Name: The Call of Adventure
Channel: Augusto Chiarle
Description: License options are available for this song. A mix of ambient jazz and new age jazz, for a song that's the 1st part of the soundtrack of the story that's in our new CD. #2 Acoustic, #1 Acoustic Piano.

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A mix of ambient jazz and new age jazz, for a song that's the 1st part of the soundtrack of the story that's in our new CD. #2 Acoustic, #1 Acoustic Piano.

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The Wimshurst's Machine

An italian 8 members chillout orchestra who plays a mix of electronic and acoustic chillout music with ambient, jazz and new age influences.

"...It is easy to imagine yourself peacefully lounging in a scenic land while listening to these compositions, which use a wide array of acoustic instrumentation backed by ambient electronica." : we reached (#26 overall) on iTunes Italian online music store between january 6 and 13, 2005 (since january, official iTunes release date, never went out from the Top100), and had a song (, our 1st CD and , our 2nd one. Check out our link section for a direct link on those albums pages on iTunes! as "Best Instrumental Artist"! Thank you, everyone, for this result! :-)

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Piano

Charts

#17,285 today Peak #2

#1,456 in subgenre Peak #1

Author

Augusto Chiarle

Rights

2004 by The Wimshurst's Machine

Uploaded

December 29, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.9 MB • 128 kbps • 5:20

Story behind the song

When we started to work on our new album, this track came out as first and was completed as last. Lots of acoustic and electronic instruments, it was so full that it required lot of work and care. When we wrote this song, we thought to make an opening track for a suite of 8 tracks ("The Alchemist", call it "title track... ehm... title suite, since it gives the title to the entire album), so we needed also a long intro, who had to be the intro for this track but set the mood for the whole suite, and since the suite becomes dark and moody along with the story it tells, we needed a fresh start, like the sun before the storm it strikes. So we did try to put a bit of latin flavors and the "alchemic laboratory sounds" you may hear at the start and at the end of the song represents the alchemist's lab. The story will be published in the inlay card of the CD (if I can make a good translation in time) and maybe also published here in the "Lyrics" section of each of the songs of the suite.

THE ALCHEMIST modern suite in 8 parts 1-Intro: the call of adventure 2-Philosopher's stone 3-Intermezzo: captured 4-Prisoner 5-Meditations 6-Intermezzo: the torture machine 7-Torquemada 8-The Escape (Finale)

Lyrics

Highest charts position: # 2 (28,448 songs currently listed in Acoustic);
Highest charts position in subgenre: # 1                           (1,806 songs currently listed in Acoustic > Acoustic Piano).

This track is also used in the soundtrack of the movie "Polesine" (Italy, 2005).

THE ALCHEMIST
 modern suite in 8 parts
 1-Intro: the call of adventure
 2-Philosopher's stone
 3-Intermezzo: captured
 4-Prisoner
 5-Meditations
 6-Intermezzo: the torture machine
 7-Torquemada
 8-The Escape (Finale)
  


THE TELL TALE BEHIND THE TRACK 
(Italiano in coda all'inglese)
THE ALCHEMIST
original story written by Duilio Chiarle
translation by Fabrizio B. Maracich

I) - INTRO: THE CALL OF ADVENTURE
Alchemy is the forerunner of modern chemistry, this is certain, but not only that. Alchemy is science and more, is research in a spiritual dimension. Sometimes it enters the realms of magic. To be an alchemist a wide range of knowledge was required: theology, ancient tomes and exotic languages, such as Arabian, Greek, Latin and Hebraic.
The knowledge of so many things and so many strange languages was quite often considered a sign of sorcery. Almost every time the word went off about a sorcerer the religious authorities sought after the suspected wizard, pursue him or her because they didn’t understand their purpose and methods. Alchemy was a dangerous science, for the distinction between science and sorcery were not very clear as in the third millennium. Science, as well as sorcery was considered dangerous businesses. To be an alchemist was a great adventure, but a risky one.
The man we are talking about was one of them…
The legend says that a mysterious alchemist moved to Spain in a time in which the conquer was not yet completed. In these times the country was permeated by different cultures, with an intellectual symbiosis among the academic community.
Ferdinando De Aragona and Isabela De Castilla made a decision to take care of the people instead of having a intellectual elite: elites, they know, were prone to made their government unstable.
A Master Inquisitor of Spain Territories was then named shortly afterward: he was their Father Confessor Tomàs de Torquemada, Prior of the Santa Cruz monastery. They assigned to him the task to give the Spain one people, one language and one religion.. The Pope himself granted to Tomàs the title of Grand Inquisitor, a role that he fulfilled with great fervor. History witnesses the results of his work. Before the departure of Columbus to discover the New World he reached is aim. In less than 20 years Spain has been completely changed.
Nobody can say where the alchemist come from, or who he was. Somebody said he came from Turin, others said, erroneously, that he was Nostradamus.
Unfortunately the traces found in the documents written during the Holy Inquisition reveals only a report of an interrogation, but then the name a fate of the alchemist are omitted, and lost.
But we know the legend and something can be added to the story.
And when history does not allow us to go further, the legend, the voice of the people coming from the past centuries, the word that passes from father to son will help us to clear the mist that the time has put on the event.
But a veil of uncertainty remains, and we can’t remove it, nor we want to do that. We can only bring you along, driving you to taste the flavor of his great adventure: the alchemist’ adventure.
Imagine his face, in the pale light of a candle, surrounded by boiling chemicals in strange, dark room…

 L'ALCHIMISTA  
 storia originale di Duilio Chiarle

I) - IL FASCINO DELL’AVVENTURA L’alchimia è anche l’antenato della chimica moderna. Anche. Ma non soltanto. Alchimia non è solo scienza. E’ anche ricerca di una dimensione spirituale; a tratti confina con la magia. Essere alchimista