AFM Records has set a November 24 release date for BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's holiday album "Winter Carols" (cover).
Former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his fiancée Candice Night have always loved the winter: the brisk clean air on a frosty eve when you can feel all your senses alive with the season — smell the wood fires burning, see your breath linger in the frosty air, feel the snowflakes fall upon your face. It evokes festivities and bright candlelight, and music that was sung and performed for hundreds of years by minstrels of the Middle Ages — many of these songs still emerge today during the winter season. This is their interpretation of many favourite carols, shared, performed and enjoyed for the past 400 years.
Commented Candice: "The holiday season has always embodied joy, love, peace, togetherness. The sentiments of the holidays are what we try to express in our music."
Added Ritchie: "The origin of the word carol means 'dance' back in the mid 1500s. Most of the Christmas Carols are from the 1400s, 1500s, 1600s. They are brilliant melodies. I am naturally attracted to these melodies — as a kid of 10, 11, 12, I would go from house to house during the holiday time and sing them just to earn some money. Now, as an adult, I thought I could play them and make more money.'
BLACKMORE'S NIGHT on tour:
Sep. 16 - ITA - Milan - Teatro Nuvo
Sep. 18 - NET - Nijmegen - Maadag De Vereeniging
Sep. 20 - FR - Paris - Olympia
Sep. 22 - CZE - Loket - Amfiteatr
Quelle honnêteté...
De toutes façons, c'est toujours tellement bon.
