On this day in music history: Machine Head, Pastorale, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Visual Music

Machine Head by Deep Purple (1972)
Pastorale by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (1997)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Nightwish (2015)
Visual Music by Joan Jeanrenaud (2016)
 

Machine Head

Album by Deep Purple,

released March 25, 1972.

Track list: Highway Star; Maybe I'm A Leo; Pictures Of Home; Never Before; Smoke On The Water; Lazy; Space Truckin'.

 

Pastorale

Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,

released March 25, 1997.

Track list: Elysian Fileds; Guinevere's Lament; The Jester; Savannah; Bourree; A Country Dance; Roses And Lace; Pastorale; Fisherman's Dream; Chapel In The Valley; Reverence Track Listings; Elysian Fileds; Guinevere's Lament; The Jester; Savannah; Bourree; A Country Dance; Roses And Lace; Pastorale; Fisherman's Dream; Chapel In The Valley; Reverence.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Album by Nightwish,

released March 25, 2015.

Track list: Shudder Before The Beautiful; Weak Fantasy; Élan; Yours Is An Empty Hope; Our Decades In The Sun; My Walden; Endless Forms Most Beautiful; Edema Ruh; Alpenglow; The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula; The Greatest Show On Earth; Shudder Before The Beautiful (instrumental); Weak Fantasy (instrumental); Élan (instrumental); Yours Is An Empty Hope (instrumental); Our Decades In The Sun (instrumental); My Walden (instrumental); Endless Forms Most Beautiful (instrumental); Edema Ruh (instrumental); Alpenglow (instrumental); The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula (orchestral); The Greatest Show On Earth (instrumental).

Visual Music

Album by Joan Jeanrenaud,

Released March 25, 2016.

Track list: Solo Prelude; Pilasters; Harmonic Harlem; Isola; Spinario; Dead Reckoning; Hypocrite; Puzzle; St Paul; Harlem Strut; Winter; Oulipo; This Is Not a Duet; Bacchanal; Moon Above; Virgin & Child; Ethereal Tree.

Oceanborn

Oceanborn

Album by Nightwish,

released December 7, 1998.

 

Track list:

Stargazers; Gethsemane; Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean; Sacrament of Wilderness; Passion and the Opera; Swanheart; Moondance (instrumental); The Riddler; The Pharaoh Sails to Orion; Walking in the Air" (Howard Blake cover); Sleeping Sun; Nightquest; A Return to the Sea; Sleeping Sun (live at Summer Breeze Open Air); Swanheart (live at Pakkahuone); The Pharaoh Sails to Orion (live at Pakkahuone).

On this day in music history - Imaginaerum (2011)

Imaginaerum

Album by Nightwish,

released November 30, 2011.

Track list:

Taikatalvi; Storytime; Ghost River; Slow, Love, Slow; I Want My Tears Back; Scaretale; Arabesque; Turn Loose the Mermaids; Rest Calm; The Crow, the Owl and the Dove; Last Ride of the Day; Song of Myself I. "From a Dusty Bookshelf" II. "All That Great Heart Lying Still" III. "Piano Black" IV. "Love"; Imaginaerum.

On this day in music history - Angels Fall First (1997)

 

Angels Fall First

Album by Nightwish

released November 1, 1997.

Track list:

Elvinpath; Beauty And The Beast; The Carpenter; Astral Romance; Angels Fall First; Tutankhamen; Nymphomaniac Fantasia; Know Why The Nightingale Sings; Lappi (Lapland): I. Eramaajarvi; Lappi (Lapland): II. Witchdrums; Lappi (Lapland): III. This Moment Is Eternity; Lappi (Lapland): Etiainen.

On this day in music history - Dark Passion Play - September 26, 2007

Dark Passion Play

Album by Nightwish,

released September 26, 2007.

Track list:

The Poet and the Pendulum; Bye Bye Beautiful; Amaranth; Cadence of Her Last Breath; Master Passion Greed; Eva; Sahara; Whoever Brings the Night; For the Heart I Once Had; The Islander; Last of the Wilds; 7 Days to the Wolves; Meadows of Heaven; Escapist.

On this day in music history - Yesterwynde (2024)

Yesterwynde

Album by Nightwish,

released September 20, 2024.

 
Track list:

Yesterwynde; An Ocean of Strange Islands; The Antikythera Mechanism; The Day of; Perfume of the Timeless; Sway; The Children of 'Ata; Something Whispered Follow Me; Spider Silk; Hiraeth; The Weave; Lanternlight.