Jacula

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Jacula
Origin Milan, Italy
Genres
Years activelate '60-2017 [4]
Labels
  • Gnome
  • Black Widow
Members
  • Antonio Bartoccetti
  • Rexanthony
  • Florian Gorman
  • Monika Tasnad
Past members
  • Franz Porthenzy
  • Doris Norton
  • Charles Tiring
Website www.antoniusrex.com

Jacula was an Italian rock band founded in the late '60 in Milan as an experiment by Antonio Bartoccetti, Doris Norton, organist Charles Tiring and medium Franz Porthenzy. [5]

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Jacula's music was considered innovative for the time in progressive circles but considered dark and strange by most fans and analysts of the genre, especially in an era that included the development of groups such as Pink Floyd, Genesis and Gentle Giant, bands which were the basis of the new progressive rock scene.[ citation needed ]

Because the band was experimental, and had been labeled by founder Antonio Bartoccetti as a youth mistake[ citation needed ], Jacula's discography is relatively small.

The group completed three albums, Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus in 1972, Pre Viam in May, 2011 and In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum , which release date is still debated. [6]

Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus featured Fiamma Dello Spirito's vocals, with a sound influenced by bands of the Italian underground scene such as Le Orme [ citation needed ]. In the 1970s, Jacula changed their name to Antonius Rex, maintaining the same lineup, until the release of Pre Viam.

Discography

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  5. "Jacula Biography". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  6. The band claims the LP was released in 1969 but no one else has knowledge of this version, while the so-called reissue in 2001 is possibly the first edition. No concrete evidence has yet surfaced on the first release date.
  7. "JACULA - Pre Viam (2011)".
  8. "ANTONIUS REX Jacula".