How's the Second Sky thing coming along Dan?

[batmura]

You said you did some work back in Nov or something and had booked the studio in Jan - so how's it going? What's it going to sound like? Is it gonna be real prog, unlike the last couple of Nightingale discs? I love Nightingale, but I'm really looking forward to some really chorusless, dark, PROGGY material from you Dan...

Any comments?

 

[Naglfar]

See thread above (or under, now that I've posted here...)

 

[Eyesore]

Chorusless? Nooooo! How boring.

 

[batmura]

Chorusless? Nooooo! How boring.

You suck. If you want 80's hard rock choruses, stick to everything Alive Again onwards. They're like 70% hard rock/AOR + 30% prog.

What I expect from Second Sky, as Dan has also hinted, is a full-on prog assault, where Dan explores huge, multi-segmented tracks with interesting musical ideas, rather than repeated, sing-along chorus-friendly hard rock songs with 2000's production.

 

[Gurgelguff]

What I expect from Second Sky, as Dan has also hinted, is a full-on prog assault, where Dan explores huge, multi-segmented tracks with interesting musical ideas, rather than repeated, sing-along chorus-friendly hard rock songs with 2000's production.

I think you´re in for a dissapointmet

 

[paradoxile]

pwnd by Dag

 

[Naglfar]

You suck. If you want 80's hard rock choruses, stick to everything Alive Again onwards. They're like 70% hard rock/AOR + 30% prog.

What I expect from Second Sky, as Dan has also hinted, is a full-on prog assault, where Dan explores huge, multi-segmented tracks with interesting musical ideas, rather than repeated, sing-along chorus-friendly hard rock songs with 2000's production.

Expect the unexpected with Dan

haha

 

[batmura]

I think you´re in for a dissapointmet

So you're saying Second Sky is going to be just like Nightingale, but under a different moniker?

 

[Gurgelguff]

So you're saying Second Sky is going to be just like Nightingale, but under a different moniker?

No. S.S is a lot softer ( but still with choruses ) If you like Unicorn you gonna like S.S. You shouldn´t have a problem finding "proggstuff" without choruses. The world is full of them

 

[Naglfar]

So you're saying Second Sky is going to be just like Nightingale, but under a different moniker?

Does it matter if it still rooooooooooocks? =)

I'd like another Moontower or Edge of Sanity, but goodies are goodies. ^^

 

[Eyesore]

You suck. If you want 80's hard rock choruses, stick to everything Alive Again onwards. They're like 70% hard rock/AOR + 30% prog.

What I expect from Second Sky, as Dan has also hinted, is a full-on prog assault, where Dan explores huge, multi-segmented tracks with interesting musical ideas, rather than repeated, sing-along chorus-friendly hard rock songs with 2000's production.

Pffft! I love prog. I'm not looking for Def Leppard choruses, but a song needs a hook! =)

 

[Demilich]

batmura, get this through your head: dan LOVES pop music! probably moreso than ever these days! didn't you notice that even his death metal bands have some pop in them?

 

[paradoxile]

batmura, get this through your head: dan LOVES pop music! probably moreso than ever these days! didn't you notice that even his death metal bands have some pop in them?

care to be speciffic?

 

[Naglfar]

care to be speciffic?

Losing Myself on Infernal? lol

 

[paradoxile]

Losing Myself on Infernal? lol

 

[karpsmom]

but I'm really looking forward to some really chorusless, dark, PROGGY material from you Dan...

I doubt it will be chorusless or dark. It's been said more than once in one way or another on this forum that Second Sky will be Unicorn 2, and Unicorn was the farthest thing from dark or chorusless that Dan has done!

 

[Skaldir]

batmura, you should check out Änglagård, they fit more in your describtion.
Great music

 

[russel]

A superslick late 70's/early 80's Toto with refrains/hooks a'la Wayne Hussey (the Mission)?


B.T.W
Dan, have you noticed Mission comes to Sthlm friday may 25 @ Berns.
I'll try to pay a visit from Örebro.

 

[batmura]

batmura, get this through your head: dan LOVES pop music! probably moreso than ever these days! didn't you notice that even his death metal bands have some pop in them?

And you get this through your head:

When Dan first announced his will to start a project called Second Sky, he said, on this very board, that he wanted to make an album that was like the beginning of "Eternal" and VERY proggy. Given "Eternal" is pretty much the only prog song on Alive Again, it is only natural to expect something in that vein.

Besides, by chorusless I didn't mean songs with no hooks whatsoever. But when you listen to The Closing Chronicles, it's a whole lotta different than Alive Again and Invisible. Sure the songs there have hooks too, but they're certainly darker and harder to pigeonhole. I'm a fan of Nightingale, but they have clearly opted for an 80's hard rock sound on the last couple of discs; and I simply favour Dan's other work such as Odyssey, Godsend, earlier Nightingale (TCC & I), and definitely Unicorn. I do NOT think Unicorn resembles Nightingale in any way.

Capiche?

 

[batmura]

batmura, you should check out Änglagård, they fit more in your describtion.
Great music

Already a big fan of Anglagard, but I want to hear Dan's voice in such a musical context.

Just spun Godsend's Wayfarer this morning, and GAWD. The man kills.