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Safer in Chains

by Imaginary Kings

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1.
Safer in Chains 05:36
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2.
Starlit Black 05:38 video
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3.
1 : 33 03:33
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4.
Malice 05:17
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5.
Wake Word 03:27
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6.
Time Lines 04:50
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7.
Personal Column 04:44
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8.
Worms Eye View 04:17
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9.
That Big Winter 03:21
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10.
Self Harm 03:30
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11.
Checkmate 06:21
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12.
One for the Road 04:19
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about

The album came together in the months following the release of "Monsters Lament", with a mixture of existing and newly-written pieces.

The two of us live over 3,500 miles apart, but came together through the medium of the online collaboration site Kompoz.com, in the days before COVID made online collaboration an everyday necessity for many musicians.

The album title comes from Franz Kafka's quote - "It is often safer to be in chains than to be free" .

Franz is the one human being on the cover, all the others were generated by AI, maybe in the not too distant future those chains will feel a lot safer still.

The title track is a reworking of an earlier individual track "Dear Jupiter", this time as an instrumental.. other tracks have been worked on since lockdowns came and went, and the most recently recorded track, "Checkmate" was started and finished within 24 hours this July.

1:33 am is the default time that my old digital analog alarm clock resets to when power is cut.. If there is an afterlife, I am hoping that it starts again at 1:33.

Thanks to everyone involved in helping get this off the ground but especially the musicians at Kompoz.com

Peter & Nick.

credits

released August 14, 2023

Peter Rand - Keyboards / Guitars (all tracks), Bass (11)
Nick DeNardo - Drums / Engineering (all tracks)

Plus -

Bass - Jim Bryan (1, 3, and 12) , Steve Johnson (2), Philippe Pansard (4), Chris Branch (6), Chad B (9), Santtu the Sane (8)

Lead Guitars - Francois Vingrief (1), Whitman Rinaldo (1), Ralph Tonge (6), John Schilling (10)

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Imaginary Kings Wirral, UK

Imaginary Kings are Nick DeNardo (Drums) and Peter Rand (Keys/Guitars).
Our third album "Safer in Chains" is now out! Here's a review of our previous album "Monsters Lament" - theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2022/10/22/imaginary-kings-monsters-lament/ ... more

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