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| Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - The latest developments in the Saana drama | Some interesting developments have happened over the past day with the new Timo Tolkki solo album. They are listed below in chronological order.
Timo Tolkki - "A Little Gift As A Thank You"
Timo Tolkki issued the following update:
"In the last days I have received so much support from people all over the world that I decided to give you a little gift. You can download some new songs from www.saana-warrioroflight.com
that are all from the upcoming album (Saana - Warrior Of Light Part 1: Journey To Crystal Island).
Thank you so much for your support. The songs are in MP3 format with a standard 192 kbp/s, so they should be good quality. I hope you like them. They are freely at your disposal and dont have any digital protection coding. I trust that my real fans will support me as they have so many years already. I really cannot thank you enough.
Cheers, Timo."
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Frontiers press release
Frontiers Records has announced it will issue TIMO TOLKKI's Saana-Warrior Of Light Part 1: Journey To Crystal Island album on March 14th.
The label states: "Since Timo Tolkki (main songwriter and guitar player for the legendary Finnish heavy metal band STRATOVARIUS) had the idea for a Rock Opera two years ago, a lot has happened. After signing the record deal with Frontiers Records, he has been working hard on this project. It has been a monumental task that has just been getting bigger and bigger.
"Composing, writing the story, casting from hundreds of people, and putting this all together has been very refreshing and interesting for me", says Tolkki. "I think it is the next logical step for me ", he continues.
"This album has just basically one long song, but there are 18 themes that are bound together by a story in which I have used my long time interest in philosophy, psychology and spirituality. At the end of the day it really has just two main themes: love and the fight between good and evil. As the name indicates, there will be another part to this saga. It really is a very interesting story about an old theme, but I think I have managed to take it somewhere that no one has been before", Tolkki finishes.
Featuring the vocal talents of Jennifer Sowle, Aino Laos, Heikki Poyhiä and Janette Sainio, this album is a breathtaking experience of emotions. The singers were each carefully chosen for their respective roles and they will enhance the musical journey in a way that has never really been heard before. Timo Tolkki calls it "A Classical Rock Opera".
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Timo Tolkki then terminated his contract with Frontiers Records
Statement from Timo Tolkki:
"I would like to inform you about the following things regarding Saana. Due to the fact that Frontiers Records hasn't fullfilled its contractual obligations regarding Saana, I have terminated the contract between my production company Goldenworks and them. Regardless of that, they have notified me by email today that they are going to release Saana anyway without my permission even though they don't have the material to be able to produce the CD at all. They only have MP3 files which are not adequate to produce a high quality CD. Also, they have absolutely no graphic material for the booklet, information regarding the songs or even the lyrics.
I would like to remind you that the ONLY OFFICIAL place where you can buy Saana is www.theground.com. As soon as their new layout is ready, you will be able to make pre-orders of Saana from that site. They deliver to the whole world fast and reliably.
THE OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE OF "SAANA-WARRIOR OF LIGHT PT1" is 3.3.2008
The official releas date is March 3rd. The configurations available to you are:
1) MP3/FLAC Album without copy protection (includes 24 page digital booklet and video) 7.77 ?
2) Jewel Box CD (with 24 page booklet) 13 ?
3) Jewel Box CD with bonus DVD (with 24 page booklet, 3 videos, in-depth interview of Jennifer Sowle, in-depth interview of Timo Tolkki and photo gallery) 18 ?
4) DVD (Includes the filmed story of Saana album with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, Making Of documentary, interviews and photo gallery. No region code. May release. 20 ?
I would like to ask you to boycott the possible Frontiers release of Saana because it is not the official version of the record and its quality is likely to be extremely poor.
Thank you for your wonderful support, especially in the last few days."
Timo
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Following this, Frontiers Records has released the following statement:
"Frontiers Records would like to inform all press and fans that the release of Timo Tolkki's Saana - Warrrior Of Light Pt. 1 - Journey To Crystal Island rightfully belongs only to the label for the entire world.
Frontiers has indeed signed a regular exclusive License Agreement for it which, notwithstanding the statements of Mr. Tolkki, is still rightful and legal and all due sums have been paid against the production of the record.
There is indeed a controversy about it which is treated in the due seats as it should.
We hope that people and fans will not be bothered by this story by any means and get concentrated on the music which is the thing that counts the most." |
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