Second Sailing
Second iCE KiNG album, released as Compact Disc in 2008

All epics are being performed still, in a variety of ways







I. Land of Light
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "The Strange Country" by Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
(Later recording on TWiCE KiNG)

II. Wowayn
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (traditional)
(Also on the bootleg compilation album Celtic Dreams Vol. 1, illegally released by so-called Quickstar Productions [2010]!)

III. The Quest for the Queen
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Winter: a Dirge" by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Verdunum:
Keys composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
(Verdunum Decennium on TWiCE KiNG)

IV. Verdunum I - The Empire
V. Verdunum II - The Treaty
VI. Verdunum III - The Battle

VII. Heart in the Highlands
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "My Heart's in the Highlands" by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

VIII. Shadow Shield
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "Tattered Serenade: Beggar to Shadow" by Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

IX. Evensong
Guitar and vocals composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
Verses included from "To the Muse" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) and from Chief Aupumut (18th century)
(Alternate version on Gallus X as Royaume Glacé)

X. Evensong - Pars Altera
Guitars composed by Bas L.G. Verdin
(Evensong - Pars Altera Bis on Splendid Iceolation)



Booklet painting: "Dolbadarn Castle" (Gwynedd, Wales) by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

Simultaneous projections of paintings, live or online, respectively:
I. "The Voyage of Life - Youth" by Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
III. "Sir Galahad - The Quest for the Holy Grail" by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)



"The title of this second solo album as iCE KiNG, is my free translation of the ancient Greek Deuteros Plous. It is in origin a nautical term for a voyage when the wind is of no use, and one has to row on his own the difficult and the long way. Conceptually, it was considered a description of philosophy itself by Plato. I would add that anyone being dedicated to seeking beauty, justice and truth, obviously transcending most of common life, finds himself quite desolate and impeded - however inspired..."