Nightwish's New Song Was Unexpected! 'An Ocean Of Strange Islands' Vocal ANALYSIS

An epic return to Nightwish's catalogue with one of their newest releases from the Yesterwynde album, out now! I had to wonderful opportunity to sit down with Floor Jansen for a Tea Time interview, and had to dive deep into where her sound is today. You are all in for a treat!

Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Nightwish's new album for the first time, and this performance of "An Ocean of Strange Islands”.
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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[chrismcmeekin]

Not only did she record her vocals six weeks after giving birth, Tuomas said he booked her for 2 weeks to complete the album and she did it in six days! What an extraordinary woman.

[BlackSheepTheMetalBand]

I saw nightwish live 3 times allways in the front row. On time i was so close to the scene and Floor has so much power that i could hear voice without amplification.

[gene]

Welcome back Elizabeth. This new Nightwish album is complex and amazing ❤

[luisnaranjovillegas]

Finally You Back To Nightwish....!!!
Long...Long Very Long Wait

[bobbycollins]

Listening to the whole album all the way throughout. Was like hearing a soundtrack to an epic fantasy movie
Especially the last track "Lanternlight
Which is the song that would play over the credits. And I'm sure that on repeated listens you will hear a lot more going on in the music.
This album may well go down as a rock classic. And should win awards

[SteveOpstad]

Lanternlight is an absolute must. It will stay with you always.

[Cadinho]

It's really crazy how they have developed over 25 years, their sound has evolved so much from their first album to their latest one and still you can somehow always tell it's Nightwish. Like there is something in the DNA of their music you can always find and that stayed the same during all these years.

Also, it's safe to say that the entire army needs to see/hear this one live.

[jpdemer]

Just that one word from Floor is better listening than 95% of the songs out there today.

[MelvinDickover]

Love your analysis. Tuomas said he used three orchestras on the album, a full 50 piece one, a small orchestra, and a chamber group, depending on what the song required. Probably not samples. The normal arranger of Tuomas's orchestral compositions, Pip, was ill, another person did it for YesterWynde. It's pronounced wined, from a 400 year old Old English song title, WesterWynde, about the West Wind. The voyage is travel through life, islands are the people you meet.

[alanfoster]

When I was in elementary school, we got boxes of crayons with 6-12 colors. That's most singers. A few years on, we got boxes with 64 colors.
Floor is a box of 64 colors.

[khahto]

The drums are played by me. No taikos etc so if you refer to that drumsection. Just me and my big drumkit. 😀

[MarcelVos]

This is so far my favourite song of the new album! It might change over time, but this song is just so beautiful with a perfect ending.

[makeityourself]

PLEASE react to Lantern light when you have time. I LOVE all your nightwish reactions🤘

[AronvanSelm]

All orchestra sounds are real and completely played and recorded by live orchestra, actually since the album Once. Tuomas definitely knows how to use samples for creating demos but as far as I know none of the orchestral samples end up on the actual recordings. Having that said, there are of course many other synth/keyboard sounds that are sampled or chosen by Tuomas. He also uses Korg Keyboards which have tons of amazing sounds pre built in.

[vvityeg]

Please please please react to the Lanternlight video! It is soul shakingly beautiful, and we would love to hear your reaction.

[renejensen]

This song is the journey of life, where you steer this ship with crowded sails to diffrent Islands, where each island represent a person you meet along, or a happening in your life, there is good islands and the more obscure islands, at the end with the pipe section, you react the final harbour, where you do not need to visit more islands, here you ancor up, the song could be taken diffrenly as the journey of the band as well, or a 3th option, for me its just this travel through life i get, its honestly a masterpiece of a song, proberly the best one from new album, love it!!

[ChesterGlover]

I can’t wait for lanternlight reaction

[johnlindquist]

So many things - Floor's voice, Kai's drumming, the orchestral parts, Emppu's guitar, Troy's pipes, Jukka's bass and of course Tuomas' keyboards and his amazing composition. This entire album is a true masterpiece.

[Asgeir_W]

What a time to be a nightwish fan 🤘🤘😃😃 new album, new reaction video from you, and your tea time chat with Floor to just top it all? Wow, I'm just so excited and happy right now 😃😃😃🎉🎉🎉

[doorofnight]

Extremely impressive, both the vocals and song in general and also that she did it so soon post-partum!