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by Court

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The turn I was gifted According to the flights of my soul Sensible to the calls of companions Wider spaces I visited And my port quite finally I found At a spring of purer sounds Many moons looked after the sleeps Of creatures at night Whiles my eyes were roaming And were waiting for you to come To my enchanted shelter But none has followed the narrow And none has accepted the gift of my sounds Now here I lay Amid bushes of lilacs in bloom ..now here I lay in bloom. Will it please to my visions I was cut as a spring of these flowers And brought to cover over my grave Monument of a mercy misused Among you Distance an empire that conquers and wastes A cage of beauty and grace Rules now the abyss…. ...in between… I’ve asked: “Does my singing live Just when someone is enjoying it? Or maybe it behaves like the wind That blows over seas Although there are no leaves to stir?” I say: “It lives because someone has lived and sang it …it lives because someone has lived” I offer my donations of air caged in tones To the altar of Nature built upon the memories of a dusk in the past There I thank for existence I’d like not to expect any sign from your side of the abyss I’d love to live on my creed and my poetry But I’m not strong enough… And sometimes among the red heather I feel lost then I wait a call from you From far to break down this solitude and silence Am I wrong when I pay no respect to my soul And those voices, and those sounds So pure and too high? Or am I just alone?”
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Joy 09:15
Joy Joy is the colour in may Nature she knows When green echoes twittering blue Of early song birds Song birds The early song birds And turquoise voice of a nurse Thins the crimson reveries of a baby And turquoise voice of a nurse Thins the crimson reveries of a baby And red and grey is the mutter Of wives under sheds… In the evening Under sheds in the evening Yellow is the tinkle of meadows skimmed by the sun A wedding ring to the Earth But when the spark stolen by the wind of East From the Sun nest will set on fire The roof of the hut Supreme for us will be the torture of Eagle For all the colours of deceit into white Will be drowned by the Moon Too sad is the sight of a withered flower To be extinguished in a life time A lark departs from the nest A brood will starve tonight Too hard to bear are the wailings of a deer Swept by the flood So easy is to chase the golden hare Sheltering from Moon under dewy woods Courage is just standing still and stop the run But Procyon and the hunter Never quit their foolish pursuit And yet the nymphs of June Are offering a new necklace Made up with colours and deceits Made up with colours and deceits My mother land, my mother land, my mother land…
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The spell of the rain A grace is the rain For those who can rest Silent drowning no quest So come maids of water And the holiest of you Wash deep all the images For I want to recall That kernel of light Life dust has obscured As I was passing by….by… Once she came on a tidal wave Her gift: a breath of a rare life Violent was the sea and jealous When far abducted its gorgeous daughter Call her? …. Call her? No, a name ain’t enough for my lady…lady A choir perhaps could give her smile But ten thousands voices won’t least to found An universe of resounding harmonics…harmonics Taking by the hand I have she said she is too cold….. Just a sign Still we feel divided from far she calls me Inside the screaming Taking by the hand I have she said she is too…..
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View Gone 03:08
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Sumptuous moment “I robbed the woods The trusting woods The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses My fantasy to please I scanned their trinkets curious I grasped I bore away What will the solemn hemlock What will the oak tree say?” “A chill came up as from a shaft Our moon became a well” (Emily Dickinson) Sky’s going to mourning Ritual pyres are cast for light’s everyday missing The past lays down the day for coming ages Moor holds up their fragile limbs Throwing itself in the mercy of the night After the daily betrayal for the sun Witness is the marten Judge the faithful owl Haughty winds chase dust through hidden paths Whiles Night issues decree with bellow Frost beheads the flowers In vain sheltering in buds The colours own their creed of Sun Worshipers And severe the lightning obeys Freezing afflicted shapes into time The image and everlasting jail Exhausted darkness melts in drops of light Yet unborn to the sight Eager is the ground for the blood of the night fight
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Carved Box 14:06
Carved box She looked out of the window Out of the iced garden She looked down and down she went For the time of her fall A farewell to distance ...too late, too far The stone bench Where thoughts of delight used to fondle her The high trees bare of their past colours No pain with her When she first rode the air With Betty and Tess she climbed up the apple tree..... When she was young She foresaw all the world in her garden In the trees in the snow In the secrets of her carved box The grumbling of the leaves Can't heal anymore her spoiled life The shape of the box appears lost In the melting snow Glittering hands It's the time to unlock Not to surrender to the fears anymore Her childhood's hopes Drowsed for too long In the heavy silence of the garden The fancy sun in the morning Kissing her bed The never-ending afternoons late in August When her mother found her Under shelter from the rain She recalls the day, when she waited, for so long In front of the path obscured by the wood She moves fast through the places of her youth Reality is bent by the strength of her memories No place is safe from the past And what she tried to ignore Forces the defences of her mind Faster she moves fast through the places of her youth Searching for the long lost way out The wall where she stopped When the wind blew far her balloon The wall where she coughed For the dust risen behind The wall where she stood Confused by the screams From the parted garden so wide and yet unknown Called world, called world Where she opens her box Though many seasons have aged all her senses Still her mind yearns for far new experiences And the box is now closing With her walk through the time Kept safe inside
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Close 04:26

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Tracklist:
Shàntal (far)
The Turn I Was Gifted
Joy
The Spell of the Rain
View Gone
Sumptuous Moment
Carved Box
Close

Line-up:
Paolo Lucchina: vocals
Mosè Nodari: guitars, oboe, recorders and keyboards
Luigi Bonacina: bass guitar
Andrea Costanza: guitars
Francesco Vedani: drums

Recorded at Audio Concepts Studio in Hergenfeld (Germany) in April/May 1996.
Produced by Andreas Kopp and Court

Additional musicians:
Giorgio Salvetti: grand piano, keyboards and flute
Alberto Maroni Biroldi: Percussions

Artwork:
Cristina Larghi ("I'd like to thank my irreplaceble travelling companion Mosè and my uncle Marino Bazzotti").
Thank to Erica Meriggi for some photos of the collage. Paolo thanks Stefano and Erica Meriggi for the "Freak" picture.

The band thanks:
Ignazio, Angela, Angelo Costanza for the hospitality, tiny little Shàntal Kopp for the opening nursery rhyme with Cristina.
For the management Ettore and Lilly Zanatta.
Andrea Perotti for the Shakespeare's recitative (look for it!), Jurgen Stork, Alberto's drum kit, Alessandra Mauri, Alessandro Bordin and Luca Castiglioni. Thanks to Benedetta Scotti.
All families, friends and our new companion Boll (Andrea Balliano)!


Produced by Peter Wustmann for the Music is Intelligence

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released October 6, 1997

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Court Varese, Italy

The Prog-Rock-Alternative band COURT started in 1990, four album and two singles (included in prog compilations) has been released. The music filters progressive, folk and ancient music, generating a new & original sound.
After intensive Tour in Europe and USA, the band was noticed by US promoters and in 2007 Court participated at the “Los Angeles Music Awards" winning as “Best Alternative Artist”
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