Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Ayreon

AyReOn.

Familiar with "rock operas" ('Tommy', The Who), thematic musical projects (Alan Parsons Project / 'Tubular Bells', Mike Oldfield / 'Sgt. Pepper's', The Beatles / albums from Pink Floyd: Animals, Ummagumma, The Wall) and you like music from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Yes or EmersonLake&Palmer?

In that case I would like to draw your attention to Arjen Lucassen, a Dutch singer, songwriter, composer, multi instrumentalist and record producer. 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Everything_%28album%29

Styles: heavy metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, folk, classical, electronica 
Projects: Ayreon, Ambeon, Star One, Guilt Machine, Stream of Passion


The track title 'Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin'  from the album 'Lost in the New Real' reflects that he's influenced by the holy trinity: Beatles, Floyd, Zeppelin (and Deep Purple?)



Discography:

1994 - Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy
1996 - Strange Hobby
2012 - Lost in the New Real*

Ambeon: 
2000 - Fate of a Dreamer

Guilt Machine: 
2009 - On this Perfect Day

Stream of Passion: 
2005 - Embrace the Storm
2006 - Live in the Real World

Star One:
2002 - Space Metal
           Victims of the Modern Age
2003 - Live on Earth:

Ayreon:
1995 - The Final Experiment
1996 - Actual Fantasy
1998 - Into the Electric Castle
2000 - Ayreonauts Only
2000 - The Universal Migrator 
          part 1: The Dream Sequencer, part 2:Flight of the Migrator
2004 - The Human Equation 
2008 - Timeline 
2008 - 01011001
2013 - The Theory of Everything*
          phase 1: Singularity, 2: Symmetry, 3: Entanglement, 4: Unificaton


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