Biography
Several collectives of players assembled under the direction of Antonio Bartoccetti and Doris Norton, who performed as Fiamma Dallo Spirito in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Jacula formed in 1969 with organist Charles Tiring and the self-described medium Franz Partheny at its core. After the group shifted its base from Milan to London, it captured its first album that year; issued in a run of only three hundred copies on the band’s private Gnome imprint for circulation among acquaintances and the occult underground, In cauda semper stat venenum explored those same esoteric themes at length.
Activity then ceased for most of the following two years while Bartoccetti, Norton, and Tiring turned their attention to Dietro Noi Deserto and Invisible Force. Jacula re-emerged in 1972 with Tardo Pede in Magiam Versus, whose English subtitle translates as “slow steps towards magic”; the set revisited the apocalyptic Invisible Force B-side “1999 Mundi Finis,” now retitled “UFDEM.” Tiring’s exit later that year brought Jacula to a close, prompting Bartoccetti and Norton to inaugurate the fresh endeavor Antonius Rex.
Activity then ceased for most of the following two years while Bartoccetti, Norton, and Tiring turned their attention to Dietro Noi Deserto and Invisible Force. Jacula re-emerged in 1972 with Tardo Pede in Magiam Versus, whose English subtitle translates as “slow steps towards magic”; the set revisited the apocalyptic Invisible Force B-side “1999 Mundi Finis,” now retitled “UFDEM.” Tiring’s exit later that year brought Jacula to a close, prompting Bartoccetti and Norton to inaugurate the fresh endeavor Antonius Rex.
Albums
Singles
