Nighttime Birds
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| Studio album from The Gathering | ||||
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Publication |
1997 |
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| Label (s) | Century Media | |||
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
48 min 44 s |
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Siggi Bemm & The Gathering |
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Studio (s) |
Woodhouse Studios ( Hagen ) |
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Nighttime Birds is the fourth music album by the Dutch band The Gathering . It was released on June 6, 1997 via Century Media .
History of origin
It was recorded between February 17th and March 15th 1997 at Woodhouse Studios in Hagen . The recording was technically supervised by Matthias Klinkmann and Siggi Bemm, who also produced the album together with the band. The lyrics come from Anneke van Giersbergen, the music from the entire band.
Nighttime Birds offers powerful Gothic Metal with female vocals. It is the consequent continuation of the musical path begun on Mandylion and at the same time the last pure metal album by The Gathering, before the band turned to more progressive and electronic sounds and finally said goodbye to metal.
particularities
The "Third Chance" song was previously a year on the Adrenaline - EP released. For the Nighttime Birds album, the song was slightly rearranged. The title song was dedicated by Hugo Geerligs to M. de Haard-Versteijlen.
There was a Japanese-only version of the album in which the track list was supplemented by live versions of the songs Leaves and Eléanor , which originally came from the compilation Out of the Dark .
Track list
- On Most Surfaces (Inuit) - 6:55
- Confusion - 6:33
- The May Song - 3:44
- The Earth is My Witness - 5:31
- New Moon, Different Day - 6:06
- Third chance - 5:25
- Kevin´s Telescope - 3:23
- Nighttime Birds - 7:02 am
- Shrink - 4:02
Single releases
Kevin's Telescope (EP)
The song Kevin's Telescope was previously released as part of an EP . The EP contains the title track or the Dead Can Dance - cover In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated , a cover of the British band Slowdive and a demo - Remix of the also of Nighttime Birds coming "Confusion" that of the former Grobschnitt - Drummer Eroc was remixed. The EP has a much more progressive sound than the actual album and is therefore a musical anticipation of the follow-up album How to Measure a Planet? .
- Kevin's Telescope - 3:23
- In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated (Dead can Dance Cover) - 4:05
- When the Sun Hits (Slowdive Cover) - 4:52
- Confusion (Demo / Eroc Mix) - 7:14
The May Song (Single)
The May Song is the only subsequent single from Nighttime Birds . The title track is represented twice: in the album version and in a radio edit that is a few seconds longer. There is also a remix of Earth is My Witness and a version of Strange Machines recorded with the Metropole Orchestra , which originally came from the previous album Mandylion .
- The May Song (Radio Edit) - 3:49
- Earth is My Witness (Edit) - 4:12
- Strange Machines (With the Metropole Orchestra) - 6:22
- The May Song - 3:43