Lost in the New Real
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| Studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen | ||||
| Released | 23 April 2012 (Europe) May 8, 2012 (United States) |
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| Length | 90:20 | |||
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| Producer | Arjen Anthony Lucassen | |||
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Lost in the New Real (also referred to as Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Lost in the New Real) is the second solo studio album by Dutch songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen. It is Lucassen's first solo album since Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy released 18 years ago under the name Anthony, before he reached fame with his progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. He sang lead vocals for the first time since the first album, and played most of the instruments himself including all guitars, bass and keyboards.
As with Ayreon, it is a concept album. It follows the story of Mr. L (voiced by Lucassen), a modern-day man revived in a distant future where everything has changed. According to Lucassen, the story is "basically a separate story" but is indirectly related to Ayreon; the cover art includes the Dream Sequencer from the Ayreon album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer and the character of Mr. L already appeared in the Ayreon song "The Truth is in Here" (from 01011001). The album also features Dutch actor and Golden Globe-winner Rutger Hauer as Mr. L’s appointed psychological advisor, Voight-Kampff, in reference to the eponymous fictional polygraph-like device in Blade Runner, in which Hauer played.
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