Ayreon - Time Beyond Time (Electric Castle Live And Other Tales)

On March 27 Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group release ‘Ayreon – Electric Castle Live and Other Tales’, a 2CD+DVD set of last year’s live spectacular performance of the third Ayreon album ‘Into The Electric Castle’.


Over four nights at Tilburg’s 013 venue (scene of the Ayreon Universe series of live shows in 2017) Lucassen, his band and one of modern progressive music’s most emphatic of casts celebrated the 20th anniversary of the third Ayreon album in front of thousands of adoring fans who had flown in from around the world.


Originally released in 1998, ‘Into The Electric Castle’ is a classic tale of an epic quest. Set in ‘no time and no space’, it tells the story of eight individuals who are guided by a mysterious voice and tasked with finding the mysterious Electric Castle and discover what’s inside. The entire album was performed live, featuring original album singers and musicians, such as Thijs Van Leer, Fish, Damian Wilson, Edward Reekers, Anneke van Giersbergen, and several special guests including Simone Simons (Epica) and Star Trek’s John De Lancie as narrator.


The ‘Other Tales’ are deep cuts from Arjen Lucassen’s other projects, such as The Gentle Storm, Ambeon, Stream of Passion, Guilt Machine, Star One, his solo-album Arjen Anthony Lucassen and a very special Marillion cover.


Step into the Electric Castle!


Tracklisting:


CD 1


1. Welcome to the New Dimension
2. Isis and Osiris
3. Amazing Flight
4. Time Beyond Time
5. The Decision Tree
6. Tunnel of Light
7. Across the Rainbow Bridge
8. The Garden of Emotions
9. Valley of the Queens
10. The Castle Hall
11. Tower of Hope
12. Cosmic Fusion


CD 2


13. Robby Valentine
14. The Mirror Maze
15. Evil Devolution
16. The Two Gates
17. Forever of the Stars
18. Another Time, Another Space
19. Shores of India
20. Ashes
21. Out in the Real World
22. Twisted Coil


Personnel :


Vocalists




John de Lancie – Narrator
Fish (ex-Marillion) – Highlander
Simone Simons (Epica)[3] – Indian
Damian Wilson (Headspace, Maiden uniteD, ex-Threshold) – Knight
Edwin Balogh – Roman
Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gentle Storm, VUUR, ex-The Gathering) – Egyptian
John Jaycee Cuijpers – Barbarian
Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Hippie
Edward Reekers (ex-Kayak) – Futureman
George Oosthoek – Death
Mark Jansen (Epica, Mayan, ex-After Forever) - Death
Marcela Bovio (ex-Stream of Passion, Mayan) - Backing vocals, lead vocals on "Out in the Real World"
Dianne van Giersbergen (Ex Libris, ex-Xandria) - Backing vocals
Jan Willem Ketelaers - Backing vocals
Robert Soeterboek - Vocals on "Songs of the Ocean"
Michael Mills (Toehider) - TH-1 (recorded intro to Other Tales section)
Rutger Hauer - Voight Kampff (recorded intro to "Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin")
Production
Arjen Anthony Lucassen – producing, mixing
Brett Caldas-Lima – mastering




Instrumentalists




Ed Warby – drums
Marcel Singor (Kayak) – lead guitar
Ferry Duijsens (VUUR) – guitar
Bob Wijtsma (Ex Libris) – guitar
Johan van Stratum (VUUR, ex-Stream of Passion) – bass
Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) – keyboards
Ben Mathot – violin
Jurriaan Westerveld – cello
Thijs van Leer (Focus) – flute
Robby Valentine - piano on "Robby Valentine" and "The Mirror Maze"
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - guitar on "Songs of the Ocean"
23. Kayleigh
24. Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin
25. Songs of the Ocean