NIGHTWISH's Tuomas Holopainen Has

NIGHTWISH's Tuomas Holopainen Has "8 Songs Roughly Ready" For Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck Project





According to the official website
of NIGHTWISH mainman Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboardist has eight songs
"roughly ready" for his Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck project. "Only
two months until the demo studio," he says.





Holopainen recently talked about the roots of the project:


"It was back in 1999, during the Oceanborn tour, that I remember
first having the idea of writing a 'soundtrack' to my all-time favorite
piece of Disney comic, The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck, by Don
Rosa, the apparent heir of the almighty Carl Barks. This book has had
such an overwhelming effect on me throughout these years, and finally I
have the means and the time to make that dream a reality.


It all started with a story called Last Sled To Dawson, which was
published in a Finnish Donald Duck - magazine in the late '80's. It
instantly became one of my favorite Scrooge/Donald - stories and also
introduced Mr. Don Rosa to my Disney universe. This story is not part of
the actual Life And Times - opus, though, but 'a companion story', set
in between the chapters #8 and #9. Then when the massive 12 - chapter
piece was released in mid '90's I was completely and utterly hooked. It
was similar to reading The Lord Of The Rings as an eight-year-old, or
seeing Raiders Of The Lost Ark for the first time. Adventure, fun and
the strangely familiar feeling of home.


With Scrooge there was also a much deeper level hidden between the stories and the gags.





This is a book about life itself. What an unfathomable privilege it
is, what are the things that truly matter during our existence. It's
about the immense beauty of the world and its possibilities seen through
the eyes of a very relentless, honest and complex character. It's about
love & family, gain and loss, darkness & rebirth.


And on top of that, well, it's just your good old fashioned storytelling fun!


I have been twiddling around with certain themes for some months now
and have an idea for five songs. The demo recordings are scheduled for
May 2013, just before the festival season starts and we're off with
Nightwish again. The actual recordings then start in August - September
and should be finished by the end of the year, making a release during
the first half of 2014 a possibility.


Mr. Pip Williams has agreed to do the orchestral and choral
arrangements and we will use pretty much the same London session
musicians as we did on Imaginaerum. Troy Donockley will bring Scrooge's
Scottish origins to life with his pipes and whistles, and there will
also be a few more guest musicians and singers involved.


This journey is very, very dear and personal to me and I'm honored
to have Mr. Rosa's approval on the project. It'll be a beautiful
storytime, once again!"