Fate of a Dreamer

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Fate of a Dreamer
Studio album by Ambeon
Released	2001
Genre	Metal
Length	51:29
Label	Transmission Records
Producer	Arjen Lucassen
Ambeon chronology
No older releases Fate of a Dreamer (2001) No newer releases

Fate of a Dreamer is Ambeon's debut album, released in 2001 by Dutch music label Transmission Records. All of the ten tracks features samples from and arrangements of Ayreon's songs, as noted below. The album is currently out of print, due to the closing of Transmission.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Musicians 3 Guest musicians 4 Ayreon's song reference

[edit] Track listing

1. "Estranged" – 2:47
2. "Ashes" – 5:29
3. "High" – 4:12
4. "Cold Metal" – 6:50
5. "Fate" – 7:39
6. "Sick Ceremony" – 3:44
7. "Lost Message" – 4:30
8. "Surreal" – 4:37
9. "Sweet Little Brother" – 6:06
10. "Dreamer" – 5:17

[edit] Musicians

• Astrid van der Veen: Vocals, background vocals
• Arjen Lucassen: Acoustic and electric guitar, keys, samples
• Stephen van Haestregt: Acoustic and electronic drums, percussions
• Walter Latupeirissa: Bass, fretless bass

[edit] Guest musicians

• John McManus: Low flute, Uilleann pipes
• Pat McManus: Viola
• Erik Norlander: Synthesizers
• Lana Lane: Reversed background vocals

[edit] Ayreon's song reference

• "Estranged": "Ye Courtyard Minstrel Boy" (from The Final Experiment)
• "Ashes": "Back on Planet Earth" (from Actual Fantasy)
• "High": "The Shooting Company of Captain Frans B. Cocq" (from Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer)
• "Cold Metal": "Into the Black Hole" (from Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator)
• "Fate": "Welcome to the New Dimension" and "Forever of the Stars" (both from Into the Electric Castle)
• "Sick Ceremony": "Magic Ride" (from The Final Experiment)
• "Lost Message": "The Charm of the Seer" (from The Final Experiment) and "Carried by the Wind" (from Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer)
• "Surreal": "And the Druids turn to Stone" (from Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer)
• "Sweet Little Brother": "2084" (from Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer)
• "Dreamer": "Computer Eyes" (from Actual Fantasy)

(A bit of trivia: A small segment of the vocals from "Ashes" were sampled when Lucassen rerecorded the instrumental portion of Actual Fantasy for the 2005 reissue. The vocals are heard on the track "Back On Planet Earth," from which Ashes was originally derived.)