[Thor Joachim Haga]

Happy New Year, Dr. Jacoby, happy to see you pop in with an intriguing topic.

But holy hallucinations, Batman, that’s a micro genre alright! We need the Graham Watts and Jim Phelpses of this forum to step up (and maybe Tall Guy for possible Morricones?). But I love a good challenge, and I have to say the genre itself sounds very interesting — kind of like a merger of various other threads we’ve done here (religious music, jazz scores).

I did go scrambling through my collection to see if I could find anything remotely like that, but I’m really, really struggling. I mean, there’s Peter Gabriel’s THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, but that’s a) much later and b) more world music than jazz/rock. And if you count that, there’s also that whole genre of Gregorian New Age of the 90s, with Era and the like. And that’s definitely NOT what you’re looking for.

There’s Pino Donaggio’s MORTE IN VATICANO, but again, that’s 1982 and more religious chorus with easy listening pop backbeats than jazz/rock. I have to take on the thinking cap for this one.