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NIGHTWISH REVELA O CONCEITO PARA O NOVO DISCO:

Em meio às gravações de um novo disco, o Nightwish está também preparando um filme. "Imaginarium" é um filme fantasioso baseado na música do próximo disco do grupo, que carrega o mesmo nome e terá 13 faixas.

O protagonista do filme é um compositor com uma imaginação de outro mundo. Ele é um senhor de idade que pensa ainda ser um garoto. Enquanto dorme, ele viaja em seu passado distante, onde seus antigos sonhos retornam misturados com o mundo de música e fantasia do menino.

Em seus sonhos, o senhor luta para encontrar as memórias que mais lhe importavam.

Este projeto nunca feito anteriormente se deu origem há mais de dois anos, quando Tuomas pela primeira vez mostrou sua ambiciosa idéia do conceito de "Imaginarium" para seus parceiros de banda e ao diretor de "The Islander", o Sr. Stobe Harju. Ele será também o Diretor deste filme, que será produzido pela Solar Films Inc. juntamente com o Nightwish.

As filmagens de "Imaginarium" começarão nesta primavera, terá sua estréia em 2012 e o álbum será lançado em data ainda não definida.

O Nightwish irá realizar uma coletiva de imprensa relacionada a este projeto ao final de Fevereiro.

Busy day
Today has been quite busy so that´s why I havent been around. Lots happening and it´s exciting!

Just got an email from Tuomas from London and he says all is going so super good and he is so happy and that made me equally full of happiness;=)
I am so looking forward to hear the result when I enter the studio in march.

Now Nemo is sleeping and it´s time to read for Seth and then weight exercise. As I said: full day (and evening;=)

Sleep well!

Angel Studios, London

We arrived at Angel Studios in Islington, London in the evening of Valentine´s Day and had a most friendly welcome from studio engineers Steve Price and Mat Bartram. They`d already set up everything for next day`s recordings, which would include 3 three-hour sessions with a 53-piece orchestra, most of the players being familiar faces from the "Once" and "Dark Passion Play" - sessions. Pip (Williams, the orchestral arranger) joined us at the hotel and we were all excited and ready for a week of long days and for witnessing some superb musicianship.

A heartwarming feeling of reunion and nostalgia filled the air when we met the session musicians on Tuesday morning. We started off with "Goat`s Liver" (working title...probably), followed by a couple of more epic pieces and all the rest that required a large orchestra. The musicianship of these people never ceases to amaze me. They`ve never heard the songs before, they haven`t had any rehearsals, and still they nail all the songs, even those in the hardest imaginable key, after just one or two run-throughs. Their prima vista - playing is something out of a science fiction story... Respect.
Mr. Thomas Bowes did a fantastic job as our orchestra leader, Mr. James Shearman was a most superb conductor, and once again, Pip topped himself with the arrangements. We had put much more effort and thought into them than on the previous two albums, too.

On Wednesday we continued with the orchestral recordings, last of the day`s sessions being with a 20-piece string / harp - section. Some new working titles were also born, such as "The Birdie Song", "Teriyaki" and "Haunted Mansion Ride".

Thursday was the day for percussion and ethnic drums. This time we decided to record all the rhythmic instruments separately from the orchestra to make it easier for the mixing process. Because some of the sounds the percussionists came up with would literally blow your eardrums off.

The highlight of the day was when we let loose Mr. Paul Clarvis & Mr. Stephen Henderson with their ethnic percussion arsenal. Paul`s 350-year-old taiko-drum really did the trick for me, as did the 5-foot hammer and a dustbin. We put all this into a one 3-minute instrumental, and the result is breathtaking and madly passionate.

Friday was booked for choirs. Again that sensation of nostalgia when The Metro Voices entered the building. We had 13 titles to sing and they did it in less than seven hours, prima vista. Utterly gorgeous stuff!

A childrens` choir is something we haven`t tried on a Nightwish album before and its turn was on Saturday morning. The Young Musicians London, led by the wonderful Mary Poppins - like Lynda Richardson were simply heartbreaking. These kids have immense talent, they are future superstar musicians and we are proud to have them on our album. Their sound was beautiful, innocent and in parts very, very scary. And that`s exactly what we were after.

During the evening we had two more guest musicians, Mr. Dermot Crehan (of The Lord Of The Rings - fame) with his hardanger fiddle and Mr. Dirk Campbell with his zurna. Both performances were stunning and added a nice little ancient touch to two of the songs.


Our most humble thanks to all the session musicians, the Angel Studios staff, Pip, James, Thomas, Lynda, Dick the music copyist and Jenny the choir mistress. It was a huge honor to work with you all and to have such talent and spirit captured on "Imaginarium"!

We miss you all dearly already and try to be faster with the next album.



Tuomas, Hilton Islington 20.2.2011


Written by Tuomas Holopainen on February 20, 2011

The vocal recording sessions for the new NIGHTWISH album, "Imaginarium", have been postponed until April 4 in order to allow the band's singer, Anette Olzon, a longer recovery period after she suffered broken ribs in a recent fall. She writes on her blog, "me, [NIGHTWISH manager Ewo Pohjola of King Foo Entertainment Ltd.] and [NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist] Tuomas [Holopainen] decided that it's better if I rest the whole month and get in shape so I can do the vocals super good and have booked my vocal recordings from April 4 instead in another studio in Finland. This is really good, 'cause no one will be happy if the album won't sound perfect. And we don't have any hurry since the album has plenty of time to get mastered and ready still."

Holed up in the studio for the better part of this spring, NIGHTWISH is not only putting finishing touches to its new album, "Imaginarium", but also planning a movie of the same name. If all goes well, the CD will be released in early 2012, to be followed by the movie at some point further down the line. The first single off the album as well as the trailer for the film should arrive well before the end of 2011.

For the movie, NIGHTWISH has teamed up with director Stober Harju's production team and Solar Films.

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