Kingfisher

Gygafo's early-'70s album only made it to the acetate stage at the time, though it was eventually resuscitated for CD release in the early '90s. Though it's competent British progressive rock, and adequately recorded, there's nothing about the band that demanded a wide audience or a place of its own in the art rock pantheon. It's fair prog rock with some folk and hard rock influences, including some sinuous ebb-and-flow guitar lines, well worked-out vocal harmonies, haunting melodic figures, and classically flavored keyboard passages. The songwriting is neither terrible nor noteworthy, and in the fashion of the time, the tracks can meander on a bit too long, though it's not grossly self-indulgent. The CD finishes with a couple of tracks recorded in 1974, at a later date than the rest of the material.

Prix : Hugo - meilleur roman 2023.
De son couvent, la jeune et timide Marra, troisième héritière d'un petit royaume convoité, voit ses deux soeurs se marier l'une après l'autre avec le prince sadique Vorling. Pour échapper à ce sort funeste, qui la menace également après la mort mystérieuse de l'ainée, elle recrute des alliés pour tuer le prince : une sorcière, un chevalier en disgrâce et une fée marraine. …