Star One - New Album First Details Unveiled
Star One - New Album First Details Unveiled
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Abattoir October 06, 2021
Arjen explains the decision to return with a new Star One album: "Ayreon is like the mothership for all my music. It contains all the different musical styles that I like to listen to and that I love to create. But I’m always looking for challenges and trying to create something new and original as well. Working within a set of constraints forces you to do that, so sometimes I like to limit myself and focus on just one style. For example, with Star One I focus on the metal-side of Ayreon. That means you won’t hear the exuberantly liberal use of acoustic instruments that are so often featured on Ayreon albums, like violin, woodwinds, cello, horns, dulcimer, mandolin, etc."
The artwork was designed by Ayreon artist Jef Bertels, Arjen explains: "As always, Jef's painting is wondrously labyrinthine; I can sit in front of it for hours and discover new details all the time. Now you might be thinking "Hey, isn't Jef Bertels the designated artist for Ayreon, but not for Star One?" Of course I thought about that myself. But when I realized how much I liked this album I felt that it deserved a painting of its own and a special place alongside Jef’s other front-cover masterpieces. And anyway, I’ve been breaking rules ever since the very beginning of Ayreon. So… there you have it!"
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I've generally enjoyed Star One a lot more than Ayreon, so I am somewhat hopeful for this too. There are quite a few songs on previous Star One albums that I still listen to regularly.
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Posts: 366 Written by Opethian on 07.10.2021 at 03:51 That was a disaster but I'm sure it wasn't originally planned as a studio album before COVID hit? Still, I think Arjen is just going through the motions with recent releases. All the Ayreon stuff has started to sound the same and it's all just about the guest vocalists more than the music. I'd love him to do something like Guilt Machine again or do something like the prog rock Universal Migrator again (his best album imo).
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