Ebonshire - Volume 1

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Ebonshire - Volume 1
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ReleasedDecember 7, 2013
Genre Neoclassical dark wave, Christmas music
Label Monolith Graphics
Producer Joseph Vargo
Nox Arcana chronology
Legion of Shadows
(2013)
Ebonshire - Volume 1
(2013)
Ebonshire 2
(2014)

Ebonshire - Volume 1 is the 20th album released by Nox Arcana. It is the first in a series of winter holiday EPs inspired by Nox Arcana's holiday music trilogy: Winter's Knight (2005), Winter's Eve (2009), and Winter's Majesty (2012), which are each set in a fantasy realm called Ebonshire.

Contents

Composer Joseph Vargo explained that each year a new volume of songs is to be added to the Ebonshire series for the winter holiday season. [1] [2]

Track listing

  1. Shades of the Past — 2:39
  2. Homeward Bound — 2:56
  3. Kindred Spirits — 2:44

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References

  1. "Nox Arcana announcement" . Retrieved 2013-12-15.
  2. "New Releases by Nox Arcana". Blaue Rosen. Retrieved 30 November 2015.