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Noi siamo gli eroi
03:15
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Or Prologue to the Odyssey
The story starts with the ten-years-long Troian war. That's how Ulysses, King of Ithaca, built up the reknown wooden horse trick, putting the city of Troy under siege...not from outside the walls, but from the deep core of the town itself! Now the Gods behold the raging war, the spilling blood, the clash of swords: hail the Heroes!!!
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Rovine all'orizzonte
04:50
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or The Destruction of Troy
After the titanic war, the mighty Warlords of Greece finally sailed on the way back home. Ulysses was watching the city of Troy falling on the horizon, wrapped in fire and smoke. No one could imagine the furious storm that was about to come, leading the Achean ship off course, to mysterious lands and high adventures...
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Il fiore dell'oblio
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or The Lotus Eaters
...first, the storm drove the ship to the isle of Cythera, where the inhabitants offered the fellowship the fruit of illusion. Ulysses' mates fell into a celestial trance, losing their will and all their memories. Only the King of Ithaca could help them!
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Scacco al Ciclope
02:12
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or My name is Nobody!
Ulysses saved his mates from Polyphemus by offering him some wine till the cyclop fall drunk. Then they made him blind by stucking in his lonely eye a sharpened, fired log. When the One-Eyed shouted out his rage and suffering, asking who had made him blind, Ulysses answered: “my name is Nobody!”.
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Signora degli inganni
03:19
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or A Lovely and Lustful Witchcraft
Circe the Sorceress' story is very well known too: she turned Ulysses' mates into swines, than blackmailed the adventurer to have him in her bed. And so it was, for just one year, until Ulysses decided to take his way back to Ithaca....
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La profezia
03:13
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or Descending into Hades
...but, before he left Circe's mansion, the Sorceress lead him straight into the Realm of the Dead. That's how Ulysses met the prophet Tiresias, and how that blind man foretold his return to Ithaca. Oh, what kind of dangers and adventures Ulysses has still to face, before Tiresias' prophecy would have been fulfilled?
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Canto di sirene
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or Approaching deadly rocks
Warning!!! The Sirens awaits by the rocks, temptating every sailor with their half-human beauty and lovely chanting: you can easily be amazed by them, but this will surely lead you to death! Again, the Man of Knowledge and Curiosity wanted to experience, so he made himself be tied to the mainmast, to both listen and restist the Sirens' sweet and deadly call.
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Cavalca la burrasca
04:14
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or Through The Gale Of Love
The love story of Ulysses and Calypso, the Oceanine Nymph, lasted seven years, but Man's heart was strong enough to keep inside the will of seeing his homeland again. So it was: the Gods on high warned The Nymph to let his love sail forever...
NOTE: this version is a tribute-song to the hit “She's Gone” by Steelheart (1990).
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L'interminabile tela
01:41
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or The Trick
Meanwhile in Ithaca, Queen Penelope, still faithful to her husband Ulysses, cheated the Suitors delaying her new marriage with a trick: she would have married one of them only when have ended weaving a web. What a artful trick it was! That web seemed to be neverending...
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Itaca (slight return)
03:59
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or The Final Journey of the Beggar King
Ulysses' return to his homeland: Goddess Athena gave the King the look of an old beggar, so he could return to his now tamed kingdom without being recognized...
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Troppe volte addio
03:56
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or Now You're dying in my arms
...with the exception of Argo, Ulysses' dog, that waited a lifetime just to see his best friend once more. He surely recognized Ulysses, now with a beggar's semblance, than he let himself die while the tears were flowing. The raging King showed himself to the Suitors, and shoot'em one by one, with mighty arrows of Vengeance.
The Gods still hail the Champion of Ithaca!
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Sidereal Fortress Florence, Italy
A surviving minstrel, a trobadour come from the mists of time...
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