Some more Progressive Rock in the Christian areana. A Mass done buy the Austrian group Eela Craig in 1978. If you enjoyed Eden's works you will enjoy this one too.
A review can be found at Casa do Progressivo. You can download there or you can download from me. You may notice Casa do Progressivo's copy has 7 tracks and mine only 6. Mine is all there only the two Credo tracks on his is a single track on mine.
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Tracks:
01. Kyrie
02. Gloria
03. Credo
04. Sanctus
05. Agnus Dei
06. Amen
Line-up/Musicians
- Hubert Bognermayr / keyboards, electronics, vocals (1-5)
- Gerhard Englisch / bass, keyboards
- Frank Hueber / drums
- Alois Janetschko / live mixing
- Wil Orthofer / lead & back vocals
- Fritz Riedelberger / lead guitar, lead vocals (5), backnig vocals
- Hubert Schnauer / keyboards, flute.
- Harald Zuschrader / keyboards, electronics, guitar
Biterate: 320 Is available on CD
I listened to this LP earlier in the summer and all the right ingredients seemed in place - 70s, prog, European experimentalists, mass in a rock format.......But it didn't do a thing for me. I liked one or two of the tracks but that was it, really. I'm still surprized, actually ! At the same time, I was listening to a few European "prog" masses/ religious themed works from the same sort of era, late 70s, early 80s. And most of them were similarly dissapointing . And yes, I'm still surprized !!
ReplyDeleteI've bought this - they were a fairly popular band in European progressive circles at the time - you can still buy this CD, along with their other LPs - not bad. This one sometimes teeters on the awkward, but better than most efforts at Rock masses
ReplyDeleteI bought this (and another CD by them) after seeing them on this blog. Surprising, really, that there's not more Christian prog in the 70's - it always seemed to me a fairly religion-friendly genre. Not bad, a bit contrived in places, but these are popular, professional progsters doing their stuff, and when they're good, they hit a good standard - but it's occasional awkwardness does detract from what could have been a classic (with likely 'universal' appeal!) with a bit more care
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