Actual Fantasy - 1996

Nesse cd Arjen quis estimular a fantasia, não simular a realidade, o Actual Fantasy é oposto de realidade virtual.

Faixas:

1- Actual Fantasy e a introdução do cd, e começa como um conto de fadas, bonito e orquestrado.

2- Abbey of Syn foi inspirada no filme "O Nome da Rosa" com Sean Connery; a música conta a história de um monastério onde "rir" foi esquecido. Um por um dos monges vai morrendo misteriosamente, até que descobrem um livro de comédia escrito por Aristóteles, mas as páginas estão envenenadas, se você as toca, morre!

3- Stranger From Within conta a história de médicos tentando salvar uma garota do coma. A garota começa a fantasiar um estranho que pode ser perigoso ou apenas mágico; o estranho diz a ela que ela não pode se curar apenas usando a imaginação, que tem que deixar os médicos ajudarem. A garota acorda do come a o estranho se torna parte dela.

4- Computer Eyes conta a história de alguém que estava jogando um jogo de computador a dias, até que se torna parte do jogo, não tem mais emoções e acaba se tornando um holograma.

5- Beyond the Last Horizon foi escrita por Arjen nos últimos dias de vida de seu pai, a história acontece na idade média durante as crusadas; um dos soldados morre e caminha por uma luz que aparece no horizonte, mas essa luz não leva a um lugar tão bonito quanto dizem, leva a um lugar sombrio e onde ele vai desaparecer.

6- Farside of the World é baseada num obscuro filme australiano chamado "O Navegador", que conta a história de um jovem que vive na idade média numa vila onde pragas estão matando todos os habitantes. O jovem cai e tem uma visão de que para curar sua vila precisa fazer um buraco que passe entre a Terra, e do outro lado, tem de passar pelo topo de uma torre de prata.

7- Back on The Planet Earth conta a história de um garoto que vive numa estação espacial onde ouve os mais velhos contando histórias de quando viviam na Terra, então vai até um computador onde acha imagens de coisas lindas da Terra, como montanhas e flores, mas que foram destrídas por guerras de desastres ecológicos e que as pessoas que viviam lá tiveram de mudar para estações espaciais para sobrevive; então percebe que teria morrido na Terra e continua vivendo na fria estação espacial.

8- Forevermore é baseada no filme "História Sem Fim" e conta a história de um garoto que rouba um livro de uma loja e chega atrasado na escola, então vai ler seu livro. O mundo da Fantasia está sendo comido pelo Nada e o herói da história tem de curar a imperatriz de sua doença e salvar a Fantasia.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On 'Actual Fantasy' Arjen wanted to stimulate fantasy, not simulate reality. Actual fantasy is the opposite of virtual reality.

Tracks:

1- Actual Fantasy: This song is the intro of the CD and starts like a fairy-tale, beautiful, with a classical orchestra.

2- Abbey of Synn: Synn is the old spelling for 'sin' and also refers to the important role of the synthesizer on the CD. Inspired by the movie 'Name of the Rose' with Sean Connery, the song tells the story of a monastery where laughter is strictly forbidden. One by one monks die mysteriously each having a blackened finger and tongue. It turns out that the monks have discovered a book of comedy written by Aristotle, but the pages are poisoned; if you lick your finger to turn a page it will kill you.

3- Stranger From Within: In this story that Arjen wrote himself, doctors are trying to find a way to help a girl who is in a coma. In this state she begins to fantasize about some stranger. He could be dangerous, or harmless, or just a magician. The stranger tells her that she can cure herself using her own imagination, and then he allows the doctors to 'shoot' him as he takes the disease with him. The girl wakes up and the stranger from within has become part of her.

4- Computer Eyes: This song is a story Arjen wrote himself. It is about someone who has been playing a computer game for days. At a certain time he isn't able to tell anymore whether he's playing a game or has become part of it. He doesn't feel any emotions and has become like a hologram unable to find a way out. This song is certainly not an attack on computers, for this album could never have been made without computers. It just all depends on how you use computers and virtual reality.

5- Beyond the Last Horizon: This is story Arjen came up with during the last few days of his father's life. The story is set in the Middle Ages during the days of the crusades. One of the crusaders is ambushed and killed. After that it's a familiar story: he sees a light and he rides towards it on a road that disappears on the horizon. Beyond it is the 'last horizon': death. In most stories it says there is a beautiful light or heaven. But where he is, there is darkness. There is nothing beyond the last horizon; he will disappear.

6- Farside of the World: This song is based on 'The Navigator', an obscure Australian movie. It's about a boy in a medieval English village where the plague is killing most of the inhabitants. The boy falls and has a vision: in order to cure the village they must dig a hole straight through the earth, and- on the other side- place a cross on top of a silver tower.

7- Back on Planet Earth: In this story, written by Arjen himself, a boy lives in a space station. Humans have lost the ability to feel but he overhears the older people telling stories about the days when they lived on earth. On his computer the boy finds images of the most beautiful things, such as flowers and mountains, but he also finds out that earth was destroyed by wars and environmental disasters and people eventually had to live in space in order to survive. The boy realizes that after seeing people with emotions, and their laughter, he would rather have died on earth, than be in the cold space station.

8- Forevermore: Based on the movie 'The Neverending Story'. A boy steals a book from a store. The boy arrives too late for class, sneaks into the attic and crawls under a blanket to read the book. The fictitious world of 'Fantasia' is falling apart; it's being eaten by the Nothing. Symbolizing the fact that nobody's fantasizing anymore. The hero in the story has to cure the empress from her disease, and save 'Fantasia'. He does so by giving the Empress a name.

9- Dawn of Man: This is a very experimental song with vocoder and scratches on it. The story is based on Stanley Kubrick's '2001' and '2010', but with Arjen's own fantasy and interpretation incorporated. The listener should do the same; the lyrics cannot be explained one way. Just use your imagination!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cantores / Singers: Edward Reekers (Kayak), Okkie Huysdens and Robert Soeterboek (Cotton Soeterboek Band).


Download: http://www.hotshare.net/file/119741-5486616c83.html