Skyline Whispers

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Skyline Whispers
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Studio album by The Night Flight Orchestra
Released 9 June 2015 (2015-06-09)
Recorded 2014 at Nordic Sound Lab Studios, Skara, Sweden
Genre Classic rock, AOR, hard rock
Length56:28
Label Coroner Records
The Night Flight Orchestra chronology
Internal Affairs
(2012)		Skyline Whispers
(2015)		 Amber Galactic
(2017)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Thunder Underground'fantastic' [1]
Music and Festival Reviews10/10 [2]
Nihil Verum Nisi Mors4/5 [3]
Rocknroll Reporter5/6 [4]
Artrock.se9/10 [5]
Heavymetale.se4/5 [6]
Rocknytt10/10 [7]
Metal Wave76/100 [8]
Dead Rhetoric9/10 [9]

Skyline Whispers is the second studio album by Swedish classic rock/AOR band The Night Flight Orchestra, released on 9 June 2015 via Coroner Records.

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on commercially successful hard rock popularized in the 1970s. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s.

Album-oriented rock is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists. AOR evolved from progressive rock radio in the mid-1970s, using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal.

The Night Flight Orchestra Swedish band

The Night Flight Orchestra is a Swedish hard rock band from Helsingborg. They are signed to Nuclear Blast Records. Formed in 2007 by Björn Strid and David Andersson while they were touring in the USA with their band Soilwork, they were later joined by bassist Sharlee D'Angelo, Richard Larsson, Jonas Källsbäck and, more recently, Sebastian Forslund (Kadwatha). They have released four studio albums.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Sail On"4:47
2."Living for the Nighttime"6:00
3."Stiletto"4:31
4."Owaranai Palisades"1:13
5."Lady Jade"4:13
6."I Ain't Old, I Ain't Young"5:04
7."All the Ladies"4:26
8."Spanish Ghosts"4:54
9."Demon Princess"4:54
10."Skyline Whispers"2:23
11."Roads Less Traveled"4:07
12."The Heather Reports"9:56
Total length:56:28
Digipak edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."Floridian Eyes"6:10
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."Floridian Eyes"6:10
14."But You and I" 
15."1998" (demo version) 

Credits

Personnel

The Night Flight Orchestra
Björn Strid musician

Björn Ove Ingemar "Speed" Strid is a Swedish vocalist who has worked with bands such as I Legion, Disarmonia Mundi, Terror 2000, Coldseed, The Night Flight Orchestra and most notably Soilwork.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Production
Audio engineer engineer who operates recording, mixing, sound reproduction equipment

An audio engineer helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the "...technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the setting of levels. The physical recording of any project is done by an engineer ... the nuts and bolts." It's a creative hobby and profession where musical instruments and technology are used to produce sound for film, radio, television, music, and video games. Audio engineers also set up, sound check and do live sound mixing using a mixing console and a sound reinforcement system for music concerts, theatre, sports games and corporate events.

Audio mixing (recorded music) audio mixing to yield recorded sound

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product. These tracks that are blended together are done so by using various processes such as equalization and compression. Audio mixing techniques and approaches can vary widely, and due to the skill-level or intent of the mixer, can greatly affect the qualities of the sound recording.

Audio mastering form of audio post-production

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device, the source from which all copies will be produced. In recent years digital masters have become usual, although analog masters, such as audio tapes, are still being used by the manufacturing industry, notably by a few engineers who have chosen to specialize in analog mastering.

Notes
Skara Place in Västergötland, Sweden

Skara is a locality and the seat of Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013. Despite its small size, it is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, and has a long educational and ecclesiastical history. One of Sweden's oldest high schools, Katedralskolan, is situated in Skara.

Sweden constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe

Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the Swedish-Danish border. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.4 million has a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi). The highest concentration is in the southern half of the country.

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