THE GENTLE STORM – New Song "Shores Of India" Available For Streaming

Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine) and Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering, Devin Townsend Project) will release the debut album, The Diary, from their new band The Gentle Storm, on March 24th. They have checked in with the following tease:

“Wanna hear a track from The Diary already? We’ve uploaded the gentle version of ‘Shores Of India’ for you! This song really shines in its acoustic setting. It feels like an emotional journey, also because of the many exotic instruments. It’s very different from the much more bombastic and orchestral ‘storm’ version, which you’ll soon find out when we release the next big video clip!” 

The Gentle Storm recently released a video for the new song “Heart Of Amsterdam”. Due to an ongoing dispute between YouTube and the GEMA – a performance rights organisation – some fans in Germany are unable to watch the video. The full length clip can be viewed by German fans and everyone else via this link to Muzu.tv. It will begin playing automatically.

Anneke: “The song is a tribute to the city of Amsterdam, the home town of the story’s leading character Susanne. Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a centre of shipping, shipbuilding, and trade. Amsterdam flourished, and a wonderful city was the result. We shot the video in the centre of Amsterdam. It was freezing cold and I couldn’t move my fingers anymore during the last shots, but it was all worth it. I love how the video turned out!”