Pete Townshend - Parvardigar (German Version)

From Pete Townshend’s 2001 compilation Scoop 3. Pete: When I recorded the Parvardigar prayer on 31 August 1971 for the album Who Came First, some one suggested I should do versions in several languages. An Austrian follower of Meher Baba, Hilde Halpern, did the translation, working literally from my own free adaptation of Meher Baba’s Universal Prayer. There was no official release of the result. I mixed a backing track from the 8 track English language master down to stereo without the vocals, then bounced it onto a fresh real of 8 track tape and added the new German vocals. The quality was not great. When I came to this album I decided to rebuild the master, combining the original backing track with the German vocals on a hard disk so that all the parts would be of the highest possible quality. This was a complicated job. One variation on the first is that this new one combines some backing vocals in both German and English languages creating a lingual counterpoint.“ Copyright belongs to Eel Pie Recording