As has often happened I've ended up with most of an album's worth of material and then been stuck for that last track. There is an instrumental I was grooming for that position, but I got stuck and went back to a song from a few years ago, variously known as '256.cwp' or 'The Windows Song'.
Originally this was a gripe about the monopoly of a certain software giant, but fortunately the world has moved on somewhat from those days. Still, I liked the music so I decided to finish the song first and then worry about writing new lyrics for it afterwards. And that was a problem, until I hit on the idea of taking my side comic 'The Dark Angel' and wrote lyrics for a very abridged version of that story.
The playout at the end with the spacey noises is something I did before on 'Demonhunter' but I decided it was time to try it again.
lyrics
King Ordros (From the Chronicles of Jakob Pettersohn)
“Oh no,” said he, “You must love me
And obey me without a frown
Unless you do, I shall execute you
For insulting the kingdom’s crown”
There was a king, he was a tyrant
He acted like an overlord
He used to have opponents, but he put them all to the sword
A pair of men, two swords for hire
Were blackmailed into robbing the king
Regain the stolen treasures he had taken under his wing
So this is the story of Ordros the King
A story of dragons and dreams
A story of hubris and righting of wrongs
Where nothing is quite how it seems
When they were caught, they struck a bargain
The Princess had been stolen away
Unless they could return her, they would lose their heads right away
There was a land, owned by a dragon
The place the princess had been seen last
The headsman tagged along to make sure both men stuck to their task
So this is the story of Ordros the King
A story of dragons and dreams
A story of hubris and righting of wrongs
Where nothing is quite how it seems
Deep in the forest where none would hear
The headsman made his position clear
“I know you won’t trust me,
but I hate the king and he must be stopped!”
They knocked the door, which was tall and stout
The dragon answered and threw them out
“We’ll have to try trickery instead, then”
Once past the walls they scoured the halls
For some hair or a scrap of dress
They found that day, to their dismay
That the dragon was the princess.
So she explained, why she’d absconded
The Queen had been beheaded for treason
The Princess fled in case she faced the same end for the same reason
They had a coup, led by the Princess
The headsman did away with the King
It turned out he could shapeshift and so no-one noticed a thing
So this was the story of Ordros the King,
A story of dragons and dreams
A story of treason and righting of wrongs
Where nothing is quite how it seems
Siguiendo la evolución de Michael Whiteman , encontramos temas con desarrollos más largos introduciendo piano , xilófono y flauta . Buscando un estilo más propio digamos . Igor Huertas
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Basically a great album with top-notch songwriting... unfortunately bloated with annoying improvisations and other distracting noise, which wreck the wonderful musical arcs in an instant. As people sometimes say, "less would have been more"... Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)