Tarja shares a deep insight about her latest single “At Sea”

The brand-new metal album “Frisson Noir” by former Nightwish singer Tarja Turunen will be available on earMUSIC on June 12, as per Blabbermouth. In the video below, Tarja discusses the album’s lead track, “At Sea,” which was released in March.

‘At Sea’, the song is about uncertainty or facing uncertainty with fear but determination. I wrote the song thinking about the ocean itself. I’m an ocean soul. I’ve always kind of feared the sea, but on the other side, on the other hand, I’m a scuba diver and I love what’s underneath the surface. It’s been a huge inspiration for me. But I fear, but still I go.

So this is the thing in life, when you accept that the journey has made you who you are. You take that journey and understand that the journey is part of you. You create the journey. You leave the shore behind the uncertainty. You leave the shore that was all fine and beautiful and maybe certain and normal and calm, but then you go to the stormy see without knowing what is there for you. But you wanna see if you are capable of facing the storm — like in life.

I wrote the song with a piano, I made the skeleton with a piano, and it has a lot of, many tempo changes and [it is], in general, a very complex song,” she continued. “And within there is also this huge orchestration from Jim Dooley again and choir parts, but the piano, as it is the core of the song, I needed to find someone that could really, not only from the technical aspects, but also could handle the emotional part of the song. And so I called my longtime friend, even from Karlsruhe University from here — I studied in Germany — Niklas Pokki, pianist. And he did an amazing performance in Finnvox studios in Helsinki. And Mervi Myllyoja delivered amazing, beautiful violin parts for the song.

Yes. It’s a huge song, I’m very happy [with how it turned out]. Actually, there is also a song that I merged into the song that I was writing for the album. It’s a part of a song that I had for more than 15 years that I took over and I finished it for this song. And it became a Frankenstein, but I hope it’s a beautiful Frankenstein. [Laughs]