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Pope releases prog-rock single
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 28 September 2015
The Pope – you know, like the actual Catholic pope – is releasing an album later this year, featuring excerpts from some of his speeches set to music, and everything from prog-rock to Gregorian chant.
Released by Believe Digital, the album is titled ‘Wake Up!’ and will be released on 27 Nov. The first track to be released from it leans more towards prog, which I guess fits its title, ‘Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!’ The Pope’s, er, vocals were recorded live in South Korea last year.
The album’s producer and artistic director Don Giulio Neroni told Rolling Stone: “For many years, I’ve been the producer and the artistic director of albums by the Pope. I had the honour to work with John Paul II, Benedict XVI and now Pope Francis”.
He goes on: “As in the past, for this album too, I tried to be strongly faithful to the pastoral and personality of Pope Francis: the Pope of dialogue, open doors, hospitality. For this reason, the voice of Pope Francis in ‘Wake Up!’ dialogues music. And contemporary music (rock, pop, Latin etc) dialogues with the Christian tradition of sacred hymns”.
Listen to ‘Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!’ here:
