After the band had recorded their first album in 1969, Bartoccetti had lived a very retired life travelling around old europe visiting ancient castles. He returned to the Marches in 1971 with his girlfriend Norton at his side and actually lived in a castle which he called "A.Rex Castle" thanks to his friendship with lady Monaldi. Inspired by the particular life he was leading there he composed and wrote lyrics for a second Jacula album; Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus and re-contacted the drawer Travers who did the cover on the previous album and got him to do a colour-version of the same image as the cover for his upcoming album.
The following year Jacula entered the studios in Milan and realised, for the label The Rodgers, their second album. The usual Tiring at the organs, Norton (chosing the pseudonym Fiamma Dallo Spirito which she abandoned very quickly) with voice, violin and synthesiser Minimoog, and Bartoccetti himself, now with medium Franz Parthenzy among their core line-up. Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus was released in just 1000 copies with a laminated single cover. The record however, was a commercial disaster, selling more or less two hundred copies. The band performed their only concert at the milanese "Teatro delt'Arte", drawing about 45 persons - the ticket costing fifty thousand lire. This gig is said to have been magic, hypnotic, great and started off with "Ritus", "Magister Dixit" (from the first album), unwinding itself in "Praesenta Domini" and "U.F.D.E.M" (this second album) and ended with "Triumphatus Sad" and "In Cauda Semper" (also the first album) but the person engaged in the record company Mr. Gualtiero Guerrini did not understand the set at all. Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus was an avant-garde work containing messages against pollution ("U.F.D.E.M"). All these events lead Antonio Bartoccetti to break the contract with editor Guerrini's The Rodgers. Seemingly as a challange he founded Invisible Force (Antonio Bartoccetti (guitar, vocals), Elisabeth d'Esperance (vocals), Charles Tiring (keyboards), Peter McDonald (bass, drums) and re-arranged two excerpts drawn from Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus ("U.F.D.E.M", arranged and recalled "Morti Vident" later also to appear re-arranged AGAIN on their next album Zora as "Morte Al Potere". The B-side "1999 Mundi Finis" was a re-arranged version of "Praesenta Domini", and the single was given to the label UniFunk only of the urge for money. But this re-arranged work did not sit right with Norton and Tiring, who disagreed with this operation so when UniFunk booked the studios for the recording of the upcoming album "Black Wizard", no one showed up and everything dissolved. Invisible Force broke up (Charles Tiring was ejected from the band) and the album which should have been called "Black Wizard" changed it's contentse and the work turned into what later became Neque Semper Arcum Tendit Rex, Antonius Rex's first album... |
| Tracks: 1. U.F.D.E.M 2. Praesenta Domini 3. Jacula Walzer 4. Long Black Magic Night 5. In Old Castle
| Band Members: Antonio Bartoccetti - Music, lyrics, guitar, bass, vocal Charles Tiring - Church organ Doris Norton (as Fiamma Dallo Spirito) - Vocals, violin, flute Franz Parthenzy - Medium --- (Sorry, no production info available at this time) |
Release info:
Released by The Rodgers 1972 - Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus (LP) (TRS 010001) 1972
Also released by Musik Research 1990 500 copies limited reissue
Reissued on CD by Mellow (MMP 136) 1992
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Many thanks to Tore R. Urke who, after much nagging from me, managed to find me a copy of this record!
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