Title - Alice in Wonderland
Artist - Sonja Kristina
For those unaware, the original version of Neuschwanstein�s �Alice in Wonderland� had narration in German but, for the first time, this has been replaced with English language parts read by Sonja Kristina of Curved Air.
Musically this 1976 album belongs among the great prog albums and sits between Rick Wakeman�s and Jeff Wayne�s iconic narrated rock albums. This edition has been re-mastered with a booklet that includes two separate sets of liner notes (with rare images) on the history of the band and Sonja Kristina�s 2022 vocal sessions.
Sonja Kristina said of the release �I was delighted to narrate this wonderful psychedelic musical version of Alice�s dream in a dramatic instrumental landscape. I loved Alice in Wonderland as a child and I�ve really enjoyed returning to the magic of this story. This album deserves to be thought of as a classic progressive rock album of the 1970s, so I�m pleased to have recorded the narration for it.�
1. White Rabbit
2. Gate To Wonderland
3. Pond Of Tears
4. Old Father�s Song
5. Five O�Clock Tea
6. Palace Of Wonderland
7. The Court Of The Animals
8. Alice�s Return
This beautifully orchestrated album opens on the short instrumental White Rabbit and then bleeds seamlessly into the melodically-themed Gate To Wonderland and then we get the just-barely narrated, yet free-flowingly elegant Pond Of Tears and the flute, piano and keyboard-imbued instrumental Old Father�s Song.
Up next is the gorgeously sumptuous Five O�Clock Tea and then we get the 12 minute opus Palace Of Wonderland, which showcases some of prog rock at it�s best (and is, at times, also comparable to maybe Camel, Old Genesis, sometimes Jethro Tull, a little bit Grobschnitts rockpommels land), the recording rounding out on the lyrically playful The Court Of The Animals, coming to a close on the symphonically-charged Alice�s Return.
This was the only mid-1970s album in the �Narrated Rock� genre to be unavailable in English�until now.
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