Twenty Flying Kings is the fourth studio album by Court, from
Varese. It was recorded during several sessions that took place
between 2007 and 2012 and finally released in 2012 on the independent
label Ma.Ra.Cash Records with the renewed line up featuring Marco
Pedrini (vocals), Mosè Nodari (guitars, oboe, recorders, vocals),
Jacopo Favrin (bass), Marco Strobel (guitar, mandolin, keyboards) and
Francesco Vedani (drums, percussion, keyboards) plus some guests such
as Luigi Bonacina (bass), Andrea Balliano (classical guitar),
Giandomenico Fraschini (piano) and Andrea Cajelli (percussion). The
album summarizes the history of the band, whose roots date back to
1990, and marks a new starting point. In fact, it features four
pieces from their early period re-arranged by the new line up, two
tracks originally released on the Colossus-Musea themed album The
Divine Comedy Part I – Dante’s Inferno and one
previously unreleased track...
The opener “Cries” is a shortened, condensed but not less
effective version of a piece from the 1993 debut album “And
You'll Follow The Winds' Rush 'till Their Breath Dwells”, a
heartfelt complaint against war and tyranny. There’s no glorious
victory that can revive the dead nor heal the ruin left behind by the
armies fighting in the name of their whimsical kings...
The following “Anastasius’ Epitaph” and “The Great Bear
Rising” are linked together and come from Dante’s Inferno.
Their source of inspiration is the Canto XI of the Divine Comedy that
describes the meeting between the sommo poeta and Pope Anastasius II. In a damned place where even spring has a strange
smell words like heresy and betrayal hide an obscure meaning...
“Sumptuous Moment” is an extended new version of the wonderful
epic from Court’s second album Distances,
where the band manage to
develop some ideas and showcase great maturity and gusto.
It’s a visionary celebration
of the power of Mother Nature, inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, where a thunder storm combines the charms of winter and
of hell... Here folk influences and classical flavours are
combined with the energy of rock instruments to conjure up a dreamy
atmosphere and bring to life wandering shadows lost in the woods
under the moon...
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The first version of the melancholic “Lovers” was originally
released on the debut album and here the band gives new life to the
tragic story of a princess that preys night and day for the return of
his beloved knight who is gone abroad, over the see, to fight in the
name of the his king. When the army comes back without him she jumps
down from the tower to fly away and meet her man...
The short, delicate acoustic ballad “Dream Tale” is the only
original track and tells of a child who dreams of being a brave
knight in a fantastic world full of adventures... It takes to the
re-arranged version of another long epic piece from the debut album,
“Alviss’ Revenge”, inspired by Norse Mythology and Nordic
sagas. It tells a bloody story of rings and vengeance, kings and
Valkyries, robberies and murders and ends an album that is really
worth listening to.
Have a try!
You can listen to the complete album HERE
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