Maranatha LP 70's Christian Prog-Rock Mass

Some samples from a pretty cool double LP I found a few weeks ago. This music was composed by Marek Norman and performed by The Vancouver Voice-Of-Youth Orchestra & Choir. Listen to the whole video, it gets pretty wild into the second half. Released on Van-Los Music label VLM 3610

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Music

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• Christian
• 60s
• 70s
• rock
• music
• vinyl
• record
• collecting

[CrossroadsWhite]

Thank you for introducing me to Maranatha.

[djanchovy]

No problem, the beauty of digging at flea markets!!

[riosbeatz1]

can you post up all the songs? stuff sounds awesome. or if you can make mp3's that would rock.

[djanchovy]

I plan to convert the whole LP to CD in the near future.

[mariceliolb]

great songs, do you know where we can download it?

[djanchovy]

This LP is one of many that I have on a long list LPs I want to make MP3s of but just don't have the time. Eventually.....

[sevenismagicman]

was this remastered? a lot of the cymbals kinda get lost in a gate or compressor, it seems. still very enjoyable to hear! ;-)

[sevenismagicman]

wow! this is good stuff!

[ovidiusrock]

Owww!!!!great!

[SuperChristianMetal]

What an incredible find! I'll admit I'm not too keen on the music. However, the concept is excellent.

[VIDEOVOXX]

Had fun recording this live in the 1970's at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver Canada. We had a 65 piece orchestra and a 150 voice choir. My name is Ed Jurak and I was the recording engineer that recorded this with 38 microphones on an 8 track Scully recorder.

[melissamay1982]

The world really needs more rock masses. This is fantastic!

[ageshero]

I love long Compositions, Often turn out Epic to some degree if properly made.

[audiotrax2000]

Very trippy. Loved this. Parts of it almost sound like Aphrodite's Child from the 70's.

By the way, even though this is called Maranatha, I'm not sure this was ever associated with the Maranatha Christian record label. There was some great Jesus music from the 70's. Maybe it is finally being discovered now by the secular world.

[prog4evr]

Had no idea such music existed under the Christian prog genre - thanks so much for posting! First 2 1/2 minutes sounds like a cross between BS&T and Colosseum - 60s jazz-fusion meets 60s prog band. Wonder if Maranatha was influenced by either one of them...