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01. Jannick Top - Utopia Viva
02. Jannick Top - De Futura
03. Jannick Top - Epithecantropus Erectucs
ARTIST
TITLE
Utopic Sporadic Orchestra
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SZ 062LP SZ 062LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/24/2026

"In 1975, Jannick Top left Magma (before returning in 1976 for the VanderTop period and the album Üdü Wüdü) and had just composed De Futura, a piece performed live for the first time at the Nancy Jazz Festival on 17 October, with a collective of 18 musicians, including C. Vander, under the name Utopic Sporadic Orchestra. The version of 'De Futura' released here, for the first time on vinyl, is the rehearsal from 16 October 1975 (duration 23:40).The record also includes the two studio tracks released by Jannick Top on a 45 rpm single in 1975 on the Utopia label, then created by Giorgio Gomelsky in association with RCA: 'Utopia Viva' and 'Epithecanthropus Erectus II'. It should be noted that the versions released here are those from the aforementioned single, which have never been reissued since then, as the versions released in 2001 on the Utopic CD Soleil d'Ork are longer versions, previously unreleased. The disc includes an insert with a bilingual historical text (French/English) by Jean-Christophe Alluin, author of a book on Magma that has not yet been published."