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It's actually quite hard to rate this album because in fact I hardly ever listened to such an incoherent work as this one. At first listen it seams like those guys couldn't make up their minds whether to create a classical symphonic or a psychedelic pop-rock one. Not that the music presented here would be really bad, especially the classical parts are of very high quality actually but the different parts are just not fitting to each other. The only track working perfectly is the third one of this 2 LP-set consisting of four side-long tracks. That one is really a great Prog piece. Obviously this record had ben the soundtrack for a German movie released in 1978 which would explain its incoherence. I've never heard the names of these musicians before but by some searching in the web I found out that they were from Austria and had some doubtful fame by composing the music for a pop song which gained 5th place for Austria at the Eurovision song contest. Anyway I think this album is worth to be checked out by some collectors of obscure records.

Never mind the above: I LOVE IT  !!!!
Especially the summing up of dead rock artists(at that time) gives me the shivers.....


Tracklisting:
01. The Invitation (6:22)
02. The Head Os The Circus For His Beloved Audience (11:27)
03. Who Is Victor (9:52)
04. Victor's Song For Himself (5:27)
05. Victor's Song For His Father (7:29)
06. Where Is Victor (9:41)
07. Victor's Dream (10:28)
08. a) Victor's Song For The White Man & 
b) The Song Of Life (11:28)

A Rock Opera by Manuel Rigoni & Richard Schoenherz 

Credits
Artwork By - Karl Strnad 
Bass - Kurt Hauenstein 
Choir - Wiener Akademie Kammerchor 
Composed By [Symphonic Orchestra], Arranged By [Symphonic Orchestra] - Richard Schoenherz* 
Drums, Percussion - Manuel Rigoni 
Engineer - Barry Hammond , Fred Schreier , Gregor Hornack* , Hartmut Pfannmüller , Steve Nye , Wolfgang Engel 
Engineer, Mixed By - Peter Bown 
Guitar - Harry Stojka* , Johan Daansen 
Keyboards, Lead Vocals - Richard Schoenherz* 
Lead Vocals - Achim Buchstab (tracks: 3, 6) 
Lyrics By, Music By, Arranged By - Manuel Rigoni , Richard Schoenherz* 
Mixed By - Dec O'Doherty* , Peter Henderson 
Orchestra - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The 
Producer - Peter Hauke 
Notes
A symphonic poem. Originally released 1975. 
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Chipping Norton Studio, AIR Studios, England & Europa Sound Studio, Germany & Austrophon Studio, Vienna. 
Mixed at Abbey Road Studios, Advision Studios & AIR Studios.