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Members: |
Richtie Blackmore / electric &
acoustic guitars, tambourine, hurdy gurdy, mandola, renaissance
drum |
Candice Night / lead & backing
vocals, shawms, rauschpfeife, pennywhistles, chanters, cornasume
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CD :1 |
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| Track
Listing: |
1.)-25 Years (4:56)
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8.)-Village Dance
(Instrumental) (1:56) |
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2.)- Village Lanterne (5:11) |
9.)- Mond Tanz / Child In Time
(6:10) |
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3.)- I Guess It Doesn't
Matter Anymore (4:48) |
10.)-Streets Of London
(3:45) |
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4.)-The Messenger
(Instrumental) (2:53) |
11.)-Just Call My
Name (I'll Be There) (4:47 |
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5.)- World Of Stone
(4:23) |
12.)-Olde Mill Inn
(3:19) |
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6.)-Faerie Queen-Faerie Dance
(4:55) |
13.)-Windmills (3:25) |
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7.)St. Teresa (5:25) |
14.)-Street Of Dreams (4:33) |
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CD: 2 |
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1.)- Call It Love-(Performed ba
Candice Night) (2:53) |
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2.)- Street Of Dreams Featuring
Joe Lynn Turner (4:32) |
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3.)- All Because Of You (Radio
Edit) (3:23) |
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| The
Review |
Continuing his love and mixture of renaissance music with
more contemporary strands of music pays off in the sixth album
from former Deep Purple/Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore
and Candice Night. A marvelous album that doesn’t strain in
connecting two very different worlds of music, “The Village
Lanterne” is Blackmore’s Night’s most accomplished album to
date. Blackmore even ventures into the past and reinvents
one Deep Purple classic and one Rainbow classic—“Child in
Time” is paired up with the new “Mond Tanz” while “Street
of Dreams” is pulled from Rainbow’s 1983 “Bend Out of Shape”.
Both are reinvented for this fine album giving Blackmore a
chance to look back without reliving past glories. The opening
track “25 Years” opens the album with a powerful acoustic
track driven by Night’s ethereal vocals. Between that track
and the concluding “Street of Dreams” Blackmore’s Night continues
to plow fertile fields of music. You can’t call Ritchie Blackmore
a has been nor can you accuse him to resting on his laurels
and his muse continues to be as restless as his spidery fingers
that run up and down the neck of his guitar.
Highly recommended.
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