Year : 2006 (Remastered Edition 2013)
Style : Folk Rock
Country : United Kingdom, United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 202 mb
Bio:
Blackmore's Night is a British/American traditional folk rock duo formed in 1997, consisting of Ritchie Blackmore (acoustic and electric guitar) and Candice Night (lead vocals, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist). To date they have released nine studio albums; their latest, Dancer and the Moon, was released on June 11,2013.Candice was a Rainbow fan, and first encountered Ritchie Blackmore to ask him for an autograph in 1989, while she was working for a local New York radio station. The two started living together in 1991, and discovered they both had a passionate interest in Renaissance music.During the reformed Rainbow's recording of the album Stranger in Us All in 1995, on which Night contributed some of the lyrics and backing harmony vocals, the duo were already gearing up their debut album. Night's personality and singing ability made her the natural choice as frontwoman. In 1997 the project started as being a pun of their own names, which would consist of themselves plus session musicians.Their debut album Shadow of the Moon was a musical success and featured Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull on flute for the song "Play Minstrel Play". In subsequent albums, particularly Fires at Midnight, there was an increased incorporation of rock guitar into the music, whilst maintaining a folk rock direction. Over time, Night has increasingly participated instrumentally as well as singing the vocals, and is competent in a wide variety of Renaissance instruments.The group performs at Renaissance fairs and Renaissance Festivals, as well as in stand-alone concert tours in appropriate venues including 'castle tours' of Europe,where they perform in historic surroundings for an audience dressed largely in period costume. The duo has been successful enough to inspire a number of international tribute bands including: Renaissance Night, the Italian Morning Star and the Midnight.They have also performed the music for MagiQuest, a live simulation game.In 2006, Night performed a duet with Andi Deris on Helloween's "Light the Universe",which was released as a single in certain countries and is available on their album Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy, released in the same year.On June 27, 2008, the duo released its seventh studio album called Secret Voyage, a mix of medieval-sounding tracks and some contemporary ones. In addition to some covers of some traditional folk music (“Locked Within the Crystal Ball" is from the fourteenth century) and some originals, Blackmore’s Night also performed a cover of a Rainbow song (“Rainbow Eyes”) and an Elvis Presley cover ("Can't Help Falling in Love").On October 5, 2008, Night and Blackmore were married after 19 years together. This is the fourth marriage for Blackmore.Autumn Esmerelda Blackmore was born on May 27, 2010. A new album titled Autumn Sky was released soon afterwards. Their son Rory Dartanyan was born on February 7, 2012.
Album:
Winter Carols is the sixth studio album by the group Blackmore's Night, released in the United Kingdom on October, 2006, and in the United States on November 7, 2006. It is a Christmas themed album. The cover artwork for this album, painted by Karsten Topelmann, is an adaptation of a street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, in line with the band's heavy Renaissance influence. The same street is portrayed in the cover of Blackmore's Night's second studio album, Under a Violet Moon. In the cover of "Winter Carols" the street is painted as winter time, whereas Under a Violet Moon's cover takes place on apparently a summer night.On December 2006, Winter Carols entered at #7 on USA Billboard New Age Charts.The album won the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Award as the Best Holiday Album.
Line-Up:
Ritchie Blackmore – arrangements, guitar, mandola, nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, percussion
Candice Night – vocals, shawm, pennywhistle
Pat Regan – production, arrangements, keyboards
Sir Robert of Normandie (Robert Curiano) – bass
Sisters of the Moon: Lady Madeline and Lady Nancy (Madeline and Nancy Posner) – harmony vocals
Bard David of Larchmont (David Baranowski) – keyboards
Sarah Steiding – violin
Anton Fig – drums
Albert Dannemann – bagpipes, backing vocals
Ian Robertson and Jim Manngard – backing vocals
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. Hark the Herald Angels Sing/Come All Ye Faithfull /Traditional 3:50
02. I Saw Three Ships /Traditional 2:40
03. Winter (Basse Dance) /Blackmore 3:07
04. Ding Dong Merrily on High /Traditional 3:16
05. Ma-O-Tzur /Traditional 2:19
06. Good King Wenceslas /Traditional 4:44
07. Lord of the Dance/Simple Gifts /Brackett, Carter 3:34 8 We Three Kings /Traditional 4:48
09. Wish You Were Here /Teijo 5:02
10. Emmanuel /Traditional 3:32
11. Christmas Eve /Blackmore, Night 4:20
12. We Wish You a Merry Christmas /Traditional 1:21
CD2: (Live From Minstrel Hall)
01. ‘Hark The Herald Angels Sing/O Come All Ye Faithful’
02. ‘Emmanuel’
03. ‘We Three Kings’
04. ‘Ma-O-Tzur’
05. ‘Good King Wenceslas’
06. ‘Christmas Eve’ (2013 Version)
07. ‘Christmas Eve’ (German radio edit)
08. ‘Christmas Eve’ (English and German radio edit)
09. ‘Christmas Eve’ (English radio edit)
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