Jacula

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Jacula is a progressive rock Italian band from the early 1970's, born mainly from as an experiment of occultist duette Antonio Bartocceti-Doris Norton, organist Charles Tiring and medium Franz Porthenzy.

Their music was quite innovative in the progressive circles of those years, and is considered very rare by most fans and analysts of this kind of music, especially in an era which saw the development of groups such as Pink Floyd, Genesis or Gentle Giant, which were the basis of the new progressive rock scene.
Jacula can only be compared with Devil Doll, which was as rare as Jacula was back in the day.

Their discography is not very large because the band was experimental and had even been tagged by founder Antonio Bartoccetti (who both composed and performed with lots of other musicians from the Italian progressive rock scene in the 1970's) as a youth mistake.

Nevertheless, the two albums the group conceived are allbeit complete: In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum (1969) which has a superposition of organ and other dark sound effects; Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus (1973) which features Doris Norton's vocals, with a sound much more influenced by bands of the Italian underground scene such as Le Orme.