NA Reserve Review: Paternoster "Paternoster" (1972)
The best music captures a feeling, regardless of the style, sound, era, or instrumentation; it's all about the energy. Of course to each of our ears those things become incredibly subjective and dependent upon our upbringing, our cultural surroundings, our education and something else intangible that is most easily summed up by one word: feeling. These qualities manifest what we fill our ears with and point us in the direction of where to dig and what to dig for as we explore the vast array of sonic frequencies available to us in these days of streaming audio and more musical options than anyone could ever sift through. Rock music, generically defined by me as guitar focused, has many levels and sub genres that all aim to pin things down to a finite box. But these finite definitions don’t serve us as we venture down the rabbit whole of deeper exploration. As a style that has existed for a very long time there is much to ignore and much that just isn’t for everyone. Thus the power...