Dr. Z (3) – Three Parts To My Soul (Spiritus, Manes Et Umbra)

As if these albums many versions weren’t extremely rare enough???

Bruh the first track alone got me hooked. Unsure how much a guy would spend on this. I would drop 1k but 3k, it really is a case of If writing on the LP would really bother you to get it cheaper.

To ruin such an album by compressing original B1 (Burn In Anger) into the first side as a A4 on this reissue (so interrupting the original concept that way), you really have to be a person with no sense for a matter whatsoever...inclusion of musically and lyrically unrelated bonus tracks from their otherwise fine single 45 is beyond comprehension too.

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Note for mindblinded rightwing conservative ignorants: burn in anger.

There’s a reason there’s 9 for sale and it hasn’t sold for over a year, ITS CRAP. Didn’t make it at the time because it simply isn’t good and people have realised that now so it’s dropped in value a lot.

hi, https://www.discogs.com/user/RECORDSCOUT

i read your review, I was going to pass an unkind word or two re your review, then I saw your little photo next to your handle, and realized you are just talking thru your picture .
bah humbug.

Dr. Z was led by a guy (appropriately) named Keith Keyes and is one of quite a few guitar-less trios to emerge in the prog era. The title of their sole LP is Platonic, the lyrical content leans towards the black, dark aspects of philosophy/religion, with Mordor and Crowley references, and the delivery is pretty in-yer-face, ala Peter Hammill. It's actually fairly original, thankfully mostly free of the Vanilla Fudge organ sound that cursed so many blustery prog albums back then, with piano and harpsichord being used as much as anything. It's a fun record but is utterly silly schoolboy stuff, especially when taken in comparison to similarly themed groups like Black Widow, and the emperors of the kingdom of doom, Van Der Graaf Generator. Both of whom, it should be noted, predated Dr. Z.

Excellent sound and reproduction of gimmix cover. An obscure gem of the genre and era.

I don't get it... What is so special about this album? For me it's just a.piece of crap. PROLL PROG. Bad songwriting. Bad singing. Bad playing. It's bumpy all the way through. Nothing that catches me. There are a thousand prog records better than this.

Great job by Akarma, the vinyl version is great too..

The copy I have looks similar to this one but labels are: classic Vertigo swirl (A side) and Vertigo info (black/white) on side B.
Vertigo swirl on top right cover is green and the word Vertigo is blurry. Looks like a different re-issue/bootleg that it’s not listed yet. Cat. No: EVENTS 19 113

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