Fourth release for the Dutch neo-classical combo, FIRE AND GLASS: A NORWOOD TRAGEDY contains four new tracks of their distinctive classical spoken word (to tell the truth, one out of four tracks is an instrumental one. It's titled "Embers" and it's a closing melancholic but still epic track which sees cellos and other strings painting the final brushes of the scenario). The E.P. is dedicated to the memory of the Crystal Palace. Wikipedia can give us further informations about this building: "The Crystal Palace was a wrought iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in the Palace's 990,000 square feet of exhibition space to display examples of the latest technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. After the exhibition, the building was moved to a new park in a high, healthy and wealthy area of London called Sydenham Hill, an area not much changed today from the well-heeled suburb full of large Victorian villas that it was during its Victorian heyday. The Crystal Palace was enlarged and stood from 1854 until 1936, when it was destroyed by fire". The tracks and lyrics make you feel the same emotions of the people who lived that building as a sign of splendor of an age but are also able to underline the frailty of human dreams by creating an involving track titled "Drowing in showers of melting glass" where the piano plays a touching score giving power to the lyrics that tells of the fire. This is a good chapter that sees H.E.R.R. at their top. If you like their previous album this is a must have, because in my opinion you'll love FIRE AND GLASS. Next step... "Twelve Caesars".