CLIVE NOLAN & OLIVER WAKEMAN – Dark Fables (2021)
Cherry Red Records is releasing today CLIVE NOLAN & OLIVER WAKEMAN collaboration album ”Dark Fables” containing over 30 minutes of music conceived for the abandoned “Frankenstein” album which would have joined the duo’s “Jabberwocky” (1999) and “Hound Of The Baskervilles” (2002) collaborations.
The material of unreleased third album “Frankenstein” is finally released now. As with the previous LP’s, “Dark Fables” features the duo’s virtuosic keyboard playing with sublime performances from vocalists Paul Manzi (The Sweet, Arena), Andy Sears (Twelfth Night), Charlotte Dickerson, guitarists Karl Groom (Threshold), Gordon Giltrap, David Mark Pearce (Oliver Wakeman Band) and more.
”Dark Fables” is almost like a musical fairytale with bombastic keyboard based symphonic rock and a very impressive line-up where the singers and the musicians are really great and very skilled. The music is a mix between the bands they usually are playing in: ARENA, PENDRAGON, YES, and add some LANDMARQ, MAGNUM, AYREON, etc…
