Harvest Background vocal-line

[Adam_Skogvard]

What is Mike singing in the background vocal-line during the last chorus of the song "Harvest" (Recorded version on Blackwater Park)?

Does anyone know?

 

[Anti-Everything]

I love that part, it's fucking awesome. Im not sure if he even is saying anything, it just sounds like a soft moan, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was.

 

[Black_paragon]

you can hear someone saying something about 'halo' near the end

 

[AbsentFriend]

release your grip... something something

there were threads on this subject before, check em out by doing a search

 

[ollebull]

and what about the background vocals in the funeral portrait? when mike sings "and you are just like them all" for the second and last time.....

 

[SecretFace]

your mom

 

[synergy]

I love those background vocals. Ans whats with all of that gibberish at the end of "By The Pain I See In Others". I guess its in Swedish or something, but it still sounds cool.

 

[Post_Scriptum]

Heh. Not really, it's the soft parts of the fifth song (I can't remember it's title) played backwards.

 

[AbsentFriend]

It's a part of Master's Apprentice played backwards

 

[synergy]

I dont know how the hell you figured that out

 

[Limelight]

Wow, I thought it (the end of of By The Pain I See In Others) was just some random babbling. Although it sounded like an islamese call to prayer. You know, some guy yells like that in the top of a huge tower and everybody knows that it's the time to bow to Mecca and pray... Sorry about my imagination.

 

[Nico]

'islamese'?

 

[splump]

The background vocals on the last chorus for Harvest is as follows:
"Release your grip now, let me go, into this night."
That is an official statement from michael, not just a wild guess.
So now you know.

 

[splump]

Also, the background vocals on The funeral portrait is:
"And you are just like them all, stained by the name of fathers.
Im greeting my downward fall, leaving the throes for others."
Read the lyrics, will ya?

 

[Gymsokk]

By the pain I see in others:

Htaed otni yaw eht dael
Won resolc
Peels rof gnol
Gnivael dna
Yawa gnidaf

Tuohtiw Od Nac I Tahw
Em Gniwohs
Thgil Laerehte
Raeppasid Dna
Edaf Sruoloc
Ecnart Gnihtoos

read it backwards...

 

[osse87]

Sounds like "we leave your". And then he "main" vocal is "halo of death". So it may be "we leave your halo of death", but does that make any sense?

 

[Limelight]

'islamese'?

I'm sorry for my really bad English, I mean the religion Islam. Maybe I shouldn't talk about things I don't know in a language I don't understand.

 

[ollebull]

Also, the background vocals on The funeral portrait is:
"And you are just like them all, stained by the name of fathers.
Im greeting my downward fall, leaving the throes for others."
Read the lyrics, will ya?

Yeah, I know the lyrics.. but you obviously don't understand what I mean. What I meant was what's sung in the background during that part (the second time those lines are sung), with a "telephone" effect on Mikael's voice, and it's quite clear that the lyrics aren't the same.... get it this time???

 

[KennonKun]

It's a part of Master's Apprentices played backward.

I read that it was a verse in Wreath played backward, but whatever. I think it's cool that someone figured this out, but I'm mad, because that leaves nearly no mystery to anything Opeth does at all. Of course, in 10 years, a new generation will have to figure it out all over again. So, I don't mind much.

 

[Katabasis]

QUOTE: "The background vocals on the last chorus for Harvest is as follows:
"Release your grip now, let me go, into this night."
That is an official statement from michael, not just a wild guess.
So now you know."

Cool, I have ALWAYS wondered what that was, I'll have to go and listen to it now. Where did Mikael make that statement? Just in a magazine interview somewhere?