CLASSICA, Novembre's third, and probably most important album is gonna be re-released this 27th of October...
Originally released in late 1999, it's the first Novembre album released for an international label (Germany's Century Media), which soared the band's status to the Italian Masters of Sorrow, now known everywhere in the world.
Entirely recorded at the band's Outersound Studios in Rome, it's been mixed at famous producer and KING DIAMOND guitar axe, ANDY LAROQUE's LOS ANGERED studios, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The magnificence given by the mix-desk wizard's hand and the blue-steel power of the ten tracks CLASSICA was made of, resulted in a strong promotional effort, which later got the band into an extensive European tour with Metal giants MOONSPELL and KREATOR.
The split between the band and the label a few years later is known history and after all this time fans hunger for this outstanding album has grown only equally to its unavailability in the stores.
That's why NOVEMBRE's new home, UK's Peaceville Records, decided to buy its rights and to re-release it.
August 2008; the band locked themselves up in Outersound Studios once again, to fill in CLASSICA's too short mix holes. Not a remix indeed, but a post-production refinement work.
And last but not least, the mastering CLASSICA deserved has at last been done at
Europe's best recording studios, Helsinki's FINNVOX.
Well, just as in every respectable re-release, there's bonus stuff;
We unearthed a previously unreleased track named
"COLOUR OF AN EYE", which we could finally mix properly.
One of those songs we'll forever ask ourselves why it was cut off the album!!!
And as if it was not enough, we added demo-versions of the tracks "TALES FROM A WINTER TO COME" and "WINTER 1941"
Enjoy..
CLASSICA - Track List
01. Cold Blue Steel
02. Tales from a Winter to Come
03. Nostalgiaplatz
04. My Starving Bambina
05. Love Story
06. L'Epoque Noire
07. Onirica East
08. Foto Blu Infinito
09. Winter 1941
10. Outro - Spirit of the Forest
Bonus tracks:
11. Colour Of An Eye
12. Tales from a Winter to Come (demo version)
13. Winter 1941 (demo version)