The Gathering

Yes..I dont like the name either.
But I really like the music
How do I reserve a copy?
I think its a bit vague on the site..

I agree, It's not that obvious how to reserve a copy so I decided to order tickets for the concert in Amsterdam on the 3rd of November & hopefully buy my copy of Air there.

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but then it wont be signed personally unless u can talk to her and she is in a good mood

Unless someone else has a different thing to say here, Anneke is an extremely warm person when someone approaches for a picture/sign/etc... so, i dont think that would be the problem

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I just used my Paypal account to send money to the email address listed
and gave them my address. But yeah, she's very happy to sign stuff if
you get the chance to meet her

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yeah, nice!

the song in that video sounds beautiful

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Song is from:

Artist: Bonnie Beecher (componist Jeff Alexander)
Title: Come Wander With Me

They use the song here on a commercial from RVS! Anneke really loved that song, and googled around from who it was. If I'm correct they used this song also as titlesong from the American serie 'The twilightzone'

Commercial:

http://www.ster.nl/ster?nav=mfunLsHCjEN ... ediaspeler

Clip from The Twilightzone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z7qFcS4mXs

to be honest, I find it weird to tease a first album with a cover...
Not that the video is bad and all, but I would have expected something from AdA...

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The 'Come Wander With Me' song was composed by Jeff Alexander and sung by Bonnie Beecher herself.

The song is built into the story. It builds verse by verse together with the events in the episode. Part of the lyrics are not complete, since some verses are not sung in full.

He said
Come wander with me, Love
Come wander with me
Away from this sad world
Come wander with me

He came from the sunset
He came from the sea
He came from my sorrow
And can love only me



Oh where is the wanderer
Who wandered this way
He's passed on his wandering
And will never go away



He sang of a sweet love
Of dreams that would be
But I was sworn to another
And could never be free

The Rayfords were brothers
Four men tall and bold
And for one I was chosen
With my love still untold

They heard of the wanderer
They heard he loved me
They heard that…
(....)


You killed Billy Rayford
Bespoke onto me
Struck him down in his anger
'Neath an old Willow tree

By the lake where our love dwelled
'Neath an old Willow tree
You killed Billy Rayford
'Neath an old Wilow tree

They sought out their brother
And found him alone
They wept by the lakeside
For a boy hardly grown

They wept by the lakeside
And vowed he must die
The wandering stranger…


Use of the Song in Modern Culture
2003: For the Soundtrack of the film The Brown Bunny
2006: Backgrund Music for a television commercial of the Dutch insurance company (RVS). It shows flying men with open umbrellas (inspired by the work of René Magritte).
Part of the mixed disc 'Late Night Tales' by the group Air

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It starts with a very simple drum beat that seems to find its way into almost every track, and develops into a straightforward vocals-oriented piece sung by The Gathering's ex-siren, Anneke van Giersbergen. Hence the band's name - get it? Agua De Annique - with the 'agua' referring to the repeated reference to water as a metaphor for so many things in her lyrics.

But although this band belongs to The Gathering's ex front lady, don't expect to hear that band's sound here. This is more Sleepy Buildings than Manyylion - more lullaby than rocker, more pop than prog. Anneke herself describes the music as "alternative pop-rock", and admits that "because these songs were written by one person they don't have as many elements as The Gathering's music - they're simpler, not so layered, and not as eclectic". We would agree. Listen to "You Are Nice" to see what she means - linear, straightforward, and not progressive, doomy, metallic or gothic in any way. It's very song-oriented, and with 13 radio-friendly short songs in 51 minutes, and only two songs (barely) breaking the 5-minute mark, the album is clearly directed toward a commercial market.

The songs describe vignettes of her life through the passage of several years. Anneke's excellent singing seems to permeate every bar of every song, and her vocal delivery is faultless and her pitch control is spot on, as you'd expect, though you might wish for a bit more complexity or a few more instrumentals to punctuate the songs. The lineup is pretty standard, though it's enhanced by guest artists helping out with more vocal lines, strings, flute and trumpet. More emphasis on those additional textures would have been nice.

It was made clear to us that our review copy is probably not the final mix. Production was generally quite good even in this pre-release version, so - as with The Gathering - expect Air to be a well produced, professionally turned out body of work. Let's face it - after all that time in a top-flight genre-leading

Duncan Glenday

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As you have probably all heard, Anneke van Giersbergen abrubtly left The Gathering recently, and has quickly put together her own band, Agua de Annique. Air is the debut album, and she's decided to stay with The End Records, who have been the label of her previous band for a few years. The music here is not much different than what we have come to expect from The Gathering the last half decade or so, although surprisingly there are a few heavier songs on this CD than what we have come to expect from Anneke in quite a while. "Witnesses" rocks pretty damn hard, filled with plenty of relentless guitar riffs from Joris Dirks and pummeling drums courtesy of Rob Snijders, and the opener "Beautiful One" matches catchy hooks with shimmering arrangements and driving rhythms, easily one of the most commercially appealing rock songs on the CD.

There's plenty of ballady pop material here that lets Anneke show off an almost Jewel-like folky quality, like on "Yalin", "Day After Yesterday", and the modern indie-rock flavored "My Girl". The singers angelic crooning floats over lilting guitar chords on "Take Care of Me", and soars alongside rock guitars and Dirks' backing vocals on "Ice Water". However, it's not until "You Are Nice!" that the band really kicks things up again, as this one is a heavy rocker, with thick guitar riffs, stabbing synth blasts, and Anneke's snarling vocals. Unfortunately, that's the last rocker of the bunch, as the second half of the CD is filled with more laid back, melancholy numbers, the most interesting of which is the somewhat jazzy "Sunken Soldiers" and the Pink Floyd inspired "Lost and Found", the latter featuring some great guitar leads from Dirks.

Despite some moments that sees Anneke moving towards more aggressive & dramatic territory , much of Air comes across as a collection of ballads and singer-songwriter type material. There's certainly a huge market for this kind of stuff here in the US, and I'm sure that fans of the last few Gathering releases will eat this up, but if you long for anything along the lines of Mandylion, Nightime Birds, or If_Then_Else, you're not going to find much of that here. Air is sort of like what we've heard on Home and Souvenirs, just with a different band behind the lovely and talented Anneke van Giersbergen.


Reviewer: Pete Pardo

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but the song on that video is not sung by anneke?
i think it sounds like her

if it is anneke, will it be on the album?

also that review makes me exciting!

Ja natuurlijk is dat gezongen door Anneke!! Ze heeft dat gecoverd

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zo mooi
ik vind het eigenlijk beter dat ze nu wat 'commercieler' wordt.
beetje popper, haar stem past er zo goed bij.
mss bij t volgende album wat minder minimalist muziek , kan haar stem nog beter naar voren brengen

please, could you speak english?

thanx.