Cosulich Departures, by Blue Yates

Cosulich Departures

by Blue Yates

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1.	Augustus 03:16	buy track
2.	Conte Grande 01:29	buy track
3.	Remo 01:08	buy track
4.	Amazzonia 03:52	buy track
5.	Oceania 03:04	buy track
6.	Conte di Savoia 01:05	buy track
7.	Virgilio 02:22	buy track
8.	Saturnia 01:23	buy track
9.	Vulcania 02:23	buy track
10.	Neptunia 02:51	buy track
11.	Esquilino 00:24	buy track
12.	Orazio 00:53	buy track

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When the first keel plates were laid down in the Italian region of Friuli, at the Monfalcone dock, yard number one hundred and sixty, on the 30th May 1925, it would not have been unlikely that within her vast steel framework, much of the intrigue, pleasure, pain and suffering of life, birth and death might take place. The Saturnia was made, together with her sister ship, Vulcania, as a passenger ship operating for the Cosulich shipping company out of Trieste from where she first sailed at the end of December that same year.

The ship, with a complement of passengers and crew that totaled 2,167 was seen on its way to Buenos Aires and Montevideo by the 22 year old Princess Giovanna, who would later become Tsaritsa of Bulgaria. The soon to be Tsaritsa did not travel on that occasion, but her dress and style was duly noted by a number of shorthand scribblers who would describe with the gentle flow of their pens her long elegant dress, her exquisitely hand-made shoes and her fur coat and hat, for it is cold in Trieste in December. Thus a readership in Boston and London, among countless other places, would be able to visualise the moment, to take in the scene on the crescent harbour that day, as the rugged distant hills merged with the huge vessel disappearing over the Adriatic horizon.

The ship's interior design had been the result of two opposing sets of ideas. The aversity of the investors, as is so often the case, to support the avant-garde school of design that was prominent in the Trieste of the mid-1920s, had led to something that appeared to most breathtakingly Baroque, but to others, and there were far fewer of these, a pointless retrospective reassertion of a fin-de-siecle opulence that had never been the Friulian lot.

The ballroom, fitted with Yorkshire assiduity, was the work of Marsh, Jones and Cross of Leeds, an assiduity felt more by many, than admired the Parthenon frieze in the dining room, or felt the likelihood that its demeanor might give way to a seasonal Saturnalian excess and replace the staid ordinariness of its patrons. And it was a presence in the first class bar on that December afternoon that led to the sequence of events that form the basis of this narrative.

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released May 1, 2020

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Blue Yates Burton Upon Trent, UK

Blue Yates has performed all over Europe, accompanied BBC World Music Award nominee Yasmin Levy and appeared at the Bankside Festival in London. He has taken part in Ted Riederer's Never Records project and currently performs across the Midlands. He has recently been featured in Classical Guitar Magazine. Website photography by Miles Dosher. ... more

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