Iltalehti 15.06.2007

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NIGHTWISH NEW ALBUM LISTENED TO BY FINNISH MEDIA

This is what the new Nightwish album is like!
Iltalehti listened to the much-awaited new album.

Iltalehti was there when NW had invited some representatives of Finnish media to listen to Dark Passion Play at Finnvox studios. Tuomas Holopainen and the fresh singer Anette Olzon were obviously nervous as the first melodies burst out to be heard by outsiders.

- I haven’t had the courage to look at anyone’s face yet, Holopainen confessed as the listening session was half-way through.

The stormy past of the group isn’t left unclear in this new album. As Holopainen has always said, many things from deep within the soul have been written on the album. From the lyrics in Bye Bye Beautiful and Master Passion Greed there can be deduced frustration and also quite much 'blaming' between the lines. Holopainen, however, doesn’t want to analyse what he thought of Tarja Turunen and Marcelo Cabuli at the moment of writing the songs.

- I have never said anything about the lyrics and I won’t say anything now, he summarizes.

Anyone expecting the album to be a radio-friendly hit parade is disillusioned at the first 14-minute epic which begins the album. The upcoming single Amaranth is already somewhat easier stuff. As the album proceeds, it is clear that NW hasn’t slipped to an ‘artsey’ (= too artistic) side – there is still lot of material on this album to make one move both one’s head and feet.

Nevertheless, as Holopainen has said also himself, the album hardly can be appreciated fully at the first listening but rewards only after repeated listenings.

As before, the songs are accompanied with pompous arrangements – there is orchestra, kettledrums, choirboy…

And it also becomes clear that all doubts about Anette the new singer and about the strength of her voice can be buried. She very obviously brings warmth to NW compared to Tarja whose voice is more like a cold mountain brook. (tunturi = not actually a mountain but a fjeld in Lapland), and for example in the final song Meadows of Heaven, the hair on the skin of the listener begins to stand.

Today (Friday June 15), European music media in London has the chance to hear the album, as well.

Captions:
(the band is pictured without Jukka)
NW celebrated their new album yesterday at Finnvox studios and later at the Inferno (?). The pompous album makes one think of the world of movies. – I am still interested in making movie music, but let’s check this rock section first, Tuomas cracked.

(Anette photo)
Anette thinks it is the most important thing that the band itself likes what it has done. She also has nothing against if the album is liked by other people.

(Tuomas photo)
Tuomas didn’t have courage to look at anyone’s face during the listening session.

A shorter story in connection with the above article:

The group returned yesterday from LA where they made two videos directed by Antti Jokinen. The shooting of the videos was especially exhausting for Anette Olzon who had to be in front of the camera most.
- Antti is a great director. He knew exactly how to put the people in the right mood. When I was supposed to be angry in the video, he made me angry for real and the end result is excellent, Anette laughs.
Amaranth-video uses themes from the Finnish classic painting Wounded Angel by Albert Edelfelt (here the newspaper is wrong – I know the artist is Hugo Simberg grin.gif ; the painting can be viewed [link widoczny dla zalogowanych])
The idea was Jokinen’s.
- We got to spend two days in Disneyland and I also saw the Stanley Cup final and Teemu Selänne celebrating. Great, Tuomas says.

The new album comes out on Sep 26.

- It is the most important thing that we like the album, but it is nice if somebody else likes it too, Anette smiles.

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wow teledyski są już nagrane?!

...a ja nie wiem, czy bym czasem nie wolała tego zimnego, jak górski strumyk głosu... ale po tych wszystkich newsach coraz bardziej nie mogę się doczekać, kiedy wreszcie wpadnie mi w łapki Dark Passion Play Very Happy

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