Troy Donockley (Nightwish) Explains The Tapestry of "Yesterwynde"

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  • Опубліковано 16 лис 2024

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  • @thepredator666qc4
    @thepredator666qc4 Місяць тому +38

    Not an interview, a good old conversation between 2 genuine person, love it! Thx Pedro ;)

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому +3

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @paddydurkin2308
    @paddydurkin2308 Місяць тому +3

    Great interview pedro.. Troy for me is a master of his craft.. personally i love where nightwish have gone with this album, their evolution and direction is refreshing and brave.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @torpitsanas9010
    @torpitsanas9010 Місяць тому +28

    Thanks Pedro!. Excellent interview. You and Troy give great explanation to album sound world and mix. This should be kind of quide to listen album.😀

  • @akashvankessel1249
    @akashvankessel1249 7 днів тому

    That's a great interview Pedro. I must confess after your initial comments on the singles I was kind of done with you. But it is great you had your own journey with the album, took your time, and had the courage to change your mind. A talent not many people have. So kudos for that! I drop my frustrations now beneath the Lanternlight. And what a lovely human being Troy is by the way. The fabric of the conversation you had with him was love. I fely it and was touched by it. So thanks again. 🙏🏻🦋✨🔥

  • @Micha-th8fb
    @Micha-th8fb Місяць тому +22

    Great interview like always. You are professionalist. Richness of words you speaking is superb.

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому +3

      Thank you

    • @Micha-th8fb
      @Micha-th8fb Місяць тому

      @@APREACTS ;) I like Yesterwynde a lot. I think its their most Avant Gardic,eclecctic album in career.

  • @sabertoetiger2582
    @sabertoetiger2582 Місяць тому +22

    Really nice interview 👍🏼 You are both elevated to Finns in my books. Lots of love to both of you ❤️🇫🇮

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому +4

      Wow, thank you!

  • @kimmikke_
    @kimmikke_ Місяць тому +16

    Agreeing on your suggestion Pedro (if I may be so bold to use your name), Nightwish needs to play the "Yesterwynde" Album Live from start to finish - it will be their "Pink Floyd - The Wall" type of Concert - Damn, my hair on my arms just raised by the thought of it..

    • @ecbftl
      @ecbftl Місяць тому +1

      @@kimmikke_ With a live orchestra, choirs, and big video screens of course!!!

  • @chrisknapp6091
    @chrisknapp6091 Місяць тому +4

    The new album is already probably my favorite Nightwish album. Total banger.

  • @gerdavanegmond7057
    @gerdavanegmond7057 Місяць тому +12

    Thanks for this interesting interview Pedro 👍

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому +2

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @SRocks59
    @SRocks59 Місяць тому +9

    Great interview, thanks for that. I agree with your thoughts and I think this is Nightwish's best album so far.

  • @tommy8159
    @tommy8159 Місяць тому +8

    That base on this album is great. Great conversation thanks

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому +1

      Thanks for listening

    • @tommy8159
      @tommy8159 Місяць тому

      @@APREACTS its a must listen

  • @Piia2023
    @Piia2023 Місяць тому +10

    Thank you, one of the best chat with Troy.

  • @Nightwishlishus
    @Nightwishlishus Місяць тому +8

    Thank you Pedro for interview with Troy...Keep'em coming 🤘

  • @MarifromKuopio
    @MarifromKuopio Місяць тому

    Such great stuff! I love this! Hello to both of you from Finland!

  • @Triskaan
    @Triskaan Місяць тому +11

    After a few listens, gotta say Ocean, Mechanism, Children, Weave and Lanternlight are fire.
    Less sold on the other few songs at various degrees though there are great things in each.

  • @dejannightwish
    @dejannightwish Місяць тому +13

    Great interview i love it 🤘🤘🔥🔥

  • @paisa20
    @paisa20 Місяць тому +9

    Great interview ❤❤❤

  • @tur0v
    @tur0v Місяць тому +8

    Pedro you stole my thought exactly! Listening to the album for the 3rd time yesterday my main thoughts were that this album should be played e2e live! Was not maybe fully convinced after the singles either, but now i feel that mix is just perefect and it's the strongest album with Floor. I like e.g. 🥁 more on this album than perhaps with a couple of previous ones. :)

  • @adriansnow5087
    @adriansnow5087 Місяць тому

    I remember Troy from the You Slosh days, saw them many times around Leeds & York.
    Such a talented musician - so many cracking nights out...
    Love you Troy, "Let's go men....", what a Glorious Racket. 👍❤️

  • @jamesm6377
    @jamesm6377 Місяць тому +2

    Thanks Pedro.. .what a great conversation.

  • @JairCrawford
    @JairCrawford Місяць тому +5

    I'm currently at the part where y'all are talking about Sway. And where it lands on the album. The contrast of what came before it. And this is something, imo, that Nightwish has LONG been a master of. Those soft soothing ballads right after very heavy sections are like the calm after the storm. And it's one of my favorite things they do. They did it in EFMB with Our Decades in the Sun coming RIGHT after Yours is an Empty Hope. On Dark Passion Play, they did it by putting Eva RIGHT after Master Passion Greed. On Century Child, Forever Yours comes RIGHT after Slaying the Dreamer. And it always has such a great effect.

    • @Columbasta
      @Columbasta Місяць тому +2

      Floor about "Sway" (i.e. Tuomas going behind her back, inserting the Troy attachment):
      "For this track we didn't sing the vocal parts together [Floor & Troy]. When I heard it back later, all vocal parts were doubled all of a sudden. Tuomas' choice, and that's about all I'm willing to say about it. I resign myself to this ..//.. I wouldn't have done it this way. I think the track actually didn't quite benefit from the harmonies with Troy, but then again it's also kinda unique". - Floor Jansen (Aardschok Metal Magazine, Aug/Sept edition)

    • @JairCrawford
      @JairCrawford Місяць тому

      @@Columbasta Yes I had already heard about this.

  • @GhostSynergy
    @GhostSynergy Місяць тому +3

    Thank you for this conversation, the honesty and the questions 🫰🏻
    It was really insightful to hear from Troy why the mixing sounds the way it sounds, and I understand what they try to achieve.
    Though, since Floor wasn't as involved as she was in the previous records, I wonder if she is satisfied with the final result. I have a strange feeling that she doesn't (she hasn't said much in social media and she is very active)
    Once again, thank you 😄 I can rest in peace knowing that we still have Nightwish.

    • @omiq7761
      @omiq7761 Місяць тому

      Few live tours with her on the spotlight, and maybe she will have all the attention she needs. Hopefully she hasn't grown an ego after these years.

    • @GhostSynergy
      @GhostSynergy Місяць тому +2

      @@omiq7761 I wasn't talking about that, but whatever.

  • @williamadkins2170
    @williamadkins2170 Місяць тому +64

    Then there are the "holding on to the past" fans that aren't satisfied with any change, no matter how excellent it may be.

    • @Micha-th8fb
      @Micha-th8fb Місяць тому +7

      Im satisfied with new album

    • @harrystarink4425
      @harrystarink4425 Місяць тому +1

      I Concur

    • @Micha-th8fb
      @Micha-th8fb Місяць тому

      @@harrystarink4425 ??

    • @harrystarink4425
      @harrystarink4425 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@Micha-th8fbI think it's great😊😊🙏🙏🤘🤘

    • @Garbox80
      @Garbox80 Місяць тому +6

      I can understand some not liking this evolution, it IS quite different than Dark Passion Play etc.
      But I also wonder how people who know NW and how precise they are with how they want their songs to sound thought that the singles were badly mixed. For sure it was VERY different sound for me too, but I never questioned it in that regard. And now we know why; they are an element in the tapestry of Yesterwynde, not individual pieces.
      And also, it just requires active listening to hear what you want to pick up from that sound. Which wouldn't be bad for many to practice as it requires concentration and slowing down, focusing. There's always the Spotify top 10 POP list one can put on as a background music. This not that (to me at least).

  • @Donna-C
    @Donna-C Місяць тому +16

    Great Interview.
    Troy’s passion mirrors all the members of Nightwish.
    It’s terrific to hear his insights.

  • @ecbftl
    @ecbftl Місяць тому +5

    Thanks for this, from another Canadian. I hope some Nightwish spinoff's get to Canada. My wife would enjoy Floor's solo show or perhaps an Auri concert in Montreal.

  • @mill2326
    @mill2326 Місяць тому +1

    Great interview, really insightful!

  • @johndean7370
    @johndean7370 Місяць тому

    Great conversation. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you!

  • @pdutchie4924
    @pdutchie4924 Місяць тому +1

    I’ll be there if they play Yesterwynde from start to finish❣️

  • @Pelasgos14
    @Pelasgos14 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks my friend . Great conversation.

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @simonking5863
    @simonking5863 Місяць тому

    Great interview as always Pedro. I think this is the best Floor Jansen era Nightwish album. It’s unpredictable and sonically excellent imo . Cheers A&P 🤘

  • @ArtMateurMusic
    @ArtMateurMusic Місяць тому +2

    Muy buena entrevista!! felicitaciones!

  • @lillianekockritz2796
    @lillianekockritz2796 Місяць тому

    When I first listened to "Sway" I spontaneously said: OMG is this beautiful! But in my opinion the whole album is a masterpiece. I love the heavy and soft songs equally and I am glad that Nightwish still follows its own way and do not listen to the fans who do not want them to change. Great interview, thank you very much.

  • @k.l.7788
    @k.l.7788 Місяць тому

    Already bought the ticket to the Christmas tour. ❤

  • @aether13x69
    @aether13x69 Місяць тому +7

    I could listen to Troy all day long

  • @TerriPhillips-xs1oz
    @TerriPhillips-xs1oz Місяць тому

    I would love to see Auri in Toronto! I'm already saving up for my ticket.

  • @Spectre67Productions
    @Spectre67Productions Місяць тому +1

    I believe the next album is going to be a banger. The trilogy is complete. Time for face melting. Until then, enjoy Yesterwynde!

    • @petertapola8097
      @petertapola8097 Місяць тому

      I surely hope so. I've had enough of this "half of the album is almost silence".

  • @ImmortalDecember
    @ImmortalDecember Місяць тому +2

    "Enigmatic... richly coloured" - best descriptor of Yesterwynde
    Being practically raised by Nightwish for decades, I can tell you that growing up with the fandom is exactly like growing up with divorced parents. There is no winning with every album release.
    Let me put this shortly: if you love listening to their instrumental and orchestral versions of their albums, and prefer progressive music that experiments and surprises you, you will favour this new evolution. If you prefer their live versions, are mainly drawn to Floor's vocals including her solo, and love the Eurovision-esque catchiness found on EFMB... you may be sorely disappointed.
    And that's okay. No need to turn ourselves into the likes of Tool fans - the warnings of insufferable toxicity lol. It's just music, no need for combative resentment.

  • @vjPulp
    @vjPulp Місяць тому +1

    Troy talks about the reasons of not touring the album. According to him, one of the main reasons is that they are too tired and need a break. Floor said today in her interview with the Charismatic Voice, that they decided not to talk about the reasons and therefore she would not reveal any explanation. How is it that a band of this magnitude with a professional marketing team behind them does not have a consistent message when it comes to these kind of questions? I find that really strange.

    • @phm19880
      @phm19880 Місяць тому +1

      Nightwish has allways been kinda oddchild, untraditional or different with some of them decisions regarding announcements, pr etc..firing Tarja is example of that style with its open letters etc.
      I think Tuomas have deliberately act as an "dictator" or such regarding many things like that. It look like that more, if u think his comment in some interview where he said that he have won twice in "life lottery"; 1)He can live same small east Finnish village where he have allways live and spend childhood there but he still can travel the world..2) They as an band and him as composer have allways manage to keep their independence and there are no any person or manager from record label or from anywhere who trying to tell them what to do.

  • @Keverke54
    @Keverke54 Місяць тому +1

    Pedro ., Nice talking ! Keep up the good stuff , have fun , hope you can hang around and buy drinks for them !

  • @tapio7133
    @tapio7133 Місяць тому +5

    Good one! Love Troy!

  • @rallyenglish
    @rallyenglish Місяць тому +6

    @Pedro,
    Where this world is going to … you needing to treat drinks to millionaires? 😊
    After the treat, tell them you want your cut of the album. 😂👍

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому

      😁😁😁😁

  • @Rackelhane
    @Rackelhane Місяць тому +5

    Troy is brilliant!!! Great interwiew. Thank you!

  • @Jiipee81
    @Jiipee81 Місяць тому +1

    🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @linuxsauna
    @linuxsauna Місяць тому

    Thinking, if you take classic heavy metal and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles - i'd reckon one might have a reasonable concept on understanding "Yesterwynde". To me Tuomas is a Linux KERNEL for the full operating system Nightwish OS. Floor is the properly heated Sauna.

  • @simoncrowthet3928
    @simoncrowthet3928 29 днів тому

    I appreciate what you say and do buddy but the Album is something spiritual special after covi after we sleep sometimes on life

  • @carlearrye8473
    @carlearrye8473 Місяць тому +2

    Enjoyed that thank you😊 x uk

  • @johngriffin7255
    @johngriffin7255 Місяць тому

    I find the muddy mix accusations weird, I have a bog standard Denon system and the mix is clear! Is it a UA-cam, phone thing vs proper systems?

  • @NickBR57
    @NickBR57 Місяць тому +5

    At last an interviewer who understands the mix of this album. Do many people complain about it and cannot see past Floor not being more forward. It's not the point at all.
    Listen to the orchestral and instrumental versions and it becomes much clearer what it's all about.
    I love the orchestral versions.
    (I love Eva too.)

  • @suopo123
    @suopo123 Місяць тому

    The mix is better if you drink one more bottle of wine. Troy says.

  • @stubones
    @stubones Місяць тому

    It’s a brilliant album. I was more happy to spend my money on it.

  • @MikkoRantalainen
    @MikkoRantalainen Місяць тому

    I think nickname of Jukka should be spelled Jukkis instead of Yukis because it's a Finnish name and Finnish nickname.

  • @user-Rockmagix
    @user-Rockmagix Місяць тому +1

    I hope some of the wellknown haters of new nightwish take the time to listen to this exceptional interview. It might lower their temper down to a more serious level.
    Greetings from Germany

  • @goganconstantin5299
    @goganconstantin5299 Місяць тому +2

    I don't understand why u want to diminish Floor voice! 90% of the fans are listening to those stories because of her voice. They like to undermine themselves too much...

  • @basicguy5785
    @basicguy5785 Місяць тому +10

    "vocals being just another instrument".
    Maybe they intended that, but that doesn't make me like it. I'm not saying the songs are bad, but for me it all just turns into background music, rather than something I would pay attention to.

    • @APREACTS
      @APREACTS  Місяць тому +11

      I am not a fan either but I understand their artistic vision. Just because you understand the vision it doesn’t mean everyone has to love it. But i think it is important to understand what caused it

    • @Columbasta
      @Columbasta Місяць тому +2

      @@APREACTS It's a rather discernible trend across this NW "trilogy". Floor is slowly but surely being cut to size by Tuomas. There were some pretty serious discussions during the pre-prod of H:N already, to which Tuomas alluded quite offhandedly. With this album, Floor has finally started to push back (albeit still quite diplomatically, for a Dutchie).
      Just one quote as a pars pro toto: "If it were up to me, Troy might've been singing a bit less on the new album". - Floor Jansen (Aardschok Metal Magazine, Aug/Sept edition)

    • @omiq7761
      @omiq7761 Місяць тому +2

      I think it is just the vice versa, because there is no one dominant element, it requires more from the listener and you get the most out of it when just listening the album and not doing anything else - lay in bed with in-ears eyes closed. The Sway hit me in the gut after the bombastic first half of the album.
      Besides, who need Floors singing when you have Kai's drums, Emppu's guitars, the orchestras etc. She is good, but not better than the others. Another (critical) piece of the tapestry.

    • @basicguy5785
      @basicguy5785 Місяць тому +2

      @@omiq7761 Sure, I just feel that if you don't take advantage of Floor's talents to the fullest then you can just hire a "good enough" singer when needed.

    • @lanzarlaluna
      @lanzarlaluna Місяць тому +1

      Totally agree. Amazing songwriting on this album, but ironically their intention with the low volume of the vocals is actually distracting for me.

  • @SDB311
    @SDB311 Місяць тому +1

    I felt the same way about the singles. As an old Nightwish fan, they fell a bit flat. But in the context of the album they are amazing. The album overall is definitely in my top 5 NW albums after a bunch of listens. There are so many layers, and small sounds to hear on repeat listens..So good

  • @Columbasta
    @Columbasta Місяць тому +5

    Floor Jansen explains - in a very diplomatic way for a Dutchie - why she's not amused by Tuomas' overuse of Troy on Yesterwynde:
    "If it were up to me, Troy might've been singing a bit less on the new album". - Floor Jansen (Aardschok Metal Magazine, Aug/Sept edition)

  • @Erik_Wulf
    @Erik_Wulf Місяць тому +14

    Troy appreciation button:🤘👇👇👇👇

  • @lmbergamini
    @lmbergamini Місяць тому +7

    My only complain about the album: Floor's voice is a bit lost in the mix. Not an artistic choice I enjoy. Actually, it annoys me slightly and lessens the experience... but it is what it is.

    • @RolfMeyer-cl7ou
      @RolfMeyer-cl7ou Місяць тому +9

      Dont you hear the interviews. Floor sings not with the Orchestra, she sing IN the Orchestra.

    • @lmbergamini
      @lmbergamini Місяць тому +3

      ​@@RolfMeyer-cl7ouI hear. I just dislike it. 😊

    • @RolfMeyer-cl7ou
      @RolfMeyer-cl7ou Місяць тому

      @@lmbergamini Mmh, why?🤫

    • @lmbergamini
      @lmbergamini Місяць тому +4

      ​@@RolfMeyer-cl7ou Because I prefer a more traditional mix, like they did in Endless Forms Most Beautiful, that also has a massive orchestra. Floor's voice is not overpowering the other instruments in EFMB. It's actually low in the mix too, but it doesn't sound muffled.

    • @RolfMeyer-cl7ou
      @RolfMeyer-cl7ou Місяць тому +4

      @@lmbergamini How Troy said in an Interview. In other albums ,they play with the Orchestra. In Yesterwynde, they play in the Orchestra. I mean, this is a different . Grettings from northern Germany 🤘

  • @silverblack5475
    @silverblack5475 Місяць тому +12

    Troy please on the next album when Tuomas asks you to sing on it just politely decline and say " Tuomas thank you I'm honored that you want me to sing BUT we have one of the best singers on the planet so why even take a single lyric from her "

    • @MATCHLESS789
      @MATCHLESS789 Місяць тому +2

      But Marko is not in the band anymore? 😂

  • @vitorandrade1914
    @vitorandrade1914 Місяць тому +3

    😒😒😒😒😒

  • @KiroProstoto
    @KiroProstoto Місяць тому +6

    Sorry, but until you write a music that needs to be lead by a lead vocalist you need to make the singer to be easily heard. Your music is not a soundtrack, nor an opera, even that in the operas the vocals can be easily heard. All these bullshit explanations need to finally stop. It sounds bad and I don’t care if it was on purpose or not. The Floor voice is also not the only problem, the sound is muddy and artificial. Troy acts like Toumas dog that goes from an interview to interview to defend the mix… Orchestral music and operas were created for hundreds of of years, but all of a sudden NW starts to use an orchestra and blame everyone else for not being able to get it.

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 Місяць тому +5

      What needs to stop is people like you telling Tuomas what *his band* should do!

    • @KiroProstoto
      @KiroProstoto Місяць тому +4

      @@ChrisPage68no, it’s called criticism. No criticism = poor quality. This is the result of all the blindfolded NW fans for the past 7-8 years… If it sounds bad, Toumas needs to know that and improve it in the future. Until people like you are acting like that and love every song and decision the band does - even before it’s release - then the result is going to be the same…

    • @yester30
      @yester30 Місяць тому +4

      @@KiroProstoto "I don’t care if it was on purpose or not" is not criticism, it's a tantrum.

    • @KiroProstoto
      @KiroProstoto Місяць тому +2

      @@yester30doesn’t matter until valid

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 Місяць тому

      @@KiroProstoto It's not valid.

  • @keellorenz4709
    @keellorenz4709 Місяць тому +7

    He is ever in out of tune in the new album. And the new album is too much Auri oriented. And I don't care of all his reason, the mix sucks.

    • @cooperc4060
      @cooperc4060 Місяць тому +13

      And I don't think he gives a $#%&😂

    • @SRocks59
      @SRocks59 Місяць тому

      @@cooperc4060 I garee ... this troll will be banging his head against the wall here for the rest of his life. 😂

    • @JCMacLeod555
      @JCMacLeod555 Місяць тому +7

      Some cheese with your whine?

    • @Columbasta
      @Columbasta Місяць тому +1

      @@cooperc4060 Floor does: "If it were up to me, Troy might've been singing a bit less on the new album". - Floor Jansen (Aardschok Metal Magazine, Aug/Sept edition)

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 Місяць тому

      @@cooperc4060 Nor should he.

  • @davew459
    @davew459 Місяць тому +2

    Personally I think it's the worst album they've ever done it's even worse than last one which was terrible.

    • @iconfresh7406
      @iconfresh7406 Місяць тому

      Well, that's just your (very fucking stupid) opinion, man.

  • @ascensionenergetics85
    @ascensionenergetics85 Місяць тому +3

    The album needs to be remastered. Sounds like Nightwish but the mix is terrible. That has nothing to do with “evolution of the band.”

  • @Hitch-82
    @Hitch-82 Місяць тому +2

    Sorry but the album is the weakest to date , boring , uninspired , something like it has to be done , too bad

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 Місяць тому +6

      Nope. It's a masterpiece.

    • @Klojum
      @Klojum Місяць тому +1

      Well, that's just like YOUR opinion, man...
      And apparently you can do a much better job, so we love to hear your new music production very soon.

    • @Hitch-82
      @Hitch-82 Місяць тому +2

      @@Klojum And many others too .
      Since when the listener must be a professional to make criticism?
      Soccer fans must be professional players to say if a team plays bad ?
      Come on fanboy don't you cry because I hurt your feelings get over it the album is really bad .
      ,I love Nightwish since day one but I also have ears.

  • @olegoik
    @olegoik Місяць тому +3

    That man destroyed Nightwish!!!