Michael Ernst – Excalibur, 2004

1 The King Of Swords
2 Excalibur
3 Magic
4 A Long, Long Time Ago
5 Back Again
6 Stop
7 On The Run
8 Dreams Can Come True (Now It’s Up To You)
9 Goodbye
10 People Shall Be Free
11 Time To Change
12 Part Of Me, Part Of You
13 Every Dream Will Have It’s Day

Believe it or not, but the idea for this project (concept album) already came to the mind of singer and composer Michael Ernst in 1983! He wanted to pack a certain number of songs he had written up to then into a concept dealing with the story of the sword Excalibur, King Arthur and Merlin, the magician. Back then it was meant as a showcase for Ernst as a talented artist, but things turned out differently and it would take much longer for Michael to realize his dream. To cut a long story short, there’s a period of no less than 16 years between the recording of the first demos at a small recording studio in Vienna at the beginning of 1984 and the landing of the finished disc on the desk of Point Music in August 2002.
As a matter of fact, this “Excalibur” is a brilliantly produced concept album, full of wonderful (yet poppy) compositions, sung by Michael Ernst and Chris Thompson, who is one of the best vocalists of all times.