Court - Twenty Flying Kings - 2012, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless torrent

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Court / Twenty Flying Kings

Жанр: Rock Progressivo Italiano
Год издания: 2012
Издатель (лейбл): Ma.Ra.Cash Records
Номер по каталогу: MRC 027
Страна: Italy
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 64:42
Источник (релизер): CD
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да (300dpi, png)

Треклист:
1. Cries (9:23)
2. Anastasius Epitaph (3:20)
3. The Great Bear Rising (2:51)
4. Sumptuous Moment (21:42)
5. Lovers (7:29)
6. Dream Tale (2:40)
7. Alviss' Revenge (17:17)

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Court / Twenty Flying Kings

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[spoiler="Об исполнителе (группе)"]
Court biography
1. Symphonic Prog band with strong classical influences. Many accoustic instruments are used, giving the band almost a chamber characteristic. Very interesting arrangements with sophisticated and passionate romanticism: CIRCUS, PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI, EZRA, WINSTON, LOCANDA DELLE FATE ...
The band has won the Los Angeles Music Award 2007 as the best Alternative Artist!
[ProgArchives.com]

2. The project started in 1990, Paolo Lucchina, Mose Nodari, Luigi Bonacina, Andrea Costanza, and Francesco Vedani were the original original line-up. After three years the Court, who were 19 at the time, were contacted by the indie label Music is Intelligence who proposed them to record their first studio album, And you'll follow the winds' rush 'till their breath dwells, in the Roxanne Studio in Stuttgart.

The international critics saluted this work with great enthusiasm: "Court filters progressive, folk and ancient music traditions, generating a new, original sound, completely detached from the very concept of song. Their music develops with unlimited creativity, explicitly trying to overcome any boundary [..] The band signs an absolute masterpiece like Alviss' Revenge, 15 minutes of heavenly madness" (Metal Shock, note: 4 ½ out of 5). The historical prog-fanzine " Melodie & Dissonanze", after defining the CD "The most impressive, mature, and original episode from the Italian scene in 1993", describes the band's sound: "The electro-acoustic soul of Court expresses itself spontaneously through following a track which ideally connects the middle-age music traditions, the passion and energy of the most clever grunge scene, the visionary attitude of psychedelic rock, and the theatrical expression of art-rock". After the release of the album, the band started an intense series of concerts in Italy , and northern Europe (Germany , Netherlands , Switzerland , Norway ). The song Eckol was chosen as single, and a video clip was realized.

In 1997 the second album Distances was recorded near Frankfurt . The magazine Rockerilla commented "It seems that the four years passed from the previous realise have been devoted by the band to develop furthermore its technical and emotional capabilities. Distances is an impressive folk masterpiece, characterized by a totally creative and free approach. [.] The band has signed a work which should be considered completely independent from the local and contemporary scene, but rather ranked among the most colourful folk-prog-psych albums from anywhere and anytime.".

Right after the release of Distances , Andrea Costanza left the band. After several line-up changes at the guitar (Giorgio Ricordi, Andrea Balliano) Marco Strobel finally joined the band. A demo was produced in 2003, and finally in 2007 the band produced and recorded its third official work: Frost of Watermelon. The work was immediately followed by a tour in the USA. For this occasion the young Jacopo Favrin replaced Luigi Bonacina at the bass, the tour culminated with a unforgettable concert at the Gig in Hollywood. The band was noted by US promoters, and convinced to participate to the Los Angeles Music Awards. After a tight series of selections, on November 30th 2007 Court was awarded as Best Alternative Band by the jury.
[Bio from the band's website]
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[spoiler="Об альбоме (сборнике)"]
Anyone happening to listen to a Court album will acknowledge the frequent blending of their powerful electronic impact with the acoustic shadows conveyed by the flutes, the recorders, the oboe, the classical and acoustic guitars and folk instruments as their main sound features.
The above quote from the CD booklet pretty much defines the essence of the band - a synthesis of disparate styles that relies heavily on the free use of woodwinds and acoustic string things. Oboe, recorders and mandolin bring eastern, medieval and folk atmospheres to the proceedings of 'Twenty Flying Kings' respectively, but fit together naturally.

Those readers familiar with the band will recognise from the track list that 'Twenty Flying Kings' is a collection of old tracks, culled from their first two albums and from the Colossus 'Inferno' project (I must check that out, the storm and stress of 'Anastasius' Epitaph' is counterpointed beautifully by the aching electric guitar riff of 'The Great Bear Rising'), although they have all been re-recorded. There's nothing new in that idea of course, Le Orme did something similar with 'Amico di Ieri' but I think Court pull it off better. The question for me is: How do they manage to give inspiration to old material?

Well, the album was recorded between 2007-2012 but is the product of a project begun in 2006. It was originally conceived as part of a 2-CD release; one disc was to have consisted of new material and another disc of acoustic versions of old songs. The project was abandoned as being over-ambitious although it saw the release of 'Frost of Watermelon' and the recording of some of the acoustic stuff here.

The band's intention was to better articulate the mood of the songs, so for example on the opening track 'Cries' there are no longer any sampled sounds of a victorious army marching home and there is no extended intro of garageland guitars. We're thrown straight into the thick of the action with rabble-rousing cries of 'Tell me! Tell Me! Where the soldiers have gone to die... Wasted! Wasted! Wasted the lands behind them / Now the king is satisfied.' This 'in the middle of things' device enlivens the track and combines with the battle of wills between acoustic and electric guitars to convey the anti-war strife.

The album also gives Court the chance to really stretch out and expand some tracks, giving more space to explore their musical vision. The album's symphonic centrepiece 'Sumptuous Moment' is their reading of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and concerns man's exploitation of nature. It has been greatly extended from its original version so I won't try to trace the disorienting trajectory of its 22-minutes but it conveys a sense of wandering lost in a perilous forest. If Court's original plan for this album was overly ambitious, there's certainly no poverty of ambition here either.

The album is broadly themed around encounters with kings and it also represents a chance for listeners to meet new vocalist Marco Pedrini; all vocals are in English, which is of course something of a mixed blessing but given the importance of the narratives it's a good thing overall. For instance, the epic 'Alviss' Revenge' is based on eddaic poetry and concerns the story of Alviss and his two brothers, their valkyrie brides, stolen rings, the envious king Garm etc., and google translate simply wouldn't have cut the mustard.

This year's new prog releases have set the bar pretty high but don't overlook 'Twenty Flying Kings' - it's a fine album and should be of equal interest to Court newcomers as well as fans looking for new material hewn out of old.

Review by seventhsojourn (progarchives.com)
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[spoiler="Состав"]
- Marco Pedrini / vocals, synth
- Mosé Nodari / guitars, oboe, flutes, backing vocals
- Marco Strobel / guitars, mandolin and backing vocals
- Jacopo Favrin / bass guitar
- Francesco Vedani: drums, transverse flutes, recorders, synth
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[spoiler="Ссылки на другие альбомы (lossless) группы Court"]
Court - Distances (1997): https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089273
Court - Frost of Watermelon (2007): https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4519953
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