Splendid Iceolation
Ninth iCE KiNG album, released as Compact Disc in 2020, as well as digitally

All epics are being performed still, in a variety of ways







I. Seven Islands Bay
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "The Bay of Seven Islands" by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

II. Renaissance
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included (in Latin) from Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) and Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677), and chiefly (in English) from "Something Left Undone" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

III. The Reason We Fight
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Valkyriur Song" by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
(Alternate version on Gallus X as Poséidon)

IV. Ivanhoe
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "The Crusader's Return" and "Saxon War-song" by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
(Other Scott epics with Lord Lochinvar on EpiC CentrE and Sérénade Saxonne on Gallus X)

V. Excelsior
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Excelsior" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

VI. Titanheart
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Prometheus" by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

VII. For the Brave and Free
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "The Minstrel Boy" by Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
(Earlier recording on TWiCE KiNG)

Pars Altera Trilogia (Instrumental Speech III):
Guitar composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
(Instrumental Speech I on VIrtue & VIrtuosity, II on TWiCE KiNG and IV on Eleventh Elevation)

VIII. Blue, Red and Blood - Pars Altera Bis
(Blue, Red and Blood - Pars Altera on EpiC CentrE)
IX. Tour of Honour - Pars Altera Bis
(Tour of Honour - Pars Altera on Victory iV)
X. Evensong - Pars Altera Bis
(Evensong - Pars Altera on Second Sailing)

XI. Anacreon
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included (in ancient Greek) from Anacreon (c. 582-485 BC) and chiefly translations of Anacreon (in English) by Lord Byron (1788-1824)
(Alternate version on Gallus X as Niemandsland)



Booklet painting: "The Bard" by John Martin (1789-1854)

Simultaneous projections of paintings, live or online, respectively:
I. "Ein Seesturm an der norwegischen Küste" by Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910)
III. "Battle of Clontarf" by Hugh Frazer (1795-1865)
VII. "The Bard" by Thomas Jones (1742-1803)



"Splendid isolation" was originally employed and misemployed to describe the British policy in the Victorian era

"The sleeve note for this 9th, through and through iCE KiNG disc can be brief, yet all the more important! Behold my definition of goosebumps, in 59 minutes and 59 seconds..."