Imaginaerum
Imaginaerum layers Nightwish’s orchestra, choir, heavy guitar and Anette Olzon’s voice into a fantasy narrative about dreams and memory.
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Track List
- Taikatalvi
- Storytime
- Ghost River
- Slow, Love, Slow
- I Want My Tears Back
- Scaretale
- Arabesque
- Turn Loose the Mermaids
- Rest Calm
- The Crow, the Owl and the Dove
- Last Ride of the Day
- Song of Myself
- Imaginaerum
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Liner Notes
Imaginaerum is a work on which NIGHTWISH layered orchestra, chorus, heavy guitar and Anette Olzon’s singing, drawing a fantastical story about dreams and memory. Each song has a scene change like film music, and the whole album advances as one great journey. Conceived together with a film of the same name, it is an ambitious concept album.
On “Storytime,” “I Want My Tears Back” and “Last Ride of the Day,” not only grand songs but also quiet melodies and amusement-park-like color deepen the narrative. Songs like “Scaretale,” “Turn Loose the Mermaids” and “Song of Myself” breathe the band’s full playing too. Taking in jazz and folk elements, they show more varied musicality than ever. It is an epic on which the scale and imagination of symphonic metal can be fully savored.