The Crow, the Owl and the Dove
| The Crow, the Owl and the Dove | |
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| Nightwish | |
| publication | 2011 |
| length | 4:10 |
| Genre (s) | Symphonic metal |
| text | Tuomas Holopainen |
| music | Marco Hietala |
| album | Imaginaerum |
The Crow, the Owl and the Dove is a song by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish . It is the second single from their seventh studio album Imaginaerum .
Emergence
The music was written by bassist Marco Hietala on an acoustic guitar . In a backstage room in Moscow he played his idea to keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen . Holopainen asked him to withhold this song for Nightwish and not use it for Hietala's second volume, Tarot . Holopainen wrote the corresponding text within 15 minutes. Holopainen was inspired by the American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau . In terms of content, the song is about values such as pride , wisdom and love . These values are the corresponding bird - metaphors - the song title can be with, The Crow , The Owl and the Dove 'Translate - expressed.
The single was released on digipak , as a 10 ″ single on blue vinyl and as a download . In addition to the radio version, the album version and the instrumental version of the title song, the single contains the song The Heart Asks Pleasure First . This is the cover version from the soundtrack of the film Das Piano . The original version comes from the English composer Michael Nyman .
reception
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Marcel Rapp from the online magazine Powermetal.de described The Crow, the Owl and the Dove in his review as a “wonderful duet” between Anette Olzon and Marco Hietala. According to the reviewer JG from the online magazine HardHarderHeavy.de, “the song convinces with folk elements and acoustic guitars” and praised the “ singing performance of the highest level”. The reviewer The Wendigo from the online magazine Whiskey-soda.de, on the other hand, described the song as a "kitschy embarrassment".
The single reached number one in the Finnish single charts and was able to place itself for a total of three weeks. Outside Finland, the single reached number 82 in the single charts in Germany .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Daniela Sickinger: Gentle Rebellion . In: Blast! , Issue 97, page 7.
- ↑ Conny Schiffbauer: Games and fun in the summer camp . In: Rock Hard , January 2012, page 20.
- ↑ finnishcharts.com: Nightwish in the Finnish charts
- ↑ musicline.de: Nightwish in the German single charts ( Memento from July 8, 2013 on WebCite )
- ↑ Marcel Rapp: Nightwish / Imaginaerum - Review .
- ^ JG: Nightwish - Imaginaerum ( Memento of October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ The Wendigo: Nightwish - Imaginaerum ( Memento of August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).