Opera Singer/Vocal Coach REACTION & ANALYSIS | Nightwish - Lanternlight

[@PeterBarber]

I cannot believe how long it's been since I've watched Nightwish -- what an experience it is to be back with this magnificent group! What do I need to check out from them next?

[@marianneskaf5417]

Shoemaker 🤩!

[@tiinanyrhinen6255]

Slow love slow! It's not their latest songs, but shows another different style of music this amazing group has done.

[@clemenstremens1940]

@@PeterBarber The song that is attracting more reactors with a compositional background than usual is “An Ocean Of Strange Islands”, fascinating stuff….

[@hansbeeker6612]

@@marianneskaf5417 at Pinkpop live

[@mangalover0149]

An Ocean of Strange Islands! The lyric video is so good.

[@NeilThompson]

It's not Tuomas singing - he's the keyboardist, band leader, and primary composer for Nightwish. The singer is Troy Donockley, the band's multi-instrumentalist and current backup singer.

[@jasonmarshall7572]

Troy lending his vocals like he's done with other Nightwish songs. One of my fav's is the acoustic version of how's the heart sung by Floor with Troy plaing guitar and backing vocals

[@silverblack5475]

Welcome Back Peter .....the Queen has been awaiting your return .......fantastic commentary on the music and Floor as usual " An ocean of strange islands " off the new Album is amazing, one of Nightwish's best songs , youll have a great time with that one

[@deeteenw]

I concur

[@frankmerris8821]

Honestly my all time favorite song in my 63 years

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Floor recorded her parts in her home studio only 6 weeks after giving birth to her second daughter. She said she barely could stand and after every song she would go to her newborn to clean and feed, whilst the other Nightwish members did the mixing. Rinse and repeat until all the lyrics were recorded.

[@youaremysecretstream]

Next maybe The Weave😍The beauty of this song rises like an eagle and rises again within the lyrical/thematic context of this album❣️ Thank you Peter❣️ But if you like film scores you always must come back for Nightwish!

[@tarmotyyri6733]

Thanks for sharing your reaction to a song that Tuomas wrote to celebrate the life of his father who passed away in 2021. For me it empowers us to recognize our connection to nature and one another, ultimately signifying that even in times of uncertainty, despair & sorrow, there is beauty and hope to be found under the glow of the lanternlight. This song is so emotional, that they needed several takes to record Floor's vocals as she started crying over and over again. P.S. Their new album "Yesterwynde" is a sonic masterpiece.

[@kimmikke_]

Long wait pays off, finally the Maestro, the Mr. Voice is reacting to Nightwish and offers his professional insights and opens a lot of the Symphonic techniques to us all. LOVED this Reaction, please continue on Nightwish reactions.

[@JeffTiberend]

I was so excited to see that you were going to do a reaction to this song. Thank you so much! I really hope that Floor does more songs like this on this softer side. I just completely love it!

[@okiejohn3925]

I'm not sure my emotions can handle more!😭

[@Rackelhane]

Beautiful song by Nightwish. This is the last song on their album Yesterwynde. By the way..Floor is pronounced Floor..like a floor you walk on. It's a dutch name..meaning flower. Thank you for reacting to Nightwish. Cheers from a finn in Sweden.

[@Aenea-de9vy]

Tuomas is a genius and Floor is a goddess! The male singer is Troy.

[@black4pienus]

This song has been stuck in my head for weeks. It's so beautiful.

[@user-Rockmagix]

My personal song of the year 2024. Top 3 in my NW rating. Whatever guard you have up, when Floor's voice comes in she cut's thru it like a fresh sharpened butcher knife and get's you right into your soul and while your bleeding out you feel satisfied. When Floor goes into her emotional mode you can sleep in the finnish winter outside in the woods and still be warmed by her voice and feel comfortable. Much Love from Germany to you and your passionate reactions!

[@mattihopiavuori353]

Peter, Obvious to me now! What the world needs is a duet by 🫵 & Floor - that my friends would be out of this universe! DO IT 🙏 Great insight and reaction, as always 🫶

[@PeterBarber]

That would be so cool!

[@mdudley52]

Troy is the singer,Tuomas is the mastermind of the compositions of Nightwish

[@tiinanyrhinen6255]

The male voice is Troy Donockley. He's been singing more since Marko left. Tuomas has sung only once, in their very first album, Angels fall first, but then decided not to do it ever again.

[@riikaasaa]

I've been waiting for this reaction video. Finally! 😊

[@anssia3123]

About the song structure: It's worth reading the lyrics, because often, especially in the more recent albums, the lyrics explain some of the musical choices that have been made. In this song it's everywhere. How Floor's vocal decisions reflect the emotions in the story, how the surprising piano section acts as a transition, how the mood changes along the way... Tuomas is a storyteller, and music is how his stories come to life.

[@ecbftl]

You know Elizabeth of the Charismatic voice. Floor had a nice long Tea Time talk with Floor including chating about the recording of this album.

[@Bonovin]

Thank you for a fine reaction ! Troy Donockley sings the male part . Tuomas Holopinen is the song writer to almost all of the songs and writes the music too . Piano and keyboardplayer. Greetings from NW army . Sweden

[@billattercliffe8655]

"Yesterwynde "is the opening track for the album and is really a prelude for it. If you check it out you'll see how it links to "Lanternlight". "An Ocean of Strange Islands" is a song from the same album that I think you would find both musically and vocally interesting. It's probably the heaviest track on the album, but still has its lighter moments. Floor shows off her vocal agility, navigating very quick, long passages while maintaining her diction. BTW, her name is pronounced just like the English word "floor". It's the same in Dutch as it is in English.

[@clemenstremens1940]

@@billattercliffe8655 The “oo” in her name pronounced more like in “floating”

[@Klojum]

Tuomas has sung in the very, very beginning of Nightwish, but quickly found out it's better to let others do that in the band.

[@richardwest6358]

Last century !

[@RoccoDekker-u3n]

PERFECTION 🤘Gothic metal front women🤘 Nightwish- Floor Jansen 🎶 Draconian- Heike Langhans🎶 That everything fits together so well as a Jigsaw puzzle.

[@paigefoster375]

I love it that most of this song is in her lower range, and it's very low indeed. I believe she gets down to a D3. Her upper range is so well developed I had no idea her lower one was as well. Without the electric instruments does this qualify as an art song, like the ones often done in recitals? It has a wee bit of pop quality in the melody, but the arrangement doesn't sound pop at all. It reminds me a bit of Rachmaninoff. This is the first Nightwish song to make me cry.

[@lindakennamer2850]

This was so beautiful! Your analysis was great as always ;). It’s going on my playlist.

[@eTraxx]

Floor recorded this six weeks after giving birth to Lucy

[@ecbftl]

along with the rest of the album, over 6 days in her home studio with the Nightwish recording team who came to her to get it done within the 2 weeks they expected it to take.

[@andrelglinnenbank2856]

I love it that Floor changes from lead singer to backing for Troy a couple of bars before Troy even starts singing

[@Drinckx2]

Great response to this rather splendid song by Nightwish. It's my favourite track on the album. I would recommend that you get a new search engine as anything that suggests Tuomas as the singer, must be, at the very best, drunk. He did sing on some of the tracks on the first Nightwish album - it's really not his thing. The boy Troy Donockley - the famous Cumbrian multi-instrumentalist - is the only additional singer on this album from the band. Choirs are used on several tracks and some Tongan singers on one track, The Children of 'Ata.

[@Dianen65]

Great reaction, liked it a lot! I love this Beautiful ballad. The meaning of the song is also impactful. You have a great talking voice 😊

[@MrHorst71]

All that remains is a G to E minor ! (Song of myself)

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

Tuomas loves composing with an orchestra, he is a big Zimmer fan (and the name of his cat is Vangelis) If you watch/hear the intro of their Wacken 2013 concert: Zimmer! At the key change you noticed, the mood is also changing: from melancholic to hope. At that moment colors coming in.... The movie scenes in the background are to support that feeling of times that are not long ago but seem to be from another world. Some shots show her with two faces, one looking back like the god Janus (?) About (part of) the movie scenes in the background: I recognized pope Leo XIII and wiki is saying: "Leo XIII, who was born in 1810 and was thus 86 years old in 1896, is considered the earliest-born person ever to be captured on film. The images of him are well-known, and recently were enhanced and colorized on-line.” kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXq5gmBnqZ5lnqMsi=hXFM4fDfXhhyaWan

[@NickBR57]

I have played the album many, many times in each version and this is my favourite song. It has become one of my top 6 NW songs. Watch David K's analysis of the video, for explanation of much of the videography. The genre of this song is "Nightwish". There is no other. Floor articulating absolutely perfectly, you heat every "t". I love Floors low register best - but I think you should stick to lower registers, having an off key male singer over the top of Floor is not good. I encourage anyone to listen to the instrumental and the orchestral versions of the album. This song is just as moving in both versions if you are attuned to music. In fact all the songs reveal greater connections with older NW than you might at first hear from the full version. A similar sentiment is found in the previous track but one, Hiraeth. For info, Tuomas says the standout track is The Children of 'Ata. He also thinks the album is best heard from start to finish in order. I think I agree as it has what in classical music we might refer to as a cyclic . architecture One reviewer said: "Lanternlight" plays the role of concluding tear-jerker, but with a sincerity and finesse that gently reinforce the humanistic thrust of this whole record. Tuomas also says: "The whole theme of the album is time, history, humanism, mortality. And it has a really optimistic vibe going through it all." - I think that time and history element comes out strongly in this song. About Floor's voice: Personally I have always thought (unlike many) that Floor's lowest register, though she says it is most difficult for her, really shines as my favourite part of her range. It is like velvet. But when she first changes to the high register, after all that low register, it really hits and is a "tingle factor" moment for me. Troy is a perfect complement in this song, both in harmony and in his lead vocal at the end . Just a gorgeous, beautiful, heartrending song. This song is a love song to our forefathers - Tuomas started writing the album in Jan 2021 and his father died 6 Feb only a few short weeks later. This song is latgely inspired by that but the whole album is about our links to the past. So this one is full of references to past albums and other songs on this album. Its sbout all our ancestors still being with us: atoms and molecules recycled into the streams, the trees, the moss under your feet, the pebbles, the oceans In other words, the sort of lyricism I only find in Tuomas and in Jackson Browne.

[@monolit73]

Happy New Year! And good news! From October to December, Diana Ankudinova took part in the show Avatar. This show is similar to the show The Masked Singer, but instead of costumes, the artists are covered in sensors and are in a room behind the stage and control digital avatars. Diana performed in the avatar of the Firebird and WON, no one recognized Diana for 9 episodes. The culmination of the performance was the Firebird's performance to the song by Yma Sumac - Taki Rari, where Diana demonstrated fantastic vocals and record-breaking high notes (dramatic contralto and G#6🤯). Videos in better quality with English subtitles are provided by KWstas Vagias.

[@Skybolt211]

Hey, Peter! Very nice video! Thanks for not having it Premier in a month and a half. ;-) AND... I know you'll get a lot of this, but she pronounces her name like it looks. Like an actual 'floor.' Or do you say, "I need to vacuum my fleers"? In that case, carry on, brother. And her last name is pronounced Yonson... but I'll keep watching your NW videos either way. Or maybe you're doing like Suite Clarity... when they react to NW, they say "Jansen" on purpose, just to inflame the hardcores. 🤣

[@jompuusi]

Greetings from Finland 🥰

[@ikdus3164]

everything

[@larryd4352]

At the end of the song, it's Troy Donockley. He has a very distinct voice that I really love! I love his song on the Album titled, Human :: Nature titled "Harvest!" Troy plays multiple instruments ( the Nightwish Army has a little saying about Troy, "What instrument does Troy play?" The answer is "Yes! ) As a guy who sang in a traveling Choir in the late 1970" to early 1980"s! It was easy to find me, as I am 6'6" and sang, what my mother called, a Basso, and had recently injured my left knee playing contact sports. So I had a stool to sit on so my leg wouldn't collapse on me! It was lots of fun! I actually regretted not going back to my University to get more training as even at 67 years young, I love to sing!

[@jpsother1183]

He doesn't play Hockey.

[@richardwest6358]

Her name is FLOOR - not FLEER - its not hard !

[@Kiwi88ize]

Oooh, you need to check out Ayreon! Both Floor and her sister Irene have made songs with Arjen Lucassen. Progressive metal at it’s best! 🤩 So many amazing singers came together, Devin Townsend is one of them 😉 ”Loser” from ”the human equation” great album, it’s a whole story 😍

[@jurgenbruin3207]

Floor rhymes with more...

[@elvwood]

A lot of my favourite songs by Paul Robeson (one of my singer heroes) are recitals with just his voice and Lawrence Brown's piano. Having said that, the point where this song always gets to me (if it hasn't already) is when you have the orchestral build, round about the time you were talking about genre - I am that easily affected by the emotional manipulation of the moment. Great reaction, ta!

[@-R-884]

Tuomas is a genious.

[@kajlax1554]

Tack!

[@olagsanger7436]

"Fascinating"..: )

[@richFilosa-pr9bw]

Troy. Marvelous

[@hansblink]

the singer is troy

[@eiwity13]

🎶🎶💕🎤🎶🎶👏👏

[@gigjoeSweden]

She does occasionally belt up to G#5 so yes, C5 is a walk in the park.

[@notvochkin]

Troy

[@clemenstremens1940]

Your humming through the song reminds me of Glenn Gould 🙂

[@user-Rockmagix]

The singer is Troy - the multi instrumentalist, Tuomas never sings.

[@renejensen7799]

Never is not true, he did on first album, but also swore, never to repeat that, and he didnt..

[@sonjajankov1361]

Wonderful! Can't wait. If you happen to run out of versatile artists for reactions, I would appreciate your thoughts about Lisa Gerrard's singing (Sacrifice, for example)

[@KathleenChilds]

🤗❤️🎶

[@jarnojuhani8942]

😍😍😍😍

[@morbiouslenoir]

That's Troy, with the Welsh accent. Tuomas doesn't sing, for good reason as he says. And his Finnish accent is quite different from Troy's accent.

[@merqury5]

Come one, more. Het those views and challenge yourself a bit.

[@schout33]

You still have some misconceptions about Floor. First her name is Floor not Fleur. She definitely is not a opera singer turned metal singer. After graduating from the then new 'Rock Academy' at Tilburg, The Netherlands in 2003, she studied 2 years at the Conservatory (1 year opera and 1 year music theatre while performing with her first symphonic metal band 'After Forever', which she joined at the age of 16 in 1997. She can do it all from full opera to death growls. She calls herself a musical nerd alway seeking to fill her already overflowing musical toolbox.

[@masterrubyan2976]

Troy Donockley

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

I would much rather listen to the first 7 albums. The last 3 have stunk

[@iainmackie6421]

You've heard her many times now - so why can't you pronounce her name properly? the J in Jansen is soft - therefore it is pronounced Yansen. It may seem like I'm being pedantic here but, I would believe that you actually liked her (rather than doing it for the likes) if you bothered to get her name right. The USA is the most multi cultural country on the planet, but the most useless with language. Sorry, but you need to do better.

[@PeterBarber]

Okay

[@okiejohn3925]

Also, her first name is Floor just as it is spelled (like the opposite of the ceiling) not Fleur...but I'm not gonna beat him up over it 😀