| The four tracks on the album were all composed by Bartoccetti along
with Franco Mussita and Angelo "India" Serighelli from I Raminghi, both
also listed among the LP contributors. Doris Norton played keyboards, but
between one recording session and another she was breast-feeding her son,
even if the progressive-piano of "Necromancer" is still fantastic. Antonio
Bartoccetti played Gibson guitar live in the console, smoking and anxious
to get it over and done with. He sang just two words in "Necromancer" and
then got his friend Franco Mussita to sing "Zora". Zora is an album
that Antonius Rex's Bartoccetti has said he don't like despite the
fact that some reviewers consider it good work and many people know it.
Zora became a ridiculous album both on the conceptual and the
artistic-technical side he has later said. On Zora Mr Albert Goodman
wanted to play the drums leaving tympani and percussion…. the rhytmical
result of Zora became really terrible.
In 1978, according to Antonio Bartoccetti's will, the second series
of the Zora LP was released with a more stern sleeve and the excerpt
"The gnome" added to it. The work sold over five thousand copies in hardly
one month and was reprinted in the memory of the percussionist Albert Goodman
(1942-1978), who died under mysterious circumstances at Brno. The death
of Goodman resulted in the cancellation of a huge live concert at Teatro
Argentina in Milan despite the fact there were 2000 followers at the doors.
The band had reached their goal to release records only for themselves
and the few who followed them, but this one and the later Ralefun
(1979) never became likeable with them, but the commersial market said
otherwise...
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