This is indeed the lovely and talented Amanda Somerville! So happy to finally work with her. I can’t stop laughing at Amanda’s enthusiastic message here, what a great lady she is! #Ayreon #Transitus
Much deserved! Such a talent. She was also a vocal coach for Simone from Epica. You can see her singing backup on the We Will Take You with Us live video/DVD. Early Epica history!
one of my favourite parts of a new Ayreon album is getting to go research all the awesome guest members! you have led me to so much joy through discovering new music over the years Arjen! Thank you so much.
Arjen, I know you know Matt Smith because you have worked with him in the past .. So at what point do you finally score Daniel Heiman? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CpHmSdVAzKg.html
2:12 "A great undertaking" sounds like quite a "deep pun" (6 feet deep to be exact, pun intended on my part too, he he ;p) in the context of this gothic story. \M/
I'm not an expert but you may check Kiske/Somerville's City of Heroes or Exit Eden's cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Btw she was one of the writers and main singers of the concept album Aina which had quite a cast of serious singers some of which eventually featured in Ayreon (Sammet, Hietala).
I love any vocalist that works with Arjen, because.. it's an Arjen album, nothing more to say to that. But to be honest, from the thumbnail, I thought she was Jeri Ryan from Star Trek Voyager (NOT Picard!). Arjen, you already brought the amazing John De Lancie as narrator, so I thought you were sneakingly, going for a reunion of shorts.
@@ChrisPage68 bitter, alcoholic, depressed, murderous, borderline suicidal. Yeah! She was great! Exactly how Kathrin teached her, on how to be human. Come on now! Seriously!? She could act, I'll give you that. They can't take that from her. But her character is not even the one from the evil universe. It's a just not her.
