{"id":18025,"date":"2022-11-19T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2022-11-19T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:40:04","slug":"sonja-kristina-of-curved-air-narrates-neuschwansteins-1976-progressive-rock-epic-alice-in-wonderland-album-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/sonja-kristina-of-curved-air-narrates-neuschwansteins-1976-progressive-rock-epic-alice-in-wonderland-album-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja Kristina of Curved Air Narrates Neuschwanstein\u2019s 1976 Progressive Rock Epic \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d Album \u2013 OUT NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original version of Neuschwanstein\u2019s \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d had narration in German but, for the first time, this has been replaced with English language parts read by Sonja Kristina of Curved Air.<br>Musically this 1976 album belongs among the great prog albums and sits between Rick Wakeman\u2019s and Jeff Wayne\u2019s iconic narrated rock albums.&nbsp;This edition has been re-mastered with a booklet that includes two separate sets of liner notes (with rare images) on the history of the band and Sonja Kristina\u2019s 2022 vocal sessions.<br>Sonja Kristina said of the release&nbsp;<em>\u201cI was delighted to narrate this wonderful psychedelic musical version of Alice\u2019s dream in a dramatic instrumental landscape.&nbsp; I loved Alice in Wonderland as a child and I\u2019ve really enjoyed returning to the magic of this story. This album deserves to be thought of as a classic progressive rock album of the 1970s, so I\u2019m pleased to have recorded the narration for it.\u201d<\/em><br>This was the only mid-1970s album in the \u2018Narrated Rock\u2019 genre to be unavailable in English\u2026until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Available from:<\/strong>Amazon CD:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/AliceCD\">https:\/\/geni.us\/AliceCD<\/a><br>Spotify:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/AliceSP\">https:\/\/geni.us\/AliceSP<\/a><br>Apple Music:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/AliceAM\">https:\/\/geni.us\/AliceAM<\/a><br><strong>Orders placed directly with Cherry Red (while stocks last) will come with a postcard signed by Sonja Kristina:<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/product\/neuschwanstein-alice-in-wonderland-ft-sonja-kristina\/\">https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/product\/neuschwanstein-alice-in-wonderland-ft-sonja-kristina\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original version of Neuschwanstein\u2019s \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d had narration in German but, for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[226,166,125,51,2405],"class_list":["post-18025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-classic-rock","tag-curved-air","tag-prog","tag-progressive-rock","tag-sonja-kristina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18027,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions\/18027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}