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PRAS Newsletter Winter 2019 A Warning To The Curious!!! I've just returned from Italy where I played a great little gig with my new semi-electric band and began recording my most challenging and ambitious album to date – ‘A Warning To The Curious – Extended Narrative Songs based on the ghost stories by M.R. James.’ I had written all the songs for the album and orchestrated it about four years ago around the time of ‘White Zombie’, but have only now had the opportunity to recreate that demo and flesh it out at Elfo Studios in Piacenza. It is not only a significant development musically for me, but it will also be one of my most important releases as it looks likely to be released on Manticore, the label founded by Emerson, Lake and Palmer back in the early 70s. It will also feature many special guests from classic Italian prog rock bands and cult British figures such as John Greaves from Henry Cow and possibly Fred Frith and Peter Hammill as well as an international soprano and ...