Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish) will release a new Christmas album titled “From Spirits And Ghosts (Score For A Dark Christmas)” on November 17. The effort will feature her take on Christmas classics, as well as one new song called “Together.”
Turunen commented:
“Producing a dark Christmas album in the middle of the summer is a very interesting process, especially if you are doing it by the turquoise Caribbean Sea. It’s significantly different from the snowy Christmas that I am used to in my home country Finland — another proof that the darkness comes from deep within. On this album, I explored the other side of Christmas — the Christmas of the lonely people and the missing ones, the Christmas for those that do not find joy in the blinking lights and the jingle bells.”
“From Spirits And Ghosts (Score For A Dark Christmas)” Track Listing:
01. “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
02. “Together”
03. “We Three Kings”
04. “Deck The Halls”
05. “Pie Jesu”
06. “Amazing Grace”
07. “O Tannenbaum”
08. “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
09. “God Rest Ye”
10. “Feliz Navidad”
11. “What Child Is This”
12. “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”
Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish) has premiered a new video for her song “An Empty Dream.” The track originally appeared on her “The Shadow Self” prequel, “The Brightest Void,” and is also now available as a digital single bundle. That bundle also comes with live tracks and more. You can read about all that in the below press release.
Press Release:
TARJA RELEASES DIGITAL SINGLE BUNDLE FOR
“AN EMPTY DREAM”
Today, Tarja surprises the fans that weren’t able to attend one of her many festival performances this summer by releasing a digital single bundle for her song “An Empty Dream”.
Says Tarja: “The song ‘An Empty dream’ was presented to me by the film director Mariano Cattaneo in Argentina. I gave it a listen, liked it and wished that I could work on it myself, in order to make it sound more like me. I rewrote the English lyrics after watching the movie and worked on the melodies. I also wrote the complete music for the middle 8 part. The movie version of this song is the vision of the composer and the movie director and the one you can find on my album is my vision of it. Just a bit different 🙂
We filmed a music video for the song in Buenos Aires at the same location where the movie itself was filmed. An old abandoned factory. Seriously a spooky looking and feeling space. I had the pleasure to work with the main actress of the movie, Ariadna Asturzzi, in the shootings and had a lot of fun with her and the rest of the film crew.
When I was thinking which song to add to this special single release from my latest album ‘The Shadow Self’, the song ‘Undertaker’ immediately came to my mind because it is a very score kind of song and I wrote it together with film composer Atli Örvarsson.
I had a big pleasure to visit Genelec’s Artist Room in Helsinki, Finland not so long ago. It was lovely to sing and record live and acoustically two very different kinds of songs, of which you can find the studio versions on my ‘The Brightest Void’ album. When I am singing these songs accompanied by acoustic instruments only, they become new to me and I really enjoy interpreting them all over again. It is interesting to see every time what is the outcome! I hope you enjoy these versions as much as I do.”
Having released not one but two studio albums in 2016, Tarja’s brand new digital single bundle revolves around “An Empty Dream” from her prequel “The Brightest Void”. The song that has been re-written and re-worked for the release of her studio album has its origin in the soundtrack of the Argentinean movie “Corazón Muerto”. The two versions, both different in their atmosphere, are included in the digital single bundle and, without a doubt, get under your skin with their gentle, romantic but yet horror movie feel.
Tarja’s crystal clear voice is only accompanied by a piano on the two beautiful, previously unreleased renditions of “House Of Wax”, a cover of Sir Paul McCartney’s overlooked gem, and her own “The Living End”. The stripped down versions have been recorded at the Genelec Artist Room in Helsinki, Finland this April.
The single bundle also includes one of Tarja’s favourite songs from the sequel album “The Shadow Self”, the delicious slice of symphonic metal “Undertaker”, as well as the official video to “An Empty Dream”.
The official music video for “An Empty Dream” can be watched on earMUSIC’s official youtube channel https://youtu.be/VkTzIEMlc38 as well as on the official album landing page http://www.tarja-theshadowself.com now.
With the release of the worldwide chart successes “The Brightest Void” and “The Shadow Self”, the versatile singer has followed up on the success of the multi-platinum and gold awarded previous records “My Winter Storm” (2007), “What Lies Beneath” (2010) and “Colours In The Dark” (2013) which charted all over the globe including 4 Top 10 entries.
Tracklist
1. An Empty Dream
2. An Empty Dream (Movie Version)
3. Undertaker
4. House Of Wax (Live At Genelec Artist Room)
5. The Living End (Live At Genelec Artist Room)
6. An Empty Dream (Video)
Tarja Turunen has released a new digital single for her track “Demons In You,” feat. Aliss White-Gluz (Arch Enemy). The single will also be available as a limited CD digipak on November 11 as well.
Track Listing:
01. “Demons In You” (with Alissa White-Gluz)
02. “Demons In You” (Tarja Solo Version)
03. “Demons In You” (Alissa Lead Vocals Version)
During her set at the Wacken Open Air festival yesterday (August 5), Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish) was joined onstage by Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy) for a performance of “Demons In You” Check out some footage of that below:
Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish) has premiered a new video for her new song “Innocence,” via Loudwire. This song is from her new album, “The Shadow Self,” which will be released on August 5. A prequel to the album, titled “The Brightest Void,” will also be released on June 3.
Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish) has premiered a new video for her new song “No Bitter End.” This song is from her new album, “The Shadow Self,” which will be released on August 5. A prequel to the album, titled “The Brightest Void,” will also be released on June 3.
Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish) has revealed that she will be releasing a prequel to her new album, “The Shadow Self,” which is set to be released on August 5. This newly announced effort, titled “The Brightest Void,” will be released on June 3, and will feature nine new songs.
Turunen said the following:
“Surprise, surprise! I genuinely hope that ‘The Brightest Void’ is a pleasant surprise to each and every one of you.
During the long process of recording the songs for my new studio album, ‘The Shadow Self’, I realized that there were so many tracks, too many too dear to me, for just one album. So this time I decided to keep nothing for myself and to share all my favorite new songs with you, the fans, who have shown such passionate and constant support.
‘The Brightest Void’ gives more than a first taste of ‘The Shadow Self’; it is a full album filled with nine songs!
I am sure that everyone will immediately discover how much ‘The Brightest Void’ and ‘The Shadow Self’ are entwined with each other but, at the same time, are two independent records which stand on their own.
I hope the release of the prequel sweetens the wait until August and that you will like the songs as much as I do. I will present songs from both albums already in summer festivals and in my headliner tour later this year.
As always, keep your eyes open. There might be further surprises down the road.”
“The Brightest Void” track listing:
01. “No Bitter End”
02. “Your Heaven And Your Hell” (feat. Michael Monroe)
03. “Eagle Eye” (feat. Chad Smith)
04. “An Empty Dream”
05. “Witch Hunt”
06. “Shameless”
07. “House Of Wax”
08. “Goldfinger”
09. “Paradise” (What About Us) (new mix feat. Within Temptation)
