{"id":675,"date":"2010-12-19T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/?p=675"},"modified":"2015-09-10T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:44:03","slug":"anneke-giersbergen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/anneke-giersbergen\/","title":{"rendered":"Anneke van Giersbergen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2742\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/anneke-tim-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Anneke van Giersbergen. Photo by Tim Tronckoe\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/anneke-tim-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/anneke-tim-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/anneke-tim-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/anneke-tim-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/anneke-tim-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/anneke-tim-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anneke van Giersbergen. Photo by Tim Tronckoe<\/figcaption><\/figure>Anneke van Giersbergen is featured on<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/content\/into-the-electric-castle\/\">Ayreon &#8211; Into the Electric Castle<\/a><br \/>\nAyreon &#8211; Temple of the Cat (single)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/content\/01011001\/\">Ayreon &#8211; 01011001<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/content\/the-diary\/\">The Gentle Storm &#8211; The Diary<\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" \/><br \/>\nArjen had this to say in 2006:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hans van Vuuren of the Transmission label is a big fan of Anneke and one day asked me to have a good listen to her voice. Indeed I was quite impressed! Anneke is a pitch-perfect singer and her voice has a wonderful deep vibrato. It took quite some time to convince Anneke (but more specifically, convince her band) to guest on Ayreon. I scheduled a whole day for her to record her vocals for &#8216;Into the Electric Castle&#8217;, but recorded everything in a little over an hour! I think her melodies for The Gathering are quite unique, so I asked her to create her own melody lines for the song &#8216;Tunnel of Light&#8217;. She is a very talented singer and it is unfortunate she doesn&#8217;t do more side-projects. If she did, she could develop even more and we would be able to enjoy her voice so much more!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2015 Arjen and Anneke collaborated on <a href=\"content\/arjens-projects\/the-gentle-storm\/\">The Gentle Storm<\/a>, with Anneke writing the lyrics and singing, and Arjen taking care of the music and production. Arjen helped Anneke form a live touring band for The Gentle Storm. You can find out more about what the live band is up to on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheGentleStorm\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anneke_van_Giersbergen\" target=\"_blank\">More info about Anneke van Giersbergen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arjen explains: Hans van Vuuren of the Transmission label is a big fan of Anneke and one day asked me to have a good listen to her voice. Indeed I was quite impressed. Anneke is a pitch-perfect singer and her voice has a wonderful deep vibrato. It took quite some time to convince Anneke (but more specifically her band) to participate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"blackboxtitle","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artists","category-vocals","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenlucassen.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}