Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Elflock Records ('Tales By Gaslight' box set),
Spirit of Unicorn Music (standalone CD)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 23, 2021 (in 'Tales By Gaslight' box set), November 5, 2021 (standalone CD, digital)
Tracklist
1. The Overture (4:07)
2. I'd Give You Everything (2:57)
3. The Mirror (5:17)
4. Elizabeth (2:01)
5. Why Do You Hate Me? (3:51)
6. The Wedding Approaches (4:30)
7. Time Passes (3:23)
8. A Descent Into Madness (4:47)
9. 221B (2:00)
10. The Man Called Sherlock (7:03)
11. The Baker Street Irregulars (2:39)
12. The Jabberwocky (1:47)
Total Time 44:22
Clive Nolan (Pendragon, Arena) - keyboards, piano (3, 4), vocals (3), backing vocals (7)
Oliver Wakeman - keyboards, piano (2, 6-10), bass (3, 7, 11)
With
Gordon Giltrap - classical guitar (6)
Paul Manzi (The Sweet, Arena, Oliver Wakeman) - vocals (5, 10)
Andy Sears (Twelfth Night) - vocals (2, 7)
Karl Groom (Threshold) - acoustic guitar (2)
David Mark Pearce (Oliver Wakeman, Munroe's Thunder) - electric guitar (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11), acoustic guitar (8, 10, 11)
Charlotte Dickerson - vocals (6), backing vocals (2)
Tim Nunes - violin (1, 6, 11)
Adam Nunes - cello (11)
Rick Wakeman (Yes) - narration (12)
Description/Reviews:
Dark Fables’ contains over 30 minutes of music conceived for the abandoned ‘Frankenstein’ album which would have joined the duo’s ‘Jabberwocky’ and ‘Hound Of The Baskervilles’ collaborations.
The set also includes unused pieces from their ‘The Hound Of The Baskervilles’ album; ‘The Man Called Sherlock’, which was the original version of the ‘Overture’, and ‘221B’, inspired by Sherlock Holmes’ famous address in Baker Street.
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