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Release Date: 2024-01Label: 4iB Records
Edition of 300, with four sided insert.No durations given on the release.
Back cover lists the two sides as I and II, but Matrix inscriptions and labels list them as A and B.
The first 60 copies sold by the label came in a green envelope with a numbered sticker of the front cover.
Full Credits from the insert:
Ulysses
Digamma Cottage arr. by Andrew King.
Composed, written, & arranged by Enzo Loffreda. Orchestral arrangements by Enzo Loffreda and Simone Fiorletta.
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Simone Fiorletta at S.F. Studios, Alatri, Italy, October-November 2013.
Text setting and vocals: Andrew King.
Vocal recording & production, orchestral post-production, & mastering by Edward Grayclaws, at Edgray Studios, Barcelona, 30th December 2013-6th January 2014.
Cor Cordium
Digamma Cottage arr. AimA, with contributions from Andrew King.
Composed, written, & arranged by Enzo Loffreda. Orchestral arrangements by Enzo Loffreda and Simone Fiorletta
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Simone Fiorletta at S.F. Studios, Alatri, Italy, October-November 2013.
Arrangement, vocals, backing vocals and overtone harp: AimA.
Backing vocals and Ice Pad: Evor Ameisie; AimA & Evor Ameisie recorded 2014.
Vocals: Andrew King.
AK vocals, and orchestral post-production, recorded by Hunter Barr at Retina II July 2017.
Both tracks mixed by Hunter at Retina II May-June 2019, with a subsequent mix of Cor Cordium by AimA June-July 2020.
Mastering of both tracks for vinyl by Hunter Barr at Retina II May-June 2019 & December 2020-March 2021.
Lyric transcriptions & notes by Andrew King. Cover design concept by King, typeset and arranged by Gerald Tan.
Front cover
Herbert James Draper: Ulysses and the Sirens (1909), Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull.
Back cover
Benjamin Robert Haydon: William Wordsworth (1842), Dunham Massey Hall, nr. Altrincham.
With thanks to David, Stéphane, & Gerald for their support, over the years, for this release.
Textual sources:
Ulysses: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).
Written 1833: First published in Poems by Alfred Tennyson [2vols] (London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1842), vol. II, pp. 88-91.
Cor Cordium: William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
from verse XVIII (p. 128), of ‘The Thorn’, from Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798), pp. 117-132.