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*Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke) w/ St Petersburg Philharmonic releases ‘Magna
Invocatio – A Gnostic Mass For Choir And Orchestra Inspired By The Sublime
Music Of Killing Joke’*By John Robb - October 1, 20190

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Actor, conductor, singer, composer, geometrist, architect and occult
historian Jaz Coleman releases *Magna Invocatio – a Gnostic mass for choir
and orchestra inspired by the sublime music of Killing Joke* on 29th
November
As an artist of fierce intellect and purpose, Jaz Coleman – has been driven
by twin musical loves: experimental rock and classical music.

What Coleman feels is sometimes passed over, however, is the element of
“panoramic beauty” underpinning the weight and flow of many of Killing
Joke’s songs, the likes of ‘The Raven King’, ‘In Cythera’ and more – an
element that fitting orchestration might elevate and underline…



*JAZ COLEMAN / ST PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA‘MAGNA INVOCATIO: A
GNOSTIC MASS FOR CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA INSPIRED BY THE SUBLIME MUSIC OF
KILLING JOKE’ released November 29th by Spinefarm Records*

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Since coming together in 1978, *Killing Joke* has played a pivotal role in
both alternative music and culture; the intensity of the band’s repertoire
has long been revered by fans, peers and critics, and this continues to
hold sway, with most recent studio album *‘Pylon’* (Spinefarm Records,
2015), showing the original line-up at its potent, pointed best.

With ‘Magna Invocatio…’, a 2-CD / digital / double vinyl set, Coleman
underlines these elements in grand, emotional style…

Recorded with Russia’s oldest orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic,
this stirring body of work taps into the more melodic, uplifting aspects of
the KJ musical canon, using Coleman’s ongoing journey with this hugely
influential UK outfit, something central to his being since later teenage
years, as the consummate vehicle for a Gnostic mass (a ritualised
celebration of the mysteries of existence).

What we have here is a passion project recorded at a time of international
tension and delivered against the odds – “13 digestible epics”, five with
full chorus, ordered to be experienced in a single sitting, and conceived
to appeal to those not generally engaged with the world of orchestral
music….

“I wanted to revisit not just a succession of epiphanies that transformed
my own life,” explains Coleman, “but also to portray some of the more
hidden or occulted milestones of the human race that have captured my
imagination for some four decades. So I specifically chose an unusual
combination of sacred texts that I discovered at different stages
throughout my life. The only possible connection between them was that they
had the immediate effect of inflaming and lifting my spirits to another
level. They are, to coin a phrase, Words of Power!”

The prose that best fulfilled these criteria was ‘The Great Invocation’
(‘Magna Invocatio’ in Latin) by late mystic author, Alice Bailey, founder
of the Lucis Trust –
an organisation with consultative status to the United Nations, and one
dedicated to the establishment of a new and better way of life based on the
fulfilment of the divine plan for humanity.

Launching with a choral fanfare, aiming “to project the themes of ‘The
Great Invocation’ to the four corners of the earth”, ‘Magna Invocatio’ is
90 minutes of powerful, transcendental orchestral music designed “to lift
the listener up and away from the traumas of our world to another
dimension, a more desirable reality where positivity and possibility, Agape
and interconnectedness take precedence.”
States Coleman, celebrated musician, composer, producer, author, lecturer,
traveller, philosopher, actor & Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (an Order
of France recognising a significant contribution to the arts), “The end
goal was always to bring magic into the listener’s life in some meaningful
way”.

‘Magna Invocatio’, ‘The Great Invocation’, clearly does that.
Finally, with collective nostrils flared and righteous anger carried
torch-high, Killing Joke continue to take their music of resistance to
fresh levels, and are confirmed as special guests on Tool’s forthcoming 26
date North American Tour.  The Tool / Killing Joke tour starts on 15th
 October in  Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado and finishes on 25th
 November at Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC.

‘Magna Invocatio – a Gnostic mass for choir and orchestra inspired by the
sublime music of Killing Joke’ track listing:
1. Absolute Descent Of Light
2. The Raven King
3. Intravenous
4. You’ll Never Get To Me
5. Absent Friends
6. Invocation
7. In Cythera
8. Big Buzz
9. Adorations
10. Into The Unknown
11. Euphoria
12. Honour The Fire
13. Magna Invocatio (Gloria)
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