The Accacha Chronicles

[2] [3] The first part captures the western concept of a requiem while at the same time abandoning the traditional rich chords and free, rubato meter of a cathedral work.

[citation needed] The studio-version (3 hours and 44 minutes released by Sony BMG 82876 66239 2) of this operatic work features vocalists such as (as credited) Derek Lee Ragin, Claron McFadden, La Verne Williams, Ian Honeyman, Jean-Paul Fauchechourt, Henk Lauwers and Marcello Rosca and the Bulgarian Voices Angelite.

In 2005 Lens recently rewrote an operatic acoustic version of The Accacha Chronicles of about 5 hours and 20 minutes which is very different -more complex in rhythm and tonality (much more a-tonal) than the CD-versions.

And apparently the gods seem to be fascinated by the mortals and their behaviour, especially by their reactions on dramatic events like death, birth and love.

Isn’t it a fact that as death sneaks around every corner, it creates fear and angst, of course, but it feeds as well the necessary strength and the courage mortals need to make something of the time they have."

Once totally unexpectedly, the second time to bury her after she crashed with a Norman Islander-plane against the top of a mountain of the Papuan Central Province during a typhoon.