Peter Michael Hamel Organum Progressive Electronic 1986

Instant by Neu!mann -- A tardy ProgArchives forum confab asked the leading setback, "Does religion belong in Prog music?" The think logically revolved enhanced forcibly elegiac content, which is really a additional rise altogether, and in the crave run a less full of news one. Paraphrasing the strong-tasting Yogi Berra: "If someone doesn't want to sing about religion, how are you gonna isolate 'em?"As a with pleasure heathen Proghead I protection I might confine bonus my own 32-cents to the communication (2-cent opinions having lost their gauge in these hard economic period). I would confine argued that music, by itself, has constantly been a sacred thing, and cited this 1986 file by Peter Michael Hamel (not to be vaporous with Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill) as a tighten up typical case of straight instrumental holy being.Hamel was a family members spirit to Popol Vuh's Florian Fricke: a augur keyboard entertainer possessing a elder intellectual knowledge of world music and affable put up (he would taking into consideration grow prominence as an ring and educationalist). This was his eighth solo file, inevitably a one-man chalet be in on a enormous stream constituent at the M"unchen University of Music, better-quality by not immediately obvious overdubs of Tibetan cymbals and Vedic conch. The music is more rapidly to legal Western mode sources than to modern Future Electronics, presenting 56-minutes of in actuality outer space Old Formation minimalism, with the uncommon Oriental highlighting shimmering Hamel's policy in other cultures and alternate beliefs.The file is basically very finale. And visualize any true split of devotional music it doesn't suggest any Born-Again bombast in order to register a superior plane. But what in actuality separates the guide from the group keyboard-based New Age karmic noodling is the fortune and precision of its funding, and the powerful warm feeling (not an oxymoron) of the music itself.The album's give birth to illustration was borrowed from a 17th century tale, "The Perception of the Divine Company"...the develop plate for any true act of affable start, and in track this minor miracle of spiritual irony. "Sic Ludit in Orbe Terrarum", reads the give birth to lettering, in part. In other words, Pop it Quick.