelle Feuillebois - vocals
* Sylvie Fisichella - vocals
* Caroline Indjein- vocals
* Laura Guarrato - vocals
* Rudy Blas - guitar
* Thierry Eliez - piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboards
* Simon Goubet - piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboards
* Jimmy Top - bass
* René Garber - vocals, piano
== Reception ==
On the progressive rock website [[Prog Archives]] ''Kartëhl ''received a rating of 3.55 of 5 points from 41 ratings,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76347 |title=MAGMA Kãrtëhl |website=Prog Arichives |access-date=2023-06-27}}</ref> and on [[AllMusic]] it received a 4.5/5 stars rating from nine users.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/kartehl-mw0003797462 |title=Kartehl |website=AllMusic |access-date=2023-06-27}}</ref> Nik Brückner of German progressive-rock-website Babyblaue Seiten, ''Kartëhl'' is: "not the best Magma album, and certainly not the most intense, but it's still a strong middle-of-the-road album in their catalogue." He rates the "wonderfully diversified" album, compared to its predecessor ''[[Zëss]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nik Brückner |url=https://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/index.php?content=review&albumId=20531 |title=Magma Kartëhl |website=Babyblaue Seiten |date=2022-09-27 |access-date=2022-10-20 |language=de}}</ref> Michael Büttgen of the internet music portal Betreutes Proggen rates the album 12 out of 15 points and judges: "''Kartëhl'' is somehow a classic Magma album, but it seems to leave the 1970s behind a bit and surprises instead with many new and also unusual ideas."<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Büttgen |url=https://www.betreutesproggen.de/2022/09/magma-karthl-betreutes-proggen/ |title=Magma – Kartëhl |website=BetreutsProggen.de |date=2022-09-24 |access-date=2022-10-20 |language=de}}</ref>
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