Fugazi Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World (Human. :||: Nature. 2020) All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Vista All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Blue All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - The Green All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Moors All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Aurorae All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Quiet As The Snow All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Anthropocene (incl. “Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal”) All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Ad Astra YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EagLsFGJIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cepe4Q6d8Cg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb7SZfO98C0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8HM7vzU5rw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVryEboMof8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljLNVVktYB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx-BnTqGq5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiojddlKcAE (album version); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VshpPBBehxE (World Land Trust video) Lyrics: Vista “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more” The quote is from Lord Byron’s "Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage" poem, read by Geraldine James. Quiet As The Snow Quiet as the snow Repeated in various languages, by Floor Jansen. Ad Astra “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam That's here. That's home. That's us.” The quote is from "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space", a book by Carl Sagan (1994), read by Geraldine James. From the band: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 This is probably a good place to post this. Nightwish Reserve? 👀 An interview with Finnish metal band Nightwish, WLT’s newest Ambassadors 02/12/2022 https://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2022/12/nightwish-interview-wlt-ambassadors/ We are delighted to announce that Nightwish are now official World Land Trust Ambassadors, joining fellow high-profile supporters like conservationist Lee Durrell, zoologist Mark Carwardine, and Emmy-nominated composer and singer-songwriter Sarah Class. Our relationship with Nightwish began in 2019, when we first talked about collaborating and lead singer Floor auctioned a personal portrait from artist Lucas van de Wakker to raise money for WLT. The Nightwish-WLT partnership became official in 2020, when their generous donation allowed WLT partner Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG) to establish a new protected area in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda region. This area, now officially known as the Nightwish Reserve, protects an important tract of temperate cloud forest home to threatened tree species like the Mexican White Cedar. The weasel-like Tayra is found here, as well as three wild cat species (Puma, Jaguar and Ocelot) and the Crested Guan (a Near Threatened bird). GESG hopes the Big-footed Salamander will one day become the reserve’s flagship species; this amphibian, once classified as Possibly Extinct, was rediscovered nearby in 2017. Nightwish announced their support for WLT and GESG with the music video for Ad Astra, the final track on their latest album, HUMAN. :||: NATURE. Described by Nightwish as a “love letter to planet Earth”, the album follows on from Endless Forms Most Beautiful, the band’s eighth release, which drew inspiration from evolution, science, and the works of Charles Darwin. Two years on from the release of HUMAN. :||: NATURE. and the creation of the Nightwish Reserve, WLT CEO Catherine Barnard met up with band members Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley and Floor Jansen on the UK leg of their ongoing world tour. In the following conversation with Catherine, our new Ambassadors speak about why they support WLT, the influence of nature on their work, and how music can inspire us to protect the natural world. Why did you choose to support WLT? Tuomas: We found you initially through the work of [WLT Patron] David Attenborough. There’s a video of him talking about WLT, and immediately I felt that this is our thing – this is something we want to get into. Troy: We talked about it with the whole band and we were absolutely unanimous. Tuomas: There was also something special about this – I’ve been involved with charitable organisations for years and haven’t made my support public, but somehow this felt completely different. Floor: We want to raise awareness. We don’t need a medal for this – the reason we communicate our support is to inspire others and show that there are ways to make a difference. What I really like about WLT is the different approach: we’re not just going to “save the elephants”, we’re going to save their entire habitat, and also try to make sure the people living there are part of the project. Tuomas: We also see the results immediately, in a concrete way. We can see where the money goes and how it’s used to save habitats. Troy: Exactly. One of the major attractions about WLT is that it actually gets things done. Everything seems beautifully transparent to us. It really motivated us to get involved. How does your music play a role in making people care about the environment? Tuomas: Everybody is talking about saving the planet, but it’s really important to remind people why it is worth saving: the beauty and the love, and everything on this Planet Earth. When you think about it, us as artists, musicians, singers, we have the tools to bring that message, and especially with our last two albums, people have heard it. When they listen to a song like The Greatest Show on Earth, hopefully they will start to think that this is a pretty awesome place where we live, and what a privilege it is to be alive as a human being. Realise the beauty and do your part in making the world a better place, because there is hope for the future. Things are not as bad as they may seem, and there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic. How did your fans respond to The Greatest Show on Earth, a 24-minute track on Endless Forms Most Beautiful? Troy: I think they’d be disappointed if we didn’t address the theme at the scale that it needs. You couldn’t go from 3.7 billion years to the end of the solar system in three minutes, you really couldn’t. It’s a big subject but I think we managed to encapsulate it in those 24 minutes. Floor: For some people that was perhaps a whole new experience, while for others it was right up their alley. We’ve met so many people working in the natural world or the scientific world, who have had their minds blown by the lyrics, and how things came together. For others that perhaps are not as familiar with all this, it’s an opportunity for them to open their minds: they feel like a new world has opened, a new awareness, a love for the things we see every day and the wonders of the real world – not the fake world that we are trying to create all the time, whether that is in a fantasy or digital. We get reactions from all ages and nationalities. It has definitely inspired. Troy: It’s extraordinary the cultural barriers that have been crossed with this music. We get the most wonderful life-enhancing messages from fans telling us about the effect that the work has had on them. This is a huge privilege for us, because we aren’t preaching, we’re telling it like it is, the way we see it. In that respect, we’ve introduced the sciences to an audience that may not have been interested before. Tuomas: This happens all the time. Whenever we have signing sessions there are often young people there with copies of books like The Origin of Species that they want us to sign. We had Richard Dawkins appear on stage with us in 2015, and we told him we’ve probably signed more copies of his books than he has! How did you approach talking about science in your music? Tuomas: I truly think that if everyone understood the core of evolution, how it works, the world would become a much better place, because it’s such a beautiful process. This is what we’re trying to convey. Imagine that we all had a mother, who had a mother, who had a mother… all the way back through an unbroken chain of billions of years. For us to exist, that’s the only way it can possibly be. So just let that thought sink in and you will smile. What role does nature play in your songwriting and composing? Tuomas: It’s hard for me to think of an artist that doesn’t get inspired by nature. It’s the most inspiring thing there is. Floor: It’s not like you go for a walk in the woods, take a deep breath, and a melody comes to you. It’s everywhere all the time. If you are open to it, it soaks back into you. We are part of nature after all, even when we put ourselves in concrete cities and deprive ourselves of the joys of the wilderness. Nature is still there, it finds its way, even in cities where there will be a tiny seed that manages to grow. If you open yourself to it, it is a constant source of inspiration and also happiness, which feeds into the creativity. Is there anything you’d like to say to your supporters that may inspire them to leave a legacy for the Earth? Tuomas: Education is everything. Troy: Absolutely. Read, read and read. Read as much as you possibly can. Get outside as much as you can. Turn off your screens, look at the night sky, wander around in a forest, just do all the lovely things that can take you out of the darkness that a lot of people live in, battered by social conditioning. There’s so much beauty in the world, so much power, so much to be grateful for. Floor: The pandemic maybe brought new perspectives and slowed people down, forcing them to live at a slower tempo, which actually gives you more time to become creative again. Boredom can lead to creativity because there is new space in your head. Nature provides that too – to slow down in nature is a great way to reset yourself. Get outside, slow down and allow things to be, and refocus on the things that actually matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 There has been no mention on the 10th album of anything on the scale of All The Works Of Nature, so now with a couple of years of hindsight, what is your opinion on this type of extended orchestral piece on a Nightwish album? Myself I enjoyed the music, and I'll be forever glad that it provided us with Ad Astra, the memorable finale that works so well to close live shows. On the other hand, I'm a bit put off by the fact that this is not a band effort, but really Tuomas and an orchestra. All The Works Of Nature is integral to the band album, with Side A - Human and Side B - Nature. But it feels more like Nightwish :||: Tuomas than Human :||: Nature, and perhaps here the needs of art for art's sake have overridden the needs of the band -- and the fans? I'm on the fence -- I do like the whole of HN, and Tuomas will try anything once (eg. Imaginaerum movie) but do I want more of this? Probably not. We've been told about a heavier 10th album -- let's see what surprises Tuomas has in store this time. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 On 10/2/2023 at 10:33 PM, Fugazi said: There has been no mention on the 10th album of anything on the scale of All The Works Of Nature, so now with a couple of years of hindsight, what is your opinion on this type of extended orchestral piece on a Nightwish album? I have no issues with an orchestral piece on any of their albums. Growing up listening to classical music, I welcome any band that experiments with just orchestra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted October 5, 2023 Author Share Posted October 5, 2023 Fair enough. It's just that one might argue that the band hasn't been included in this particular experiment, except Floor for some bits here and there. 🙂 Curious to see how much orchestra will be a part of the upcoming 'heavier' album. They scaled down for Disc 1 of Human Nature but went full on with Disc 2. Will they return to the medium ground of EFMB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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