That is one of the three lyres found in the Royal Cemetery of Ur (excavated between 1922-1934.) It dates to 2550BC. It is in the collection of the British Museum - the other two are in the collections of the University of Pittsburgh and the Bagdad Museum. The music being played is from the “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” - an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C.
And the lyre has a clay pot right by its side in the vid. The Hurrian Hymn was found inside a clay pot, ”the very first song” written down for the generations to come.
I love your more technical analysis. I have no background in music myself and I love this kind of extra insight your commentary gives me into the song. I’m also subscribed to another reaction-channel by Chase Cameron. He does similor kind of reactions, he himself played in a band for years. He also listens with a different ear and can distinguish (is that the correct word?) the different layers in the song. You get so much more appreciation for the band and their abilities and ofcourse for Tuomas as a composer. I agree with another Nightwish-fan, he called Tuomas the Metal-Mozart of our time. Looking forward to your next reaction 😊
Greetings from Finland & thanks for this entertaining and informative analysis of the 1st track on Nightwish's new album. I've been a fan from the beginning with the album "Angels Fall First", and for me this new album is a refreshing & brave leap into something new & probably their best one so far. P.S. The string instruments you can see in this music video are called "The Lyres of Ur" or "Harps of Ur". They are considered to be the world's second oldest surviving stringed instruments & are more than 4500 yrs old.
Finally someone who sheds a light to Tuomas and his genious work with notes, thank you! Auri has very nice music, Johannas vocals are mezmerising. And you can not overlook Tuomas’ sideproject The Life and Times of Scrooge. New sub here, Nightwish fan since 1997.
Thank you for the sub! And yes Auri is beautiful music I hope they do more. I'm working on a instrumental cover of "A lifetime of adventures" from the life and times of Scrooge which i can't wait to share on here when its done! :)
StubbornOstin Nice! Will be waiting for to hear that. Tuomas told couple of weeks ago that he was writing new Auri music in the spring during lock down and they were recording it about a month ago. Looking forward to it too 👏🏻👏🏻
Great reaction! I have to differ with you on one part, though. In the first part of the song , where the tribal drums are playing, you said there wasn't music yet, and that the harp was the arrival of music descending on man. Part of the point if the intro was that music has *always* been here, that it is a force of nature. Man eventually learned to give it structure, but the pure force of nature that is music was always there, in the animal cries, rain, etc. Music benefitted from man's contributions to it, but didn't start with us. It's something we took and made our own. You did hit on that a little later in the reaction, but I think it is important to appreciate just how musical the natural world is!
Great reaction. Subbed. Will check out your previous 2 Nightwish reactions anon! At 15.04 mins into your video you mentioned you liked the images of vast nothingness. Well at the forefront of that image is the piece of jar like pottery that contained "Hurrian Hymn No. 6" considered the world's earliest melody! Nightwish don't do anything by chance. Every note, lyric and imagery has it's own purpose. That's the genius of Tuomas!
The "The Divje Babe Flute", a cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes, was found in 1995 in northwestern Slovenia. It is commonly dated to be around 55,000 years old.
The truth is there would not be Nightwish without Tuomas. He is really incredible music producer, Genius, Mastermind. No words to discribe his phenomenal talent. It seems that he does not want to be in the spotlight, he is such a humble.guy. He defenitely earns the title Metal Mozart 🤘👊🇫🇮
This was interesting. I think your abilities would be wasted if you make normal reaction videos. But with this format, we NW fans will learn more about our favorite band again! There are really a lot of these normal NW reaction videos, so this format would bring something more. Something very interesting. Johanna, Tuomas and Troy are already making another Auri album. Johanna updates the information on Facebook from time to time.
Love your new format. Keep it up. As a side note, in the future, please think about analyzing Tuomas' solo album, " The Life and Times of Scrooge". It's a great album.
I think you will love Ayreon. It’s symphonic/operatic metal. One guy, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, composes everything and then invites, very well known, rock and metal musicians to play a part on the album. Floor Jansen and Marko Hietala also participated. I suggest you start with ‘Into the electric castle’ or the live concert of that album ‘The electric castle live and other tales’ Avantasia is a similar project by Tobias Sammett.
Hey guys thumbs up if you like the new format of the videos! Id love to analysis and talk about some metal/symphonic metal I HAVE NOT heard and break it down as I react to it so PLEASE put your suggestions down below and consider following ill be posting a new Nightwish video every week :) Edit: You can now follow me on Insta @StubbornOstin :) Brand new page ill have lots more updates on there while not on here!
Absolutely I could! Although its not my area of expertise and I won't have much to offer in terms of explaining what she is doing or why. I think there are tons of great vocal coaches with channels who can talk about her better than I can. But that being said I can definitely talk more about how her vocals fit as an instrument rather than techniques she is using since i can't sing but have written vocal melodies for songs :) Thank you for the input!
Just wanted to chime in and say that you have my vote for including Floor’s voice as an instrument :) I think that would be the optimal way of doing it - totally excluding it would be a shame I think, because Tuomas really *does* use her voice like another instrument at his disposal.
I think the “want a tale in Major scale” is a reference to Harvest (at least the first half of the song ) as isn’t it in Major not minor scale as most Nightwish songs are ???
Totally subscribing, i'm all for this kind of breakdown of the more production/compositional aspects of Nightwish. From a production standpoint fitting a full orchestra with the distorted guitars, i get that they thin out the guitar to make room for the other string instruments... What are your thoughts on how they handle the bass? Because something i've noticed (and i could very well be wrong) is that sometimes it seems like they merge the bass and the guitar a little bit more than what you'd normally hear. Almost like they use distortion on the bass so it can serve two functions and bring out the guitars lower frequencies slightly? I can imagine it's no easy task for production, to have so many instruments & frequency ranges all dancing around each other like in your typical Nightwish track.
Thank you for the sub! :) And that's exactly what you're hearing actually its common in metal, especially in symphonic metal, to keep the low end of the bass clean and highly compressed to keep a consistent low end but distortion is added to the high end of the bass to not only help it blend better with the guitars and make it feel like 1 big instrument but also to get more of the beef and distortion you lose from the guitars in heavy orchestral mixes. I do this quite a bit on my personal stuff and this was done quite a bit on the album "Once" :)
I'm afraid I had the same dissability as you...Analysing every second of music you hear.. Trie to close your eyes and let the Music flow through you once in a while.. A bad habit is hard to unlearn, I know..
Tuomas is said like 'TOUR-muss' (without the R). Or you can say it the English way Thomas. But ThoMAS is the most alien to his native Finnish - we would spell that To Maas :)
Sure am! It'll be my first time seeing them live and if it doesn't happen I believe they are just moving it to the same date in 2021 so ill just hold onto the tickets till then. How about yourself? Also I'm originally from Acton haha small world!
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 nice. Ya it will be my first time seeing them live as well. Just discovered them last year. I'm originally from Woodbridge. Hope it's not postponed till next year but not much we can do if it is. You ever listen to the Canadian power metal band Unleash The Archers? If not, I suggest checking them out. Two good songs to react to are Tonight We Ride and Awakening. They also released a couple new ones the past month Abyss and Soulbound.
@@Z_TPI I know OF them but I've never actually heard anything by them and I did not know they were Canadian! That's pretty cool I'll have to do a video reacting to them and dive into that rabbit hole too! :)
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 Awesome. They aren't 100%power metal either. They genre blend as well, so if one song doesn't hit home, they have plenty others that may. Obviously to each their own, music is subjective. Looking forward to your future content, whomever the band may be 🤘
I am! I compose music for tv and film licensing mostly. Usually in the rock/metal genre and usually mix orchestral music with it. Which is why I love symphonic metal!
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 Could you do me and the other Nightwish fans a favor, please? If there are some NW stuff or some stuff from Floor that you haven't seen yet could you do reaction videos out of them? Have you seen all the Nightwish documentaries? I am asking that, because I'm sure that there would be tons of us that would jump out of joy seeing those reaction videos =)
It's not 'tribal drums'. It's a suggestion of drums coming from a tribal 'society'. And music doesn't desend upon man but comes from within us. Except maybe when your hit by a falling speaker, providing there's music coming out of it when it hits you. But you're Canadian, so I'll give you the advantage of the doubt.
@@JimmyRJump Keep it, Pretty sure I'll live :) You're taking what I said WAY too literally. When I say tribal drums I mean the overall feel, tempo, tone of the piece that was written was very tribal.. Unless it sounded kinda Jazzy to you? ;) Doesn't matter if they used a big expensive studio in London to record the percussion or got Kai out in the woods with animal skin stretched over a hollowed out tree stump. Its about context. So if by suggestion you mean giving that feel and experience regardless of what was used to record it.. Then yes, they have used pots and pans and other random metal objects to create sounds all over Endless Forms, but I can pretty much promise if Tuomas wanted that authentic sound in there, they weren't using expensive trailer style drums to do it. To me its not a suggestion if that's clearly the feel and vibe that was put in front of me. I don't need it recorded out in the wild performed around a large fire for it to be called tribal.
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I really liked this and it’s about time Tuomas had his time in the limelight.
That is one of the three lyres found in the Royal Cemetery of Ur (excavated between 1922-1934.) It dates to 2550BC. It is in the collection of the British Museum - the other two are in the collections of the University of Pittsburgh and the Bagdad Museum. The music being played is from the “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” - an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C.
And the lyre has a clay pot right by its side in the vid. The Hurrian Hymn was found inside a clay pot, ”the very first song” written down for the generations to come.
I love your more technical analysis. I have no background in music myself and I love this kind of extra insight your commentary gives me into the song. I’m also subscribed to another reaction-channel by Chase Cameron. He does similor kind of reactions, he himself played in a band for years. He also listens with a different ear and can distinguish (is that the correct word?) the different layers in the song. You get so much more appreciation for the band and their abilities and ofcourse for Tuomas as a composer. I agree with another Nightwish-fan, he called Tuomas the Metal-Mozart of our time. Looking forward to your next reaction 😊
Greetings from Finland & thanks for this entertaining and informative analysis of the 1st track on Nightwish's new album. I've been a fan from the beginning with the album "Angels Fall First", and for me this new album is a refreshing & brave leap into something new & probably their best one so far.
P.S. The string instruments you can see in this music video are called "The Lyres of Ur" or "Harps of Ur". They are considered to be the world's second oldest surviving stringed instruments & are more than 4500 yrs old.
Just subbed yesterday... A member of the NW Army reporting. :) Your line in the title, "This is Genius Writing!!" - that sums up 1 aspect of Tuomas.
Apparently the first sound is the "sound of the Universe" courtesy of NASA
Tuomas is planning another AURI album.
Finally someone who sheds a light to Tuomas and his genious work with notes, thank you! Auri has very nice music, Johannas vocals are mezmerising. And you can not overlook Tuomas’ sideproject The Life and Times of Scrooge. New sub here, Nightwish fan since 1997.
Thank you for the sub! And yes Auri is beautiful music I hope they do more. I'm working on a instrumental cover of "A lifetime of adventures" from the life and times of Scrooge which i can't wait to share on here when its done! :)
StubbornOstin Nice! Will be waiting for to hear that. Tuomas told couple of weeks ago that he was writing new Auri music in the spring during lock down and they were recording it about a month ago. Looking forward to it too 👏🏻👏🏻
Great reaction! I have to differ with you on one part, though. In the first part of the song , where the tribal drums are playing, you said there wasn't music yet, and that the harp was the arrival of music descending on man. Part of the point if the intro was that music has *always* been here, that it is a force of nature. Man eventually learned to give it structure, but the pure force of nature that is music was always there, in the animal cries, rain, etc. Music benefitted from man's contributions to it, but didn't start with us. It's something we took and made our own. You did hit on that a little later in the reaction, but I think it is important to appreciate just how musical the natural world is!
Great reaction. Subbed. Will check out your previous 2 Nightwish reactions anon! At 15.04 mins into your video you mentioned you liked the images of vast nothingness. Well at the forefront of that image is the piece of jar like pottery that contained "Hurrian Hymn No. 6" considered the world's earliest melody! Nightwish don't do anything by chance. Every note, lyric and imagery has it's own purpose. That's the genius of Tuomas!
Love the info that's awesome! Thank you :)
The "The Divje Babe Flute", a cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes, was found in 1995 in northwestern Slovenia. It is commonly dated to be around 55,000 years old.
Thank you for that! That's so damn cool!
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 You're very welcome :)
Thank you... your comments help me a lot to make sense of the music... really nice.
I love this song so much. Love to hear you talk about it.
The truth is there would not be Nightwish without Tuomas. He is really incredible music producer, Genius, Mastermind. No words to discribe his phenomenal talent. It seems that he does not want to be in the spotlight, he is such a humble.guy.
He defenitely earns the title Metal Mozart 🤘👊🇫🇮
WAUW, you did a good job. I also heard the other songs in this song you explained it very well thanks
This was interesting.
I think your abilities would be wasted if you make normal reaction videos. But with this format, we NW fans will learn more about our favorite band again! There are really a lot of these normal NW reaction videos, so this format would bring something more. Something very interesting.
Johanna, Tuomas and Troy are already making another Auri album. Johanna updates the information on Facebook from time to time.
Love your new format. Keep it up. As a side note, in the future, please think about analyzing Tuomas' solo album, " The Life and Times of Scrooge". It's a great album.
Great album. Terribly overlooked and underrated!
Tuomas Holopainen.Kiitos.
Nice and deep analysis of this opening track....waiting to listen to next.
I think you will love Ayreon. It’s symphonic/operatic metal. One guy, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, composes everything and then invites, very well known, rock and metal musicians to play a part on the album. Floor Jansen and Marko Hietala also participated.
I suggest you start with ‘Into the electric castle’ or the live concert of that album ‘The electric castle live and other tales’
Avantasia is a similar project by Tobias Sammett.
Thank you so much, I enjoyed watching this through your eyes. Please do Shoemaker
Hey guys thumbs up if you like the new format of the videos! Id love to analysis and talk about some metal/symphonic metal I HAVE NOT heard and break it down as I react to it so PLEASE put your suggestions down below and consider following ill be posting a new Nightwish video every week :)
Edit: You can now follow me on Insta @StubbornOstin :) Brand new page ill have lots more updates on there while not on here!
Wait for you next video. Your video is really interesting
Thank you :) My video for Noise was out yesterday you can find that on my channel too and I'll be doing the rest of the album over the next few weeks!
Thank you for doing analysis instead of mere reaction.
I've heard that Floor asked Tuomas where she would breathe.
In my opinion you should also comment on Floor's vocal, as on this album I feel like Tuomas is really using her as another instrument.
Absolutely I could! Although its not my area of expertise and I won't have much to offer in terms of explaining what she is doing or why. I think there are tons of great vocal coaches with channels who can talk about her better than I can. But that being said I can definitely talk more about how her vocals fit as an instrument rather than techniques she is using since i can't sing but have written vocal melodies for songs :)
Thank you for the input!
Just wanted to chime in and say that you have my vote for including Floor’s voice as an instrument :) I think that would be the optimal way of doing it - totally excluding it would be a shame I think, because Tuomas really *does* use her voice like another instrument at his disposal.
I think the “want a tale in Major scale” is a reference to Harvest (at least the first half of the song ) as isn’t it in Major not minor scale as most Nightwish songs are ???
You might be on something. Whole song is littered with references to the songs in the album.
I have no idea how can Floor remember all this lyrics
Totally subscribing, i'm all for this kind of breakdown of the more production/compositional aspects of Nightwish. From a production standpoint fitting a full orchestra with the distorted guitars, i get that they thin out the guitar to make room for the other string instruments... What are your thoughts on how they handle the bass? Because something i've noticed (and i could very well be wrong) is that sometimes it seems like they merge the bass and the guitar a little bit more than what you'd normally hear. Almost like they use distortion on the bass so it can serve two functions and bring out the guitars lower frequencies slightly? I can imagine it's no easy task for production, to have so many instruments & frequency ranges all dancing around each other like in your typical Nightwish track.
Thank you for the sub! :) And that's exactly what you're hearing actually its common in metal, especially in symphonic metal, to keep the low end of the bass clean and highly compressed to keep a consistent low end but distortion is added to the high end of the bass to not only help it blend better with the guitars and make it feel like 1 big instrument but also to get more of the beef and distortion you lose from the guitars in heavy orchestral mixes. I do this quite a bit on my personal stuff and this was done quite a bit on the album "Once" :)
I'm afraid I had the same dissability as you...Analysing every second of music you hear..
Trie to close your eyes and let the Music flow through you once in a while..
A bad habit is hard to unlearn, I know..
thanks, good job
🙏🏻❤️
Great breakdown.
This was interesting :-)
Go for the streaming reaction, sounds like fun.
@@UCYz8-dLFKKr_uh7ncnFgVaQ"I really liked this and it’s about time Tuomas had his time in the limelight." I concur.
Awesome intro man!
Floor Jansen singing O’Holy Night in Finnish in 2016 while 6months pregnant
I would have guessed this was within temptation...
Tuomas is said like 'TOUR-muss' (without the R). Or you can say it the English way Thomas. But ThoMAS is the most alien to his native Finnish - we would spell that To Maas :)
Kamelot for another symphonic metal band.
Ha I'm from Brampton. You going to the Nightwish concert on Sept. 8th. If it isn't postponed?
Sure am! It'll be my first time seeing them live and if it doesn't happen I believe they are just moving it to the same date in 2021 so ill just hold onto the tickets till then. How about yourself?
Also I'm originally from Acton haha small world!
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 nice. Ya it will be my first time seeing them live as well. Just discovered them last year. I'm originally from Woodbridge. Hope it's not postponed till next year but not much we can do if it is.
You ever listen to the Canadian power metal band Unleash The Archers? If not, I suggest checking them out. Two good songs to react to are Tonight We Ride and Awakening. They also released a couple new ones the past month Abyss and Soulbound.
@@Z_TPI I know OF them but I've never actually heard anything by them and I did not know they were Canadian! That's pretty cool I'll have to do a video reacting to them and dive into that rabbit hole too! :)
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 Awesome. They aren't 100%power metal either. They genre blend as well, so if one song doesn't hit home, they have plenty others that may. Obviously to each their own, music is subjective. Looking forward to your future content, whomever the band may be 🤘
TOO-oh-mas. 3 syllables...don't cheat him out of that extra one, he's worked hard for it :).
Wow, great reaction! Are you musician yourself? A composer perhaps?
I am! I compose music for tv and film licensing mostly. Usually in the rock/metal genre and usually mix orchestral music with it. Which is why I love symphonic metal!
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 I could tell / guess it from your comments. Much love from Funland (Finland)!
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 Could you do me and the other Nightwish fans a favor, please? If there are some NW stuff or some stuff from Floor that you haven't seen yet could you do reaction videos out of them? Have you seen all the Nightwish documentaries? I am asking that, because I'm sure that there would be tons of us that would jump out of joy seeing those reaction videos =)
@@Spugedelia77 Only thing I can think of is I never looked up the movie that was made with the Imaginaerum album so I've never seen that.
It's not 'tribal drums'. It's a suggestion of drums coming from a tribal 'society'. And music doesn't desend upon man but comes from within us. Except maybe when your hit by a falling speaker, providing there's music coming out of it when it hits you. But you're Canadian, so I'll give you the advantage of the doubt.
Oh, sorry.. *Edit: Zero drums were used in the making of this song, only the suggestion of drums!* 😂 No wonder its hard to follow the beat lmao
@@stubbornostinmusic2540 The suggestion was of the drums being tribal. You just lost your advantage of the doubt.
@@JimmyRJump Keep it, Pretty sure I'll live :) You're taking what I said WAY too literally. When I say tribal drums I mean the overall feel, tempo, tone of the piece that was written was very tribal.. Unless it sounded kinda Jazzy to you? ;) Doesn't matter if they used a big expensive studio in London to record the percussion or got Kai out in the woods with animal skin stretched over a hollowed out tree stump. Its about context. So if by suggestion you mean giving that feel and experience regardless of what was used to record it.. Then yes, they have used pots and pans and other random metal objects to create sounds all over Endless Forms, but I can pretty much promise if Tuomas wanted that authentic sound in there, they weren't using expensive trailer style drums to do it. To me its not a suggestion if that's clearly the feel and vibe that was put in front of me. I don't need it recorded out in the wild performed around a large fire for it to be called tribal.
This album is more Auri than Nightwish, my least favorite from them.
Imaginaerum is their best.
No way, Once is best followed by this album.