For All We Know’s Latest – Take Me Home Provides the Music
:So today was a running day, I left about 8:15 knowing that would give me enough time to finish, take a shower and eat before 10:30 when I had to pick up granddaughter Zoe at school. The one thing that I didn’t remember was my wife had A doctor’s appointment at 10! One of the reasons that I forgot was that she was sick this morning and didn’t go to work.
II was made aware of my forgetfulness a little more than a half mile into my four mile run. In order to answer the phone I had to take off my headphones. That action along with the call I need to make to the doctor to make to cancel the appointment forced me to walk a short distance.
When I started again I was a short distance from the first mile. I passes that point in a time of 11:28 ! That was not a bad time considering the walking I did! In addition, I actually felt better than. I did before I walked and my average pace was dropping
I decided though to deviate from the course that I had planned to run. The basic reason for the deviation was the course I had planned to run would have required another lengthy uphill run!
The Run Post Phone Call
Anyway for the rest of the run, my overall pace continued to drop which meant that I was on pace to run the course in about the same time that I would have run it without the stop. By the time I finished 4 miles my pace was 10:50 minutes per mile! Since I felt pretty good i decided to kick it home with a little sprint. That brought my overall pace time down to 10:48 per mile. That makes the run one of my fastest!
The one thing that I did like about the runs was that because the first mile was so slow for the remainder of the run my overall pace kept going down! That kept me positive any running hard for the full run!!
The Results
Total Distance 4.15 miles Total Time: :4 Average Pace: 10:47 (m/m)
Mile Splits Mile 1: 11:38 m/m Mile 2 – 10:33 m/me 3 10:28 m/m Mile 4 10:43 m/m 0.15 – 9:34 m/m
Average Heart Rate ; 144 bpm Max Heart Rate 160 bpm
Calories Burned: 586 cals
The Soundtrack: For All We Know – Take Me Home
For All We Know is a project by Within Temptation guitarist Ruud Jolie. Jolie has recorded a number of songs as wel as albums with other artists. But the urge to write and record his own material has always been present. For All We Know released their self titled debut album six years ago. After that release Jolie’s urge to write and release more of his own music grew stronger. So Jolie started working on Take Me Home
Take Me Home was created over last five years, while Jolie was on the road with various bands including: Within Temptation, The Gentle Storm, Maiden uniteD, and others. As well as, in his own studio in the Netherlands.
The music and lyrics the comprise the album are a result of a collaboration between Ruud Jolie and vocalist Wudstik. The band’s line-up listed below is basically the same as the band on the first album released in 2011. Anneke van Giersbergen provides quest vocals on the album.
The twelve songs on Take Me Home range from dark, atmospheric and dreamily acoustic to bright, heavy and pounding progressive metal tracks. Jolie served as the alum’s producer. I have not listened to the band’s self-titled debut album but according to the band’s website ” Take Me Home takes things more into the extremes; heavy songs are heavier and softer songs are softer; and everything in between of course.'”
Musician Line-Up on Take Me Home
Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation) – Guitars & additional keys/programming
Wudstik (Ayreon) – Vocals & Screams
Léo Margarit (Pain of Salvation) – Drums
Kristoffer Gildenlöw (ex Pain of Salvation) – Bass
Marco Kuypers (ex Cloudmachine) – Piano, Rhodes & Wurlitzer
Thijs Schrijnemakers (Orgel Vreten) – Hammond
With
Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering, Ayreon, Devin Townsend, The Gentle Storm) – Vocals
Lisette van den Berg
Jenny Haapimaa
The Metal Factory Choir
Today’s run that had various challenges including the phone call and deciding how to alter the course and still make it four miles. Because of those challenges the album wasn’t that closely listened to. However, I did like what I heard and the album will definitely make its way into my music rotation and be there for several weeks! So Check It Out!!!
Links for the Further Exploration of the Music of For A We Know
Artist’s Website
Facebook
Bandcamp
ProgArchives
Here’s For All We Know ‘s – “We Are the Light” featuring guest vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen
