Travel beyond time

Previous reviews have said the right thing. So I'm just giving my impressions. I am only slightly familiar with Lucassen, Ayreon but I know on the surface. By cons I started to be enchanted by Mandyllion Anneke from The Gathering, and I am each of its breakaways.
In the first rumors of The Gentle Storm I was already crazy seeing how the project denoted by their respective habits. The wait was long but that's it and it's wonderful.
I ordered the vinyl edition, superb. Three well-thick disks plus the album in two CDs (as the standard edition but in a plastic bag). The cover shows that do better, but the top is the book that becomes a real travel book, the sublime impressions. Also total immersion, the voice of Anneke made new wonders and Lucassen did denies nothing. The compositions are incredible finesse, sometimes sinuous never lost. The progressive aspect is that of an open mind. Travel in time and on earth including the excellent "Shores of India", "heart of Amsterdam." Finally I will not make single title because they are all essential. I was especially afraid there is an epic side and pompous, but rather it is enchanting.
The two versions complement each other perfectly, re-orchestrated (what bosseur anyway). Each title wins something in one or the other direction, offering two levels of reading. The Storm The part is impressive because it respects the dynamics, the intonations of the first by adding power and finesse sometimes because Lucassen is anything but a poor guitarist. Demonstration ever, everything is at the service of the epic in this double album that I listen almost therapeutically as it offers a breakaway and perspective to the sluggishness of some days.