Anthony - Pools Of Sorrow ~ Waves Of Joy (1993) {Japan 1st Press}

Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy is the debut solo album of Dutch composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released under the name Anthony. He sang leading vocals and played most of the instruments himself. However unlike most of his future works Lucassen doesn't play bass, with Peter Vink (future member of Lucassen's band Star One and future contributor of Lucassen's project Ayreon) playing all bass. The name of the album comes from the song "Across the Universe" (by The Beatles), one of Lucassen's favorite songs.

Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen has been involved in a number of different projects in his two-decade-plus career. Most notable among these was heavy metal band Vengeance in the 1980s, and in the '90s, the progressively experimental Ayreon, whose every album featured guest vocalists like Kingdom Come's Lenny Wolfe, Marillion's Fish, and the Gathering's Anneke van Giersbergen -- usually enacting different characters in virtual art rock operas. Somewhere in between lay his new millennium project Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One, whose grandiose ambitions were pretty much described by 2002's Space Metal and its live companion piece of a year later, Live on Earth. Both also featured a revolving cast of guest performers, including Rising Force and Stratovarious alum Jens Johansson, Edge of Sanity singer/guitarist Dan Swano, and Shadow Gallery guitarist Gary Wehrkamp. Another project, Stream of Passion, featured Lucassen with Mexican singer Marcela Bovio; that band released several albums during the 2000s and 2010s.