ANOTHER MASTERPIECE! Ayreon - Valley of the Queens REACTION
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Floor you know. Anneke van Giersbergen is a very respected metal singer, although she is much more than that. Devin Townsend calls her the "Tinkerbell of Metal" for her ability to sprinkle magic gold dust over songs as well as her radiant smile. Marcela Bovio IS Mexican, although ever since she was invited by Arjen for one of his projects she has been living in the Netherlands. She is an absolute vocal gem as well as an established violinist and arranger. This song was originally written by Arjen for Anneke for the Album electric Castle. For this live performance he asked Marcela to rearrange it for these three voices.
I know her from her old Band : The Gathering
@@michaelbuttner4262 I didn't mention that because another comment already said it, nor her being an inspiration to floor - as well as others - for the same reason 🙂
great information, thanks
Every live Ayreon vid that gets released, I learn to "worship" Marcela more and more. Rick Wakeman once described Jon Anderson as having a voice that can 'cut through' anything. You could put down a kitchen sink on tape and Jon will somehow find a melody and tone that will sit on top of it.
Marcela is the opposite. Yes, she's an incredible lead on her own right, but in these Ayreon situations, she has the ability to change her tone, change her timber, and put the support behind whomever has the lead, whether it's Floor's open airs, Anneke's front-loading, Damien's and Micheal Mill's stratospheres - she'll find the timber to harmonize with them without any distracting contrasts in tone.
The only thing wrong with this song is that it's too short
Btw: Marcela Bovio has a version on her own channel, recorded during a patreon live from her living room.
Yep, need 10 more versus.
I concur
As a nurse in palliative oncology care I like your dwelling on existential items, the ripples you leave in other peoples memories. It is a beautiful phenomenon I often witness between people that are ill and the ones close to their heart, even professional caregivers! ♥️😉
thank you for sharing this! what wonderful insight from someone so close to the matter. Thank you also for your service. it is a noble one.
@@rosalieelliottofficial And as for the Queen, though they've stolen all her dreams, I hear a kind of wisdom, like she's come to terms with (her) history, it is what it is. Or like she did what she could. And that has a beauty in itself. Cheers, all the best to you, love your reactions and explorations!
That is well said!! What a beautiful way to transition and be at peace. Thank you for the kind words also :)
Anneke's voice is magical. She's also the singer that made Floor realise female metal vocalist was something that she could be.
Also even though both Anneke and Floor have amazing voices they are very different but Marcella blends perfectly with both of them, adjusting her voice after who she is harmonizing with
I feel very privileged that I'm able to go to all Ayreon's concerts. You can hear the crowd. It was a magical moment where the crowd pay their respect to these three ladies!
What a lot of people seem to miss is what Marcella Bovio is doing in this performance and that is that she provides most of the harmony part (except for a few instances where they do 3 part harmony like in the end) and that she is adjusting the colour of her voice ever so slightly to match it with the one she singing with.
Marcela is a great singer ♥
Yes, and that's no doubt why Arjen uses her for backing vocals on a lot of his stuff. Her voice is versatile enough to be able to match tone and vibrato so well with other singers, no matter who they are. That feels quite a rare talent.
Rest assured we do not miss this Chris
@@rosswhite5975 Not only as a backing vocalist, at the time of the "Stream of Passion" project, for example, Marcela was the lead singer, I saw some videos on You Tube of a 2006. The group members at time: Arjen (vocals and electric guitar), Marcela (lead singer and violin), Lori Linstruth (Arjen's girl friend/wife - electric guitar), Diana Bovio (Marcela sister - background vocals), Johan Van Stratum (Marcela's former husband - bass guitar), Alejandro Millan (keyboards) and Davy Mickers (drums). Here a couple of links if someone is interested :
ruclips.net/video/xquiPugo2fA/видео.html (Out in the Real World live)
ruclips.net/video/EJgthkfxVjc/видео.html (Valley of the Queens live)
Marcela, in my opinion, is an underrated singer and musician.
@@fabrizio_prina yes, of course. I know Stream Of Passion well. My own band supported them a few years back on one of their final shows. They were an excellent band. Marcela seemed very nice and with no ego.
On stage this song:
Ferry Duijsens (Dear Mother, VUUR) - guitar
Sir - Joost van den Broek (Star One, , Supersonic Revolution, ex-After Forever) - keyboards
Jeroen Goossens (Flairck, Pater Moeskroen) - flutes, woodwinds
Maaike Peterse (Kingfisher Sky) - cello
Floor Jansen (Star one, Nightwish, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp)
Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gentle Storm, VUUR, ex-The Gathering)
Marcela Bovio (Star One, MaYaN, VUUR, ex-Stream of Passion)
This is from the opera "Into the Electric Castle". In a post-apocalyptic timeframe, only the founders of humanity, the immortal Forever, still exist. To achieve their primordial goal, tapping human emotions they can no longer create themselves, the Forever have re-embodied eight random characters from the history of mankind. They are sent into a contest of survival. Four succeed, four will fail. Anneke plays the part of the Egyptian, who is utterly disappointed that the Egyptian god Ra is not coming to reality and to welcome her. So she fails to survive and chooses oblivion. In the 2003 Star One band the 19 y/o Floor sang this song, together with her sis Irene. So it was fun to have Floor in this song, for she has few parts to sing in the Castle. The initial song of the opera is called Isis and Osiris, which introduces the first five characters: The Highlander, the Indian, the Knight, the Roman and the Egyptian. Played by Fish, Simone Simons, Damian Wilson, Edwin Balogh and Anneke van Giersbergen. All five characters have their own melodies in a single musical frame. Ingenious, don't you agree?
In the second song, Amazing Flight, the barbarian and the hippie join the fray, played by John Jaycee Cuijpers and Arjen Lucassen himself. Everyone cheers as he hits the stage.
In The Tunnel of Light the Highlander loses his ways. In The Garden of Emotions the Egyptian is disappointed and she will quit the train in this song we just heard. The demise of the Indian is also spectacular in the song Cosmic Fusion. She (Simone) becomes too enamoured with sun-like spirits, and despite warnings those spirits suddenly come to life and sing in growls. These spirits are played by Simone's Epica band mates! Simone's character dies with a bloodcurdling wail.
Finally, in the Two Doors we witness the (wrong) choice of the Barbarian, and his fate is sealed too.
The Narrator is John deLancie, a veteran from Star trek.
All these roles were played in the 2019 live registration (all songs on YT). In earlier versions, and on the CD we find different players/singers.
Great reaction Rosalie! Three fantastic vocalists and a beautiful composition all around.
Gorgeous vocals. They definitely sound great together.
Liitle backstory.. From the Into the Electric Castle album. On this album the Forever have brought 8 humans to a non-time place to put them through tests and solve puzzles in order for the Forever to study their emotions. The Forever (the original 10 humans from Planet Y in the Day that the World Breaks Down) have evolved to the point that they no longer feel emotions and want to study the humans to try and regain their emotional abilities. In the previous song, The Garden of Emotions, the Egyptian is overcome by her emotions of dread that Amon Ra is coming to seal her fate. In this song the Egyptian has lost her will to live after her experiences in The Garden of Emotions. Her dreams have been stolen and she no longer wants to participate in the Forever's games. Her soul yearns for the Valley of the Queens where she can rest for eternity and so she gives up her life.
i always found the the best way to hear what anneke can do is in listening to "waking hour" from the gathering's 25 yr anniversary concert :)
Anneke is a singer that reactors need to give more watching love to. Below are 2 of my favorite live performances of hers.
The Gathering - Waking Hour (TG25: Live at Doornroosje - unofficial video) ruclips.net/video/pUKBV8M_XXE/видео.html
Vuur - Days Go By - London [Live at Masters of Rock 2017] ruclips.net/video/5sZiL2usPLc/видео.html
Floor saw Anneke perform with her band 'the Gathering' the song 'Strange machines' and that convinced her that she could be a prog/metal lead singer... ruclips.net/video/1HUMwinV2AQ/видео.html
wonderful review / reaction . Thank you .
Thanks for this great reaction.
One thing not to forget: This song is from a themed album and is more related to the story of the album than as just a stand alone.
The original song was performed by Anneke alone as she had the part of the egyptian on the album. She rearranged this song with Arjen and Joost van den Brook (the keyboard guy, also known als "LUL" ) for the live performance.
Another awesome performance of Anneke with another artist is this one with Within Temptation ruclips.net/video/ScjEJRIZGvg/видео.html goosebumps guaranteed.
...and we should not say what LUL means 🤣🤣🤣
Joost van den Broek. Not Van den Brook.
He is truly the best LUL out there, no competition.
Thumbs up , Thank you . Greetings from nwAse Sweden
Yay, another ayreon react video :)
Anneke posted two weeks ago, that she will be touring with Floor on Floors tour in Germany, Switzerland and Austria this year. They will start on May, 7 in Oberhausen.
His flute is under his arm, he's playing a whistle I think in D
Hi Rosalie, great reaction thanks. On this stage are three amazing and beautiful singers and they are all powerful as well checkout Marcella Bovio. Marcella lived in the Netherlands for almost 20 years or so and worked with Mayan. But you said you loved harmonizing and in this field of harmonized singing there’s only one group from the Netherlands also and is named OG3NE. I think you found out already, collaborations are quit normal in Europe.
The guitarist is Ferry Duijsens. Maaike Peterse on cello, and Joost van den Broek on keyboards are the other instrumentalists in this.
The song is from Ayreon's 3rd album, Into the Electric Castle from 1998.
I love them all and Floor has my ❤.💯
I love the way you react to Ayreon and his “universe”.
The next ones you should react to: Everybody dies, age of shadows and the eye of ra. And as the druids turn to stone. I am sure you’ll love those. I cant wait. Keep it up!
Wonderful reaction/review with a 🌹from northern Germany
Who would have thought your metal quest would lead you here, right? ••• Thanks! PEACE!!!
Beautiful song great performers Thankyou for sharing your reaction to this one
“The elegance”.
Marcella's part is easily overlooked! But it is absolutely necessary and absolutely brilliant 😊. These ladies each having their own wonderful careers give their best for each other to achieve a gift like this to us ❤
If you like harmoniess check out the live performance of 'Somewhere' by Within Temptation featuring Anneke van Giersbergen. It is a beatiful ballad duet between Sharon den Adel of WT and Anneke van Giersbergen. It is captionned 'The best duet ever' and for very good reason! Within Temptation is a pioneer of symphonic metal and one of the biggest and most important bands that has ever been in the genre. They are Dutch and started in 1996 (the same year as Nigthwish) but they were way more 'symphonic metal' already from the start than a band like Nightwish at that time. One of the earliest and true pioneering bands of symphionic metal as we know it today!!! And to have them performing this beutiful balld with Anneke (the godmother and inspiration for so many female metal singers and female metal fronted bands in The Netherlands and beyond) is just beautiful.
Also check out 'Travel' live at TG 25. It was the 25th anniversairy concert for The Gathering. So you can see what Anneke sings like in her own band singing her own melodies and lyrics. Anneke and the band are just mesmerizing.
@@hansolo2121 that’s a must imo
Rosalie, I think "Ayreon" is the English phonetics for Arjen when you make that Dutch J into a Y and use a continental R which is a bit like "air".
Well, Arjen himself has said that that is a common misconception, so I’m sorry but you are wrong. When Arjen was looking for a name for his main character in his first rock opera he wanted a name that sounded both futuristic and medieval at the same time. So he came up with Ayreon. He has explained this several times and mentioned that it has nothing to do with his own name.
@@treintje1001 Yep, I was wrong.
Best I can find in English phonetics from Arjen himself is Are-yin; however, I believe a lot of his contributors do call him Are-jen which raises a smile apparently.
I'm a sucker for harmonies too. This hits the spot in so many ways.
For me the best album of all time is Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle. I highly recommend to give it a listen. Great concept album, amazing songs with top of the line vocalists. Arjen really hit a home run with that one 👌
Rosalie, the Cello is played by Maike Petterse (not sure I spelled that right), she was in "The Day that the World Breaks Down", too.
Harmonies ey, try Aquatic Race ( 8 voice harmony,,,,from the ppl u saw at The day the world breaks down)
Allways one of my fvorites
Marcela Bolivia has her own band Stream of Passion with Arjen Lucassen and she has Mayan also
Anneke is certainly worth a trip down the rabbit hole. Be it either during her time with The Gathering, Vuur, her solo performances or the work she did with Devin Townsend.
Or with Amorphis... Amongst Stars
Great video Rosalie, you captured the essence of Arjen talent. He is amazing, the performers are too. Keep going!
Anneke is a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down :D
Hi Rosalie, I do appreciate your expanding on the content of queens losing their realm, their command, their millennium. Of course this is a metaphore for the connection and the respect and the love we all lose when dying.
Tolkien says it beautifully in 'The Lord of the Rings' when he describes the sorrow of the Elves, who know their time is over.
And from Rammstein we learn, in 'Zeit' (see the video), how harsh death is.
At times difficult to watch, but grand.
Very well said. Thank you for your comment :)
If you are looking for perfection in musical art, this is the choice. A delicate and exquisite melody with a beautiful poetry, can only be interpreted by this class of singers. The best representatives of Symphonic Metal, in this song they keep their swords and modulate their power to deliver this piece of art to us.
Floor's strength, Anneke's beauty, but Marcela is the harmony that unites them, making an almost otherworldly trinity.
Marcela accompaning the two different voices is awesome!
I really really loved your comments on this song, you commenting on the theme of the lyrics was so nice to watch.
The Gathering - Travel. TG25, Doornroosje (it was a special occasion with all the previous and recent singers.) Anneke van Giersbergen performs her song written about Mozart she admires ❤
Anne van giersbergen sounds perfect in harmony with Sharon from Within temptation. (another -sorry lol - Dutch band)
Within Temptation feat. Anneke Van Giersbergen - Somewhere
Anneke was also brilliant in Beste Zangers. If you have the time watch Jest Oldu (A Turkish song). She sang it for Karsu (a brilliant Dutch/Turkish singer). And she even sang a little bit in Turkish. She is such a fun lady, met her a trillion years ago.
As always great reaction and breakdown of this one to me this is the best of the best singing together to make something very beautiful it is a piece of art for me I like it alot and all of these artists are awesome in thier own right but together it is a master class of music always your ride or die forever Eyyyy Oooo
This is a beautiful piece of music, I love to turn it up loud.
Hello Rosalie, I'm writing from the great state of Tennessee. I was fortunate enough to get tickets to Arjen's concert in September in Tilburg. Come meet us in Tilburg and enjoy the weekend with us in Areyon Land.
More Ayreon please. Love your reaction
We all know who the queens are here.
Hey, there's Marvin, the planet-head android, bobbing along. Maybe it's his brother, Marvin has cosmic-scale headaches.
Some corrections regarding Anneke's history.
Anna Maria van Giersbergen became known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Dutch progressive/alternative rock band The Gathering, between 1995 and 2007 (not symphonic).
The Gathering started with two women before Anneke and was a band that mixed death and doom metal.
In 1998 guitarist Jelmer Wiersma leaves the band, perhaps because the band's fifth album, How to Measure a Planet?, abandons Doom Metal and becomes lighter, atmospheric and melodic.
It came to be called Trip Rock. The band had elements of progressive rock and alternative rock. -------> It was never symphonic.
The Sirens formed in June 2014, a project featuring vocalists Liv Kristine (ex-Theatre of Tragedy) and Kari Rueslatten (ex-The 3rd and the Mortal). The project constituted the meeting of the three pioneers of the Female Fronted style ------- > (it is not symphonic).
Including opening a show for the Finnish band Nightwish, on August 29, 2015. Interestingly, Tiuomas (Nightwish) was mainly inspired by the three bands represented by the three vocalists (Tuomas Holopainen): "At that time, The Third and the Mortal, Theater of Tragedy and The Gathering were an inspiration to write my own material". ------> Nightwish didn't start out as symphonic metal, it was power metal with folk elements.
Theater of Tragedy is from Norway and invented the Beauty and the Beast style (one man one woman, duet). The band was death + doom + gothic and went through an industrial phase. Everything mixed with metal. ------> Again... it was never symphonic.
The 3rd and the Mortal (The Third and the Mortal) is a Norwegian experimental doom metal band formed in 1992.
The group merged in its sound several musical genres over the years, such as progressive rock, jazz, ambient music, folk and electronic (latest works). Oh! Before I forget, it was never symphonic.
I lost my beloved Majesty in December and entombed her in stone by a tiny channel she hunted for mice in. The circumstances of her death did involve lies and betrayal by someone wrongly trusted. It will hurt forever like every such brutality.
There was only one comfort:
I played this and could not stop playing it over and over. And over. It is a great comfort to all who see cats as that bridge to the other world and as household rulers teaching us curiosity, calm, protecting from raiders and true love of sentients unlike ourselves. Egypt is to me the greatest civilization yet. The ancients knew this.
Sleep well by your little Valley tiny panther.
To me this will be your song forever.
Hi Rosalie,another version of this song with Marcella and her younger sister and Arjen on lead.Magical.ruclips.net/video/EJgthkfxVjc/видео.html
I want this to be my funeral farewell song.❤
This has been one different reaction, thank you for all the thoughts and interpretation, a bit fast for non-natives but i think i did take away some parts of it that ill think about more often now.
So gorgeous
Great reaction to a great song
Rosalie I recommend you to listen The Gathering with Annecke especially travel it is absolutely amazing 😊
On the Album 'Into the electric Castle', Anneke Van Giersbergen plays the part of the Egyptian. On this song she sings the three parts which are then mixed together.
Well - for Egyptians death is actually was not the end but actually the start. And this is what makes this even more astonishing. It is not 'just' music it even fits perfectly into the cultural background. There is a problem though - this is true for queens but not necessarilly for peasants. By the way the picture you showed was the death temple of Hatshepsut. She was a queen but then became a Pharao and transformed herself to be male just because...
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The rose, it is often used in this context I feel (and that's very suitable), from a Japanese song with a title meaning "The Rose Perishes Beautifully" through The Rose to a German song with the title "Eine Rose Für Den Abschied" (A Rose for the fareweell/Goodbye if I'm not mistaken) which has this line, " Seit dem Tag, als die schwarze Rose ihre letztes Blatt verlor", since the day the black rose lost its last leaf, something I connected to the singer, who passed away way too soon, as in she was the black rose that lost her last leaf/petal...
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Hatshepsut, the only female to recieve a kings burial, has a farao's cartouche, and a dedicated temple. Oh well.
2 answers on that: (I came across Arjen through Floor. Then found so many others.) This "whish to die" is common to me, since my grandma passed away in 1981. She had become bedridden some 2 years before. She went in peace. She just stopped eating.
Starving herself to death. By her own will.
It was heartbreaking! I was only 21. Many years later, I found that (at least in the US) has been a way of elders, to leave us.
Native americans. To search for a cave. And guided by beloved ones: die in peace. Leaving our physical world.
I'm atheist. When I serviced in the german Bundeswehr, we had lessons also in religion. To get to hear: "you are not allowed to take your own life!" Most of disagrred. Allow me to make this joke: we gave him hell on that point.
(It was a very serious discussion! About beeing wounded. Having lost extremities, beeing blind. Things like that. We where soldiers.
Not a funny conversation. Not at all.)
A more light-hearted answer to come. Sorry.
Hope you check out the live version of Chinchilla's "Fingers"
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I recommend other songs by Ayreon or Anneke (along with The Gathering)
Rosalie, if you are a sucker for harmony, please search for Ogene(Og3ne) any song, but taken from the liveshow” Beste Zangers”(Best Singers) the song Sing, or them performing Clown.
Info: They are 3 sisters from the Netherlands, began singing at a young age, they won eurovision kids, their singing in sync is realy scary, never edited, sisters have that i guess. I hope to see a reaction soon, love
Sander
Umsteigen am Hamburger Hauptbahnhof. Nach der Arbeit. Und der Bahnsteig füllte sich immer mehr mit eher dunkel gekleideten, jüngeren Menschen. Es wurde Englisch gesprochen und auch Spanisch. Und ein (vorher Spanisch sprechender) junger Mann fragte mich: "How can we get to Itzehoe?" W:O:A (Wacken open air) was around the corner!
"Just follow me" hab' ich gesagt. Ich war auf dem Weg nach Pinneberg. "Die halbe Miete." Eine halbe Stunde in der S-Bahn.
Ich habe gefragt: "Und ihr seid ganz aus Spanien gekommen?" "Nein! Ich und der Typ da drüben (zeigt auf einen Freund) sind aus Mexiko. Die anderen 3 sind aus Honduras."
"Mexiko? Ich kenne eine Sängerin aus Mexiko! Marcela Bovio. Ich hab' eine CD von ihrer Band Elfonia."
"Die kommt aus einer Nachbar-Provinz. Die ist bei uns sehr bekannt!"
"Kennst Du system of a down?" "Ja." "Kennst Du die letzten 2 Alben?"....
Wir haben über Musik gesprochen, als würden die jungen Kerle aus Halstenbek kommen. (Ein Dorf in meiner Nähe.)
Das werde ich niemals vergessen. Musik verbindet.
I think you might want to react to The Gathering-Travel TG25, Anneke at her best:). It's about Mozart.
08:58 yup, right there with ya .. 😧😧
Regarding the lyrics, I've always found the expression there's beauty in darkness can hold much truth, and as for life, isn't the fact that it's finite what makes it so precious? Just my thoughts :) As for the song, I love this one so much! Someone in the comments said the only fault is it's too short, and I agree :)
well said! :)
Roses rpwl
Delilah - Rak sessions or live from Koko London
Floor will open for Metallica here in The Netherlands
Hi Rosalie, horch dr amol folgendes o: "misplaced among the angels" von Avantasia. Scheane Griaß
I agree, misplace among the angels is marvellous ballade, and Floor's and Tobias's voice are perfectly blended. Listen to it
If you like harmonies, you will absolutely love Somewhere by Within Temptation ft. Anneke van Giersbergen (ruclips.net/video/ScjEJRIZGvg/видео.html). You will also be able to meet another Dutch metal queen Sharon den Adel. She is self taught.
Check out Grace by Devin Townsend with Anneke
There’s another live version in the: the electric castle live and other tales concert.
The a in Jansen is pronounced as the a in Darth and not as the a in Vader.
The second Goosens was the right one.
If u like harmonies ,u should defenitly check out Og3ne (if u haven't allready) ...very different but very Dutch 😉 ,3 sisters who harmonize as no other.
The only thing that really bothers me about this performance .... it is so short!
You should react to linkin park! They have a couple unreleased songs that they released and I Recommend listening to Lost by linkin park!
Should check out lewis Capaldi
Like harmonies? Check out OG3NE, a Dutch three-piece music group of three sisters :)
If you get blocked you can ask Arjen and he wil unblock it for you.
That was a Polish flag , not the Dutch ¨;-)
No, it's definitely the Dutch flag. I think you missed the blue part
polen is wit rood. En als je goed kijkt zie je hier rood wit blauw.
Masterpiece?? 😂
This song has a problem... is too damn short lol. Another great reaction, and valuable insights from you as always. Cheers from Buenos Aires!