Gandalf's Fist "The Clockwork Fable"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 1, 2016
Tracklist: 
CD 1 - Act I: The Day the Great Cog Failed (66:55)
1. The Traveller and the Lighter (4:13)
2. Shadowborn (6:51)
3. The Unminable Zone (2:32)
4. The Lamplighter (Parts I-VIII) (15:57)
5. In the Cavern of the Great Cog (3:52)
6. The Great Cog (5:15)
7. The Shadow Rises... (5:52)
8. The Capture (Including the Song for a Fallen Nightkeeper) (6:51)
9. Waiting for Exile (7:05)
10. Eve's Song (8:27)

CD 2 - Act II: Of Men and Worms (65:15)
1. A Sermon for Shadowmas (1:18)
2. Victims of the Light (9:10)
3. Old Friends, New Enemies (4:23)
4. Ditchwater Daisies (7:22)
5. De-ranged (3:30)
6. The Lamplighter (Parts IX-XIII) (12:13)
7. In the Name of the Spy (2:56)
8. The Bewildering Conscience of a Clockwork Child (10:20)
9. Escape! (3:25)
10. A Solemn Toast for the Steam Ranger Reborn (10:38)

CD 3 - Act III: From Burrows We Came (61:52)
1. The Oldest Flame (1:58)
2. The Lamplighter (Parts XIV-XV) (2:58)
3. Flight for the Surface (2:10)
4. The Climb (12:24)
5. At the Summit (8:05)
6. Fight for the Light (8:08)
7. Quest for Power (1:12)
8. At the Sign of the Aperture (12:33)
9. A Machine Serves His Purpose (1:30)
10. The Clockwork Fable (5:13)
11. Escape from Cogtopolis (1:14)
12. Through the Lens (3:25)
33. Epilogue - Oh Bugger! (1:02)

Total Time 194:02

Line-up: 
Dean Marsh - Guitar/Synths/Mandolin/Octave Mandola/Bass
Christopher Ewen - Bass/Bargain Snacks
Stefan Hepe - Drums/Percussion
    with
Matt Stevens - Ambient Guitars
Dave Oberlé - Bodhrán/Tan-Tan
Nathan Madsen - Saxophone

The Choir:
Dean Marsh - The singing voice of the good people of Cogtopolis
Luke Severn - The singing voice of the Nightkeepers
Arjen Lucassen - Sung words of Armistead
Blaze Bayley - Sung words of the Primarch
Dave Oberlé - Sung words of Pastor Simon
Melissa Hollick - Sung words of Eve
Dying Seed - Background chants

The Actors:
Mark Benton - Spoken words of the Lamplighter/Prison Guard/First Secretary
Zach Galligan - Spoken words of the Steam Ranger
Tim Munro - Spoken words of the Tinker
Alicia Marsh - Spoken words of Eve
Paul Barnhill - Spoken words of Pastor Simon
Bill Fellows - Spoken words of Armistead/Nightkeeper Spy
Paul Kavanagh - Spoken words of the Primarch/Nightkeeper Brethren
Christopher Ewen - Spoken words of the Boy
Luke Severn - Spoken words of Second Secretary/another Nightkeeper Brethren

Description/Reviews: 

Cogtopolis, the city beneath the surface, no daylight has been seen by the inhabitants in living memory. The Sun: a whisper, a legend.
Dive down into the world of clockwork mechanisms and a fantastic 3-act story of a few rebellious inhabitants fleeing from the alleged safety into uncertainty...
Check out clockworkfable.com/The-Clockwork-Fable-The-Story.html for more information...

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