Tarja Turunen enlists A-list guitarists for electronic side-project.
Eighteen years after her departure from Nightwish, people still have certain ideas about Tarja Turunen, reducing her to one character: the symphonic metal diva. But as the debut album from this largely electronic, often instrumental project co-masterminded with German EDM producer/composer Torsten Stenzel (Tubular Beats) reflects, there’s more to her than basques and bombast.
A unique marriage of electronic atmospheres. Outlanders’ roots go back almost 20 years. Back in 2005 Turunen was invited to sing on a record by the electronic artist Schiller, from which an enduring relationship with electronic music began. A few years later, contemplating the lack of guitar solos in her own records, she came across Alan Parsons’ electronics-heavy album A Valid Path – specifically, the two tracks featuring…
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