#Nightwish ever dream keyboard parts movie#
The idea of the movie to go along with the album occurred to me in the summer of 2007. But now that you say it, it makes sense! Maybe it’s more of a subconscious thing, but that’s a really good point. That’s an interesting point, I’ve never thought of that. Is that one of the reasons you decided to tell the Imaginaerum story now, because you had the perfect singer to tell it? In many interviews you gave after Anette joined the band, you said she had a storyteller’s voice. I knew her strengths, I knew her weaknesses, so it was a bit easier this time. There’s also the fact that I was able to write all the songs for her exact vocal range. But she sounds really good and more versatile on this album. She told me that all the while she was afraid she would be kicked out of the band if she sang poorly. On Dark Passion Play, she was still a bit uncertain. I think one of the most obvious things you hear when you listen to Imaginaerum is the vocal work.
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Do you think the album is better for this reason? For Imaginaerum, on the other hand, you knew exactly what Anette was capable of. You wrote Dark Passion Play without knowing exactly what voice was going to bring it to life. No, I did all the songs, except for one, which was made by Marco. The tour was really long, really hard, and at some point people from the band and the crew started dropping like flies, but we still managed to do it and feel really happy and proud about it.Īnette didn’t take part in the writing process for Dark Passion Play. So we had the confidence, but we still didn’t know. But we had a lot of confidence in her, and we had a really strong album with Dark Passion Play. All the signs of a major catastrophe were there at some point, because you just don’t know how people will react. We really didn’t know what to expect, how the fans would react. Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards) : I would give the whole tour an A. Radio Metal : What is your assessment of your first tour with Anette as a singer? What reactions did you witness and what are your thoughts on them? She told me that all the while she was afraid she would be kicked out of the band if she sang poorly. »
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« I think one of the most obvious things you hear when you listen to Imaginaerum is the vocal work. On a lighter subject, the keyboard player told us a few amusing anecdotes from the set of the movie, confessing his awkwardness as an amateur actor and his inability to cry on command.īetween the genesis of the project and the efforts needed to make it a reality, the music on this special and incredibly varied album (probably the most varied in the band’s career), the movie itself and the shooting, the upcoming tour and, more generally, the band’s future, we weren’t exactly short of questions. At some point, moved by the overpowering desire to reach a result (“It was that kind of feeling, when you think you cannot look at yourself in the mirror unless you do certain things”) and a naïveté he easily confesses, Tuomas was even close to selling his house. Making a movie is just a little more expensive than producing an album – even for a big band like Nightwish. On the contrary, the biggest dreams demand the biggest amount of sacrifices, blood, doubts and lack of comfort. There’s more behind every ambitious project than just glamour, money and comfort. If Nightwish’s albums have always displayed a certain coherence and openly boasted influences from Hollywood film music composers, like Hans Zimmer, it’s the very first time the result is that close to the original stuff. Imaginaerum, written as part of a project combining a movie and a record, sounds more like a soundtrack than a collection of songs. Nightwish’s leader Tuomas Holopainen, a cinema and soundtrack enthusiast for years and years now, has now achieved what he had probably always dreamed of, even unconsciously.