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Released | October 28, 2009 | |||
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Length | 2:01:30 | |||
Label | Lava | |||
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Night Castle is the fifth studio album by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was released on October 28, 2009 as a double CD with a 60-page booklet illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt,[ citation needed] and debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard charts and No. 1 on the rock music charts. [ citation needed] It was certified gold in eight weeks and is currently a platinum album. [ citation needed]
The story revolves around a young child on a beach late at night, where she encounters a mysterious but non-threatening stranger. While they build a sandcastle together by the light of a bonfire, he tells her a tale that takes her all around the world and throughout history. The characters of this story include an American Vietnam War soldier named William Cozier, the Renaissance era philosopher Erasmus who is keeper of the eponymous castle of lost knowledge, and a Communist general based on the dissident Tran Do. [3]
In 2011, Atlantic released the album on vinyl in an eight side (four disc) set in a special slip box designed to avoid the cracked corners that plague many vinyl box sets. The album includes a version of Kim Fowley's Nut Rocker as a tribute to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who in turn had performed the song as a tribute to Tchaikovsky. Greg Lake from Emerson, Lake & Palmer honored the band by playing bass on the album. [4]
Bonus tracks include the songs "Child of the Night" and "Believe" which, according to the band, are a glimpse into future projects. [ citation needed] An additional bonus track, "The Flight of Cassandra", was available exclusively online on Amazon.com, the first time that TSO had done something like this. [ citation needed]
Some of the songs on Night Castle trace their origins to music written by Savatage, the heavy metal band from which the Trans-Siberian Orchestra evolved.
The album was rated 2.5 stars out of 5 by Allmusic, while the site's users gave it an average rating of 3.5 stars, based on 38 reviews. [7]
As of April, 2013, iTunes customers rated it an average of 4.5 on a scale of 1 to 5. [8]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Length |
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1. | "Night Enchanted" | Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Paul O'Neill | 5:46 | |
2. | "Childhood Dreams" | O'Neill, Jon Oliva | Jay Pierce | 4:25 |
3. | "Sparks" | O'Neill | Tim Hockenberry | 6:01 |
4. | " The Mountain" (Instrumental - originally performed by Savatage as "Prelude To Madness") | Edvard Grieg, O'Neill, Oliva | 4:54 | |
5. | "Night Castle" | O'Neill, Oliva | Jeff Scott Soto | 3:57 |
6. | "The Safest Way into Tomorrow" | O'Neill, Oliva | Pierce | 4:57 |
7. | "Mozart and Memories" (Instrumental - originally performed by Savatage as "Mozart and Madness") | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, O'Neill, Oliva | 5:16 | |
8. | "Another Way You Can Die" | O'Neill, Oliva | Soto | 3:54 |
9. | " Toccata – Carpimus Noctem" (Instrumental) | Johann Sebastian Bach, O'Neill | 4:02 | |
10. | "The Lion's Roar" (Instrumental) | O'Neill, Al Pitrelli | 4:36 | |
11. | "Dreams We Conceive" | O'Neill, Oliva | Soto | 5:13 |
12. | "Mother and Son" | O'Neill | 0:41 | |
13. | "There Was a Life" | O'Neill, Oliva | Rob Evan | 9:35 |
Total length: | 63:10 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Length |
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1. | "Moonlight and Madness" (Instrumental) | Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, O'Neill, Paul Silverstein | 5:04 | |
2. | "Time Floats On" | O'Neill, Oliva | Soto | 3:33 |
3. | "Epiphany" | O'Neill, Oliva | Evan | 11:00 |
4. | "Bach Lullaby" (Instrumental) | Bach | 0:50 | |
5. | "Father, Son & Holy Ghost" | O'Neill, Chris Caffery | Jennifer Cella | 6:48 |
6. | "Remnants of a Lullaby" | O'Neill, Oliva | Cella | 3:10 |
7. | "The Safest Way into Tomorrow (Reprise)" | O'Neill, Oliva | Soto | 1:43 |
8. | "Embers" (Instrumental) | O'Neill, Ireland Wilde O'Neill | 3:53 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Length |
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9. | "Child of the Night" ( The Flower Duet) | Delibes, O'Neill | Alexa Goddard, Valentina Porter | 3:29 |
10. | "Believe" (Savatage cover) | O'Neill | Hockenberry | 6:12 |
11. | " Nutrocker" (Instrumental) | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Kim Fowley | 4:07 | |
12. | " Carmina Burana" | Carl Orff | 2:44 | |
13. | "Tracers" (Instrumental) | O'Neill, Pitrelli, Jane Mangini | 5:47 | |
Total length: | 58:20 |
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14. | "Requiem" (Live 2010) | 3:56 |
15. | "Toccata – Carpimus Noctem" (Live 2010) | 4:27 |
Total length: | 66:39 |
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