dissabte, 21 de març del 2009

Blackmore's Night és un conjunt de música folk rock/new age que s'inspira en la música del Renaixement; l'encapçalen Ritchie Blackmore i Candice Night.
La història del conjunt comença el 1990, quan la Candice treballava a Nova York en una emissora de ràdio de música rock i on, per raons de feina, conegué en Ritchie, integrant de Deep Purple en aquells moments. Esdevingueren parella sentimental i s'adonaren que compartien interès pel Renaixement. Després de plegar de Deep Purple el1993, i havent gravat el 1995 l'àlbum Stranger in Us All com a Rainbow (amb la Candice fent els cors), en Ritchie decidí apropar la música renaixentista al públic modern. L'efervescent personalitat de Candice i el seu talent com a cantant en féu l'elecció perfecta per a imatge del grup. En el 1997 tot era a punt per llançar el conjunt, amb el nom del conjunt tret del joc de paraules format pels cognoms d'ambdós.
El 1999 publiquen el seu disc Under a violet moon en el que la cançó Wind in the Willows ocupa el setè lloc.

El plaer de compartir. Grans paraules no són necessàries.




As I went a walking
One morning in spring
I met with some travelers
On an old country land
One was an old man
The second a maid
The third was a young boy who smiled as he said
"With the wind in the willows
The birds in the sky
There's a bright sun to warm us wherever we lie...
We have bread and fishes and a jug of red wine
To share on our journey with all of mankind".
So I asked them to tell me their name and their race
So I could remember each smile on their face
"Our name, they mean nothing...
They change throughout time
So come sit beside us and share in our wine"
So I sat down beside them
With flowers all around
We et from a mantle
Spread out on the ground
They told me of prophets
And peoples and kings
And all of the one god that knows everything
"We're traveling to Glaston
Over England's gren lanes
To hear of men's troubles
To hear of their pains
We travel the wide world
Over land and the sea
To tell all the peopleHow they can be free..."
So sadly I left them
On that old country lane
For I knew that
I'd never see them again
One was an old man
The second a maid
The third was a young boy who smiled as he said...


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