Candice Night met Ritchie Blackmore when she was a background singer. That chance meeting has evolved into a 15-year musical and romantic relationship. Now Blackmore\u2019s wife, she has fronted the renaissance\/rock group, Blackmore\u2019s Night, as its lead singer since 1997. She has now stepped out of the band\u2019s shadow to release the solo album, Reflections.<\/i><\/p>\n
This is first and foremost a Candice Night project. She set the direction of the release, in addition to writing the lyrics and the music. <\/p>\n
The album began with a number of lyrics she had written but had yet set to music. Ritchie Blackmore was busy with a project of his own, so she decided to write the music herself. With her husband unavailable, it left Night free to explore territory of her choosing. While her Blackmore\u2019s Night roots remain firmly in place, and at times influence some of the songs, she does branch out toward the pop\/rock mainstream on this release. <\/p>\n
She has one of those voices that is a gift from God and it is on display here. In a group setting, that voice always shares the stage with Blackmore\u2019s guitar play, but now it occupies the center position without any constraints. <\/p>\n
Night has always been an excellent lyricist. Her visions, sometimes mystical and surreal, are now prominent, her ethereal vocals bringing them to life.<\/p>\n
The music on Reflections <\/i>travels in a number of directions: from country, to contemporary pop, to rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. There is the catchy melody of the pop-oriented \u201cGone Gone Gone,\u201d the electronically driven dance track \u201cDangerous Smile,\u201d the gentleness of \u201cWind Is Calling (Hush The Wind),\u201c not to mention the introspective \u201cAlone With Fate\u201d and \u201cIn Time.\u201d My only complaint is the constant use of keyboards, which make the use of strings on \u201cAlone With Fate\u201d a welcome relief.<\/p>\n
Candice Night has made it quite clear that Blackmore\u2019s Night will remain her priority. Still, it\u2019s good to see her take a chance and stretch out a bit. Reflections <\/i>is a nice look into the creative spirit and soul of Candice Night. It should please her old fans and gain her some new ones as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":31249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9007],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-42942","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-candice-night","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42942"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42942"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}