Anneke van Giersbergen (Official Thread)

b.o.b.

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 8, 2010
Posts
2,554
Reaction score
3
Location
Romania
I decided to introduce you to a beautiful lady: Anneke van Giersbergen. I know and appreciate her since she was the lead singer of the gothic doom dutch band The Gathering. A few years ago she left the band and started a solo project named Agua de Annique. The style is very different but her beautiful voice makes her still irresistible to me. She also sings in many other rock/metal projects with Ayreon, Moonspell, Devin Townsend, Within Temptation or Danny Cavanagh from Anathema.

agua-de-annique-appelpop-tiel-06.jpg


Official Website

Studio albums
Air (2007) - lead vocals, piano
Pure Air (2009) - lead vocals, piano
In Your Room (2009) - lead vocals, keyboards, piano, guitar
Everything is Changing (2012) - lead vocals, piano, guitar
Drive (2013)


Split releases
In Parallel with Danny Cavanagh (2009) - lead vocals


With Ayreon
Into the Electric Castle (1998) - vocals and lyrics for character Egyptian in "Isis and Osiris", "The Decision Tree (We're alive)", "Tunnel of Light", "The Garden of Emotions", "Valley of the Queens" and "Another Time, Another Space"
01011001 (2008) - vocals and composition of vocal melodies for character Forever "Heart" in "Age of Shadows (We are Forever)", "Comatose", "Beneath the Waves", "The Fifth Extinction", "Waking Dreams" and "The Sixth Extinction"


With Devin Townsend

Studio albums
Addicted (2009) - lead and backing vocals
Epicloud (2012) - lead and backing vocals


With The Gathering

Studio albums
Mandylion (1995) - lead vocals
Nighttime Birds (1997) - lead vocals, guitar
How to Measure a Planet? (1999) - lead vocals, guitar
if_then_else (2000) - lead vocals, guitar
Souvenirs (2003) - lead vocals, guitar
Home (2006) - lead vocals, guitar


Maybe, when you need a quiet moment, you will enjoy too some of her songs:

Anneke van Giersbergen & Agua de Annique - Wonder (official music video)



Anneke van Giersbergen & Agua de Annique @ Giel, 3FM Radio



Within Temptation & Anneke van Giersbergen - Somewhere

 
Last edited by a moderator:

Soot and Stars

I AM SOOT!
Joined
Sep 23, 2009
Posts
16,434
Reaction score
123
Location
Small Town NH, USA
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

Out of all the groups listed I only have one c.d. and that was Within Temptation but I loved what I heard B.O.B.! :grinthumb My favororite songs were the first one and by far the third one! I love her voice against sparse arrangements as it's her voice that shines. In vid #3 I think I'd like that raw studio performance better than anything they are likely to turn it into for a album version. The only quibble I have is with her talent I was so excited about her cover of Blowers Daughter and I felt underwhelmed afterward. I'm a HUGE fan of the original artist Damien Rice and for a song so emotional she kind of phoned in the performance IMO. That being said I would definitely buy her recent work! :grinthumb
 

b.o.b.

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 8, 2010
Posts
2,554
Reaction score
3
Location
Romania
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

One of my favorite The Gathering songs:

 

b.o.b.

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 8, 2010
Posts
2,554
Reaction score
3
Location
Romania
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

Out of all the groups listed I only have one c.d. and that was Within Temptation but I loved what I heard B.O.B.! :grinthumb My favororite songs were the first one and by far the third one! I love her voice against sparse arrangements as it's her voice that shines. In vid #3 I think I'd like that raw studio performance better than anything they are likely to turn it into for a album version. The only quibble I have is with her talent I was so excited about her cover of Blowers Daughter and I felt underwhelmed afterward. I'm a HUGE fan of the original artist Damien Rice and for a song so emotional she kind of phoned in the performance IMO. That being said I would definitely buy her recent work! :grinthumb


I'm glad that you like her. In my opinion her solo career is not as good as The Gathering years. Her new style is not quite my cup of tea but I still follow her releases.
 

LG

Fade To Black
Joined
Apr 20, 2009
Posts
36,862
Reaction score
71
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

You perked my interest when you mentioned she was part of Arjen's Ayreon projects. I'll check her out later, thanks for thread B.o.b.:D
 

Gabble Ratchet

Senior Member
Joined
Dec 2, 2009
Posts
6,101
Reaction score
5
Location
Australia
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

I listened to a few of the songs in the first post, and I have to say, this I like! Really beautiful ambient music, I'm going to have to listen to more when I'm not falling asleep at my chair! :grinthumb
 

Pixel

The Woolly One
Joined
Aug 14, 2010
Posts
1,054
Reaction score
0
Location
Canu'r Gwlad
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

Ooh, I like what little I've heard from The Gathering, I never knew she left the band though, gutted about that :( I'm intrigued by this solo project too, so will look at those vids when I get chance :)
 

b.o.b.

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 8, 2010
Posts
2,554
Reaction score
3
Location
Romania
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

The new album from Anneke with more catchy tunes:

97-1326739759.jpg

And two brand new videos:

 

Soot and Stars

I AM SOOT!
Joined
Sep 23, 2009
Posts
16,434
Reaction score
123
Location
Small Town NH, USA
Re: Anneke van Giersbergen

^^^^^^^^^^
I just listened to the above album and it started out really poppy then went into an Evanescence, Within Temptation direction. I looked it up and found out she had a lot of associations with that sort of music (sang alongside Within Temptation, Ayreon, etc.). Then I looked up the Gathering group and they sound just like those group as well. Then I vaguely remembered a thread with a chick like this that was created! Then I found out it was because I checked the thread out and liked what I heard! Then I bumped it! :D

Circles
 

Find member

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
30,655
Posts
1,064,725
Members
6,354
Latest member
edmerka

Staff online

Members online

Top