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Paternoster (Vinyl)
Deluxe vinyl reissue of this legendary Austrian prog album which is considered to be the rarest from that country. Personally I was never that big on this band but it certainly has its fans. Heavy organ dominated prog with some comparisons to The Doors and The Nice, although the label compares them to Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, and Procol Harum. Dark and dirge like at times - perhaps this can be thought of as the first ever doom prog album.
Apparently this is the first time that members of the band participated in the reissue, so you get the real story about the band, and unpublished photos. Numbered edition of 1000. Yeah its expensive buy you have to see this set. This is one serious looking package.
Key selling points per the label:
• Packaged in a hand-made, extra-thick “tip on” gatefold jacket, with obi strip and resealable polybag
• Download card for WAV files of the album
• Booklet with extensive liner notes detailing the history of the album
• Remastered by Elysian Masters head engineer Dave Cooley in Los Angeles, delicately lacquered by Electric Mastering in London and perfectly pressed by Quality Record Productions in Salina, Kansas.
• Includes a hand done silkscreened album insert by Hit & Run.
• Produced with the direct participation of their creators.
"Some of the brightest burning legends in music are those who slip by without a trace. Paternoster were one of those epic visionaries that will forever have their entrail-smeared handprint smudged across the history of obscure music. Hailing from Vienna, Austria, Paternoster were a band that lasted no longer than two years, but somehow created a sound that to this day has not been paralleled. Fusing Krautrock, the most precocious of prog, the freakout sylings of Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma," what was yet to come in the world of DOOM, and the haunting prance of melancholic church music, Paternoster were nearly too holy to be categorized. A wailing Hammond organ complements a guitar that sounds to be fuzzing its way through cobweb-encrusted hallways, which is then accompanied by drums that only a somnambulist could conjure. And the vocals? The bemoaned wails of a eulogist at a priest's funeral. Lyrics that are so morbidly depressing and tinged with the nihilism of absurdity that they'd send Ozzy limping home with a tear in his eye. Vocalist Franz Wippel howls: "Rooms of darkness without colours/ceiling press you down on the floor/tableware filled up with vomit/lepers freaks and cross eyed traitors/jumping round the bathroom door..." Dirge vocals at their finest. This, ladies and gentlemen, is Paternoster. I recommend that you add this album to your permanent collection. But don't blame me when they find you with your head in the oven--Paternoster playing in the background." - Head Heritage