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My Winter Storm

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Released
  
19 November 2007

Artist
  
Tarja Turunen

Producer
  
Daniel Presley

Release date
  
19 November 2007

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Recorded
  
Grouse Lodge Studios, Westmeath, Ireland, Can del Sol, Ibiza, Spain, The Village, Los Angeles, USA, Petrax Studio, Hollola, Finland, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, Finland, Remote Control Productions, Santa Monica, USA, Fusão Estúdios, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sound Development AG, Zurich, Switzerland, Jojo Music Studios, Stuttgart, Germany

Length
  
60:58 (Standard edition)

My Winter Storm (2007)
  
What Lies Beneath (2010)

Label
  
Insomniac/Interscope Records

Genres
  
Symphonic metal, Classical music, Symphonic rock, Hard rock, Gothic rock, Pop rock, Crossover music

Nominations
  
Echo Award for Best International Newcomer

Similar
  
Tarja Turunen albums, Symphonic metal albums

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My Winter Storm is the second solo album by Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, and the first to consist mainly of new and original songs specifically written by or for Turunen. The album was released by Universal Music on 19 November 2007 in Finland, on 2 January 2008 in South America and on February 26 in North America and in the United Kingdom was also released a special version limited in 300 copies.

Contents

The album was recorded with the collaboration of various artists, including cellist Martin Tillman, guitarist Kiko Loureiro and composer James Dooley, with Turunen also playing additional keyboards. The album contains several music styles including alternative rock and classical music, and it was recorded in different studios in Finland, Brazil, Ireland, USA, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic.

My Winter Storm has sold Platinum in Finland and Double Platinum in Russia, and also reached Tarja's first gold disc in her entire career in the Czech Republic; the album spent two and a half months on the Official Finnish Albums Chart, reaching the highest position right during the first week, also spending four months on German Top 100, two months on Swiss Top 100 and also a full month on the Austrian Top 40, ending 2007 at 11th position on Billboard's Top 100 European albums with more than 500,000 copies sold.

To promote the album, Tarja played the Storm World Tour, that took place from Berlin on November 25, 2007, to London on October 19, 2009.

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Deluxe Edition bonus DVD

  • Photo Gallery
  • I Walk Alone (Single Version Video)
  • I Walk Alone (Artist Version Video)
  • I Walk Alone (Making of the Video)
  • My Winter Storm (Making of the Album)
  • Special Extended Edition

    My Winter Storm - Special Extended Edition was released on January 2, 2009, as a double CD, bringing a new cover art, some live tracks and mixes and also the new songs "Enough", "Wisdom of Wind" and "The Seer" (featuring Doro Pesch) released as the The Seer EP.

    Personnel

    Credits for My Winter Storm adapted from liner notes.

    Musicians

    Band members
  • Tarja Turunen - lead and backing vocals
  • Alex Scholpp - electric guitars
  • Doug Wimbish - bass
  • Earl Harvin - drums
  • Torsten Stenzel - keyboards and programming
  • Additional musicians
  • Martin Tillman - cello and electric cello
  • Izumi Kawakatsu - piano
  • Lili Haydin - violin
  • Kiko Loureiro - acoustic guitars
  • Czech Film Orchestra and Choir conducted by Jiří Kubík and Jan Brych
  • Dana Niu - lead orchestrator
  • Tea Tähtinen, Toni Turunen, Daniel Presley - backing vocals on "Poison"
  • Kid Crazy - additional keyboards on "Sing for Me"
  • Peter Tägtgren - lead guitar on "Lost Northern Star" (Tägtgren Remix)
  • Production

  • Daniel Presley - producer
  • James Dooley - orchestral and choir arrangements, co-producer on "Our Great Divide"
  • Mel Wesson - ambient music design and electronic arrangements
  • Doug Cook - recording engineer
  • Dani Castelar, Noel Zancanella, Thiago Bianchi, Helge Van Dyk, Felix Gauder - additional engineers
  • Milan Jilek, Cenda Kottzmann - orchestra and choir recording engineers
  • Slamm Andrews - mixing
  • Louie Teran - mastering
  • Dirk Rudolph - cover art
  • Jens Bold - photos
  • Songs

    1Ite - missa est0:27
    2I Walk Alone3:53
    3Lost Northern Star4:23

    References

    My Winter Storm Wikipedia