Tg25: Live At Doornroosje

Great live performance from The Gathering. If you're a Gathering fan, you need this double cd in your collection. The musical performances are great, and Anneke gives a master class in vocals and performance. Her vocals are incredible. The cd set also comes with a booklet with good pictures and some commentary about the concert.

As an American fan who discovered them at the tail end of the Anneke era, "King For A Day" was an absolute delight. My only gripe was there wasn't an added DVD with the set. I would've paid double.

This is a fabulous live concert & a master stroke to get their most important past players participating including Anneke who is virtually on every track & is like a dream come true. Its also great to see Hugo Geerligs back on bass for most tracks & Bart singing clean & also some growling (which I'm not so keen on a couple of tracks). It starts off strongly with 'Saturnine' gets more interesting for 'Strange Machines' with Anneke singing and some great sampled speech then dips a bit with 'Meltdown' but truly becomes majestic with 'Nighttime Birds' which simply soars 1st with magnificent percussion then with wonderful keyboards, guitar & singing from Anneke. The next 2 tracks have Barts screeching style (which I understand as they are attempting to showcase all the styles) which could have been limited to 1 & have the 2nd in clean vocals because he has great clean vox. For this reason I prefer cd2 which has a better continuity of singing style.Anyway from here on almost all tracks attain the majestic & its hard not to love this band whohave released so much good/brilliant music the years & there live act is always excellent & consummate with slight nuances to the studio versions of the tracks which only adds to the listening experience & in some case like Broken Glass & Even the Spirits are Afraid are better to my ears.I would have awarded 5 stars if both nights of the concert were released & if there was some much longer improvisionary coda or section to a song, to really hear a transfixed workout, however, having said that the audience is at a much better volume as opposed to 'A noise Severe' where they were obtrusive and very annoying. There is some excellent trumpet playing on a couple of tracks (Heroes for Ghosts & where Silje's singing is outstanding) that really add a calming note & some great theremin work as well.If this is a valedictory album it is a wonderful testament to a truly accomplished & inspired band & a terrific farewell & fans can only be truly happyand satisfied with this 2cd live set :)

Imprescindible para todo fan de la banda y de la buena música en general. Una calidad de sonido excepcional, el concierto es todo un alarde de poderío y técnica, acompañado de sentimiento.Puestos a pedir, sólo me hubiera gustado que el repertorio hubiese sido más largo. Hecho en falta temas como "My Electricity", "Rescue Me", o por ejemplo "Kevin's Telescope".

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Alle, die wann und wie auch immer auf "The Gathering" gestoßen sind, werden auch dieses Live-Doppel-Album lieben. Die Band hat sich selbst und ihren Fans ein großartiges Geschenk gemacht. Ich liebe Anneke's Gesang, doch die ganze Band ist eine Klasse für sich.... trotzdem empfehle ich vor allem den Song "King for a day" ...mir lief es kalt den Rücken runter :-D

Un álbum que documenta el historico concierto en el que The Gathering reunió a la casi totalidad de músicos que han desfialdo por la banda a través de 25 años, haciendo un repaso de su historía musical, un álbum realmente exquisito.El servicio de Amazon como siempre excelente, el proceso de compra y envío fue rapidisimo y sin contratiempos.Las dos estrellas menos van por que el producto como objeto llegó maltratado, el envoltorio plástico roto y al ser un disco en empaque digipack este venía lastimado con rasguños que esteticamente lo degradan. Esto me incomodó mucho pues el precio no fue precisamente bajo, además de que una de las razones por las que habemos quienes seguimos adquiriendo música en formato físico es por el valor que como coleccionable le damos al producto. Sobra decir que en las condiciones anteriormente descritas este objeto de coleccionable tiene nada.

Great album, great variety of music with great Guest artists. Vinyl gives a nice warm sound. Wish I could have been there.