Paternoster’s self-titled October 1972 release is undoubtedly the darkest record of the European psychedelic Renaissance. This organ-clad masterpiece accentuates the darker side of the psychedelic sound, rendering a somber, melancholic, departure from reality that encapsulates the listener until the grand finale that is the mocking, freakish last 25 seconds of the record. Franz Wippel’s haunting moan squeezes out words of suicide, existential despair and the album’s apparent theme-an insatiable frustration with organized religion. Wisser’s percussion informs the looser, drum-meanderings inherent in Krautrock(though Paternoster is by no means a Krautrock record), almost asserting some oblong precursor to hip-hop and culminating with the contrasting melancholy of the other instruments, which makes this record sound like a twisted musical Necronomicon.
Track Listing:
1. Paternoster (3:56)
2. Realization (3:34)
3. Stop These Lines (6:57)
4. Blind Children (6:16)
5. Old Danube (4:16)
6. The Pope Is Wrong (6:02)
7. Mammoth Opus O (8:55)
Personnel:
Franz Wippel-organ/vocals
Gerhard Waller-guitar/vocals
Gerhart Walenta-bass
Heimo Wisser-percussion
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