*Artist: Gary Hughes
*Album: Once and Future King part.1 [Rock-Opera]
*Year: 2003
*Genre: Heavy\Power Metal-Hard Rock
*Country: Italy
*Format: mp3@192
*Size: 70 Мб.
Tracklist:
1. Excalibur
2. Dragon Island Cathedral
3. At the End of Day
4. Reason Why
5. Shapeshifter
6. King for a Day
7. Avalon
8. Sinner
9. In Flames
10. Lies
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Total playing time: 50:31
Это Рок-Опера товарища Гарри Хьюза(также играющий в группе TEN), о Короле Артуре, его подвигах, жизни и т.д.
Инфа:
http://www.tenofthebest.com/gh_index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hughes
http://www.gary-hughes.com/
Участники оперы:
Gary Hughes.............King Arthur
Lana Lane...............Queen Guinevere
Danny Vaughn............Lancelot
Bob Catley..............Merlin
Irene Jansen............Morgana
Sean Harris.............Sir Galahad
Damien Wilson, sings "Excalibur" (The Prologue)
Highlights:
"Excalibur",
Upon a pagan land in darkness came,
A black and heartless spawn of seed,
A cruel and wretched plague,
For the mists of time a king lay slain,
Basically an intro, starting out with a piano and bell solo with background thunder and choir reminiscent of a sound track, leading into a very accessible medium fast paced, melodic prog rock number with very catchy chorus. Excellent singing by Damien Wilson.
"Shapeshifter",
The perfect spell you could not resist,
I cast it well, beguiled and bewitched,
The evening fell and knocked like before,
But this time Hell had come to your door,
This is a great, great song in a mainstream rock vein, reminiscent of Garbage a bluesy number with just excellent vampy, singing by Irene Jansen and great backing vocals by the cast. Who is this chick? Well, I checked and she is the sister of Floor Jansen (After Forever). No wonder she's so good, Floor's arguably the best singer in the Galaxy.
Irene is apparently with a band called Karma. I will be checking them out!
"King for a Day"
True Gods, they sleep,
Locked in their mountain of dreams,
They wait for the call, for the hunger,
Thry must be freed,
This is slow rock song, almost a ballad, almost a waltz, a truly wonderful composition, beautifully sung by Bob Catley of Magnum. My respect for Gary Hughes is growing and growing.
"In Flames"
The time has come,
There's no other way now,
This Crime is done,
It tore what remained of our reason,
Another marvelous song, a medium paced, somewhat anthemic, ordered, marching style, rock number, with Bob Catley again lending his superlative style on the vocals. Great percussion and guitar.
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