Clive Nolan & Oliver Wakeman’s Dark Fables will be released on November 5, 2021. This standalone release was originally the third CD from Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman’s Tales By Gaslight box set released earlier this year.

Dark Fables contains over 30 minutes of music conceived for the abandoned Frankenstein album which would have joined the duo’s Jabberwocky and Hound Of The Baskervilles collaborations. As with the previous albums, Dark Fables features the duo’s virtuosic keyboard playing with sublime performances from Gordon Giltrap, Paul Manzi (The Sweet, Arena, Oliver Wakeman Band). Andy Sears (Twelfth Night), Karl Groom (Threshold), David Mark Pearce (Oliver Wakeman Band, Munroe's Thunder) and Charlotte Dickerson.

The set also includes unused pieces from their The Hound Of The Baskervilles album; “The Man Called Sherlock”, which was the original version of the “Overture”, and “221B”, inspired by Sherlock Holmes’ famous address in Baker Street. In addition, the release also features Rick Wakeman narrating the “Jabberwocky Poem” in full, a perfect way to round off the twists and turns of another Nolan/Wakeman project.

Clive Nolan (Pendragon, Arena) and Oliver Wakeman (YES, Strawbs) first combined their considerable keyboard and compositional talents to create the two aforementioned rock opera/concept albums in 1999 and 2002. Peter Pracownik was the creative behind the original The Hound Of The Baskervilles artwork 20 years ago and has employed his talents again for the sleeve of Dark Fables.

Purchase the CD at cherryred.co.uk.

Tracklisting:

“The Overture”
“I’d Give You Anything”
“The Mirror”
“Elizabeth”
“Why Do You Hate Me?”
“The Wedding Approaches”
“Time Passe”
“A Descent Into Madness”
“221B”
“The Man Called Sherlock”
“The Baker Street Irregulars”
“The Jabberwocky”

“Why Do You Hate Me?”: