MUSEO ROSENBACH Zarathustra KILLER Ital heavy prog M-
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I won’t even try to improve on the review that Greg Northrup wrote for the Giant Progweed website, as he sums up this album’s greatness very nicely: “Museo Rosenbach's only album, Zarathustra, is another one of the clearly essential Italian albums. Firmly entrenched on the heavier end of the Italian spectrum, this is one of the defining “heavy-prog” albums. The music is undeniably dark, completely glorious, and proceeding with bombastic classical grandeur, dominated by surging guitars, blazing Hammond leads and of course the omnipresent Mellotron. The band competently moves through occasional quiet moments with nice flute and Mellotron before ripping into massive metallic bowel shaking riffs with godly Mellotron weaving in and out of them. Earth shattering. The vocalist has a nice bluesy, throaty voice that lends itself excellently to the proceedings. Of course, being Italian, the melodies here are phenomenal, and Museo Rosenbach manages to weave a gorgeous melodic web in with their brute force, pulling everything together in moments of shuddering climax.
“The first five tracks on here make up the lengthy title suite, which stands as one of the most solidly composed side-long epics in the progressive rock tradition, leaving little, if any breathing room between consecutive mind-blowing passages. The rest of the album is pretty much just as good: addictive, melodic pieces with a dark, aggressive undercurrent. Zarathustra is one of the truly essential Italian classics.”
I will add this: if you like records like Il Balletto di Bronzo’s Ys, you’re sure to love Zarathustra, which I think is even better! Originally released in 1973, this is a reissue released in Japan on the King/Seven Seas label in 1982 and is itself very rare. It comes in a gatefold cover (with the obi, as pictured) and includes an insert. Both the cover and record are in at least M- condition (the vinyl appears to be brand new). I love these Japanese reissues, because, as good as the Italian pressings are, you’re still unlikely to find ones that sound as good as these audiophile-quality pressings.
Winner pays postage (in the U.S., this would be about $4.50 for one LP sent by Media Mail). Package insured upon request. Winners outside of the U.S. will be notified of postal fees, but an approximate cost for one LP to many countries is $15.50 by airmail. If you bid on and win more than one item, you WILL save on postage! Note: I do not gouge on postage and packaging costs. Record will be carefully packaged in a strong, oversized LP mailer. In addition to money orders and checks, I also accept PayPal. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. E-mail: david.o@jjldj.com. For other rare and collectable prog rock and related items, click on the “view seller’s other auctions” button above.
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