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the sixth station - deep night - numero group - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. I See
2. Ways You've Never Known
3. Scar Of Love
4. Over And Over
5. Make A Way For Me
6. Before The Snowfall
7. Deep Night
8. Sunrise
9. Remember The Pilgrim

A raw cry from the dark night of one man's soul. Cloistered away from the popular culture of 1982, rural Illinois priest Tony Trosley painted a pastoral refraction of early 1970s Laurel Canyon watercolors with this stand-alone set of songs.

Openhearted andnaively psychedelic, Deep Night was recorded during a single pre-dawn marathon, and mixed live-totape in an isolated chapel. Cobbled together out of local players to help fill out this ethereal soundscape, Trosley's band brought an earnest but bluntly unsophisticated backdrop to his phaser-drenched 12-string guitar. The Sixth Station-named for a grim New Testament tableau in which Veronica washes the tortured face of Jesus-managed to avoid overtly Christian themes in favor of a mystical Humanism that resonates timelessly, and to any sort of listener. This Deep Night is as profound and eerie as the images conjured by its title.