For the past couple of weeks, Arjen Lucassen has been slowly revealing details of the forthcoming Ayreon album ‘The Theory of Everything’. Now it can be announced the album will be released on the 28th October 2013, and a full track-listing and details of the special guests can be found below. Arjen had this to say about the album:

With four long epics of more than 20 minutes and loads of instrumental passages, this is probably my most proggy release so far. I’m extremely proud of the eclectic list of guest musicians spanning several decades; many dreams have come true this time. There’s also a completely new story line to delve into, a drama exploring the complicated world of science and human emotions. My advice? Sit back, relax, headphones on, and let this album take you on a musical adventure!



CD1 :

PHASE I: SINGULARITY (23:29)

1 Prologue: The Blackboard

2 The Theory of Everything part 1

3 Patterns

4 The Prodigy’s World

5 The Teacher’s Discovery

6 Love and Envy

7 Progressive Waves

8 The Gift

9 The Eleventh Dimension

10 Inertia

11 The Theory of Everything part 2

PHASE II: SYMMETRY (21:31)

12 The Consultation

13 Diagnosis

14 The Argument 1

15The Rival’s Dilemma

16 Surface Tension

17A Reason To Live

18 Potential

19 Quantum Chaos

20 Dark Medicine

21 Alive!

22 The Prediction

CD2:

PHASE III: ENTANGLEMENT (22:34)

1 Fluctuations

2 Transformation

3 Collision

4 Side Effects

5 Frequency Modulation

6 Magnetism

7 Quid Pro Quo

8 String Theory

9 Fortune?

PHASE IV: UNIFICATION (22:20)

10 Mirror Of Dreams

11 The Lighthouse

12 The Argument 2

13 The Parting

14 The Visitation

15 The Breakthrough

16 The Note

17 The Uncertainty Principle

18 Dark Energy

19 The Theory of Everything part 3

20 The Blackboard (reprise)

Line-Up

Vocalists (in order of appearance):

JB as The Teacher

Sara Squadrani as The Girl

Michael Mills as The Father

Cristina Scabbia as The Mother

Tommy Karevik as The Prodigy

Marko Hietala as The Rival

John Wetton as The Psychiatrist

Instrumentalists:

Ed Warby -drums

Rick Wakeman – keyboards

Keith Emerson – keyboards

Jordan Rudess – keyboards

Steve Hackett – lead guitar

Troy Donockley – Uilleann pipes and low flute

Arjen Anthony Lucassen -electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, mandolin and keyboards.

(Ben Mathot -violins, Maaike Peterse -cellos, Jeroen Goossens – flute , bass flute, piccolo, bamboo flute and contrabass flute, Siddharta Barnhoorn – orchestrations, Michael Mills – Irish Bouzouki)

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