(Review from progarchives.com, wikipedia)

Ambeon is a side project of Arjen Lucassen, featuring a young and very talented female vocalist, Astrid van der Veen.

Originally Arjen set out to record an ambient instrumental album based on certain electronic patterns, chords and melodies derived from the recorded tracks of existing Ayreon songs (to test his new studio hardware system). In the process some new songs evolved, and Arjen figured female vocals on one or two songs would add a warm human touch.

After hearing a recording of a 14-year young Dutch singer named Astrid van der Veen, he thought that this was exactly the voice he was looking for, and so asked her to write lyrics and melodies to go over some of these re-constructed ambient tracks and then sing them. This arrangement worked out extremely well. So before he realized it the album had developed from an instrumental album with two vocal songs to a vocal album with two instrumentals.

“Fate Of A Dreamer” is a very ambient “Arjen Lucassen” album. You’ll definitely recognize the melodies which are all derived from existing Ayreon tracks. They work great in an ambient setting with the wonderful voice of (then) teenage girl Astrid van der Veen.

Arjen Lucassen has stated that he’s not satisfied with “Fate of a Dreamer” and one day would very much like to make another, better Ambeon album.

Line-up:
- Arjen Lucassen / acoustic and electric guitars, analogue keyboards, samples and weird noises
- Astrid Van Der Veen / vocals and backing vocals
- Stephen Van Haestregt / acoustic and electronic drums and percussion
- Walter Latupeirissa / bass and fretless bass guitar
with
- John McManus / low flute and Uilleann pipes
- Pat McManus / fiddle
- Erik Norlander / additional synths
- Lana Lane / reversed backing vocals

Track List:
01. Estranged – 2:49
02. Ashes – 5:31
03. High – 4:14
04. Cold Metal – 6:52
05. Fate – 7:41
06. Sick Ceremony – 3:46
07. Lost Message – 4:32
08. Surreal – 4:39
09. Sweet Little Brother – 6:08
10. Dreamer – 5:17

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