Fate Of a Dreamer (2001)

When Astrid had agreed to work along with Arjen's new 'ambeon' project, he send her all kinds of current work in progress mixes. Each time he finished something he sent them over to Astrid. Originally it was meant that Astrid wrote some lyrics and singingpaterns on those 'old' Ayreon songs which Arjen completely revamped. In the end most songs are completely unrecogizable. These songs would originally form the new album along with some guest performers. But when Arjen heared Astrid's voice he promptly got the idea that she would simply sing along with some numbers which wouldn't been written by Astrid. But as the work progressed very smoothly it changed and Astrid did all the lyrics and melodies herself. After all it all was quite a challenge but Astrid is proud of herself and satisfied with the endresult.



Astrid van der Veen
Vocals and backing vocals

Arjen Lucassen
Acoustic and electric guitars, analog keyboards, samples and weird noises

Stephen Aestregt
Acoustics and electronic drums and percussion

Walter Latupeirissa
Bass- and fretless bass guitar

John McManus
Low Flute and Uillean Pipes on 1,3 and 7

Pat McManus
Fiddle on 3 and 7

Erik Norlander
Additional synths on 8 and 9, voice of news reporter on 9

Lana Lane Reversed backing vocals on 3 and 9

1 Estranged
2 Ashes
3 High
4 Cold Metal
5 Fate
6 Sick Ceremony
7 A Lost Message
8 Surreal
9 Sweet Little Brother
10 Dreamer