Victory iV
Fourth iCE KiNG album, released as Compact Disc in 2014, as well as digitally
All epics are being performed still, in a variety of ways
I. Spirit of Sherwood
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Robin Hood" (traditional)
II. False Prophets
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Misfortunes of Elphin" by Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
(Alternate version on Gallus X as Sérénade Saxonne)
III. Tour of Honour
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Go, Hart, Unto the Lamp of Licht" (traditional)
IV. Metafusion I
Guitar composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
(Metafusion II below, III and IV on VIrtue & VIrtuosity [and TWiCE KiNG], and V and VI on Eleventh Elevation)
V. Veni Vene
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "To the Evening Star" by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
(Later recording on TWiCE KiNG)
VI. Palace Charming
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Home, no more home to me..." by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
VII. The Return of the Viking King
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Sea-King's Burial" by Charles Mackay (1812-1889) and (in Old Icelandic) from "Snorra Edda" by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241)
(Alternate version on Gallus X as De Mont Blanc)
VIII. Metafusion II
Guitar composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
(Metafusion I above, III and IV on VIrtue & VIrtuosity [and TWiCE KiNG], and V and VI on Eleventh Elevation)
IX. Riding West
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Farewell, fair day and fading light" and "He hears with gladdened heart the thunder" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
X. Tour of Honour - Pars Altera
Guitars composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
(Tour of Honour - Pars Altera Bis on Splendid Iceolation)
Booklet photographs by Death Bird Art at Domein van Kwabbeek, Belgium
Simultaneous projections of paintings, live or online, respectively:
III. "Elaine" by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
IV. "Rain, Steam and Speed" by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
V. "Felsentor" by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841)
VI. "Mediterende Monnik bij Nachtelijke Ruïne" by Fredrik Marinus Kruseman (1816-1882)
VII. "The Funeral of a Viking" by Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)
"Fourth victory. Many who talk victory though, seem to think in terms of winners and losers. This is far from being adequate. Considering
the plenty casualties on either side in battle, in fact everyone has lost. Also, it is possible to victory without
there being a loser at all. If one victories over himself that is, vis-à-vis the unfortunate setting in which he
is thrown or his own lower inclinations. We should deem a man doing so worthy of the name king, and in this sense
everyone can be a king in principal. Or, more correctly, be-come a king, since it is not some title on the wall,
but an enduring challenge honourably taken..."
