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中 文 名 布莱克摩之夜
外 文 名 Blackmore's Night
类 型 乐队名
来 源 欧洲中世纪风格民谣乐队
乐队资料
提到英国的Ritchie Blackmore，就意味着得再次翻看Deep Purple（深紫）与Rainbow（彩虹）的历史。1968年Blackmore和朋友一起组建了深紫，在此期间奠定了其无人替代的新古典（前卫）吉它大师地位，1975年离队组建彩虹，1993年更名为Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow，1997年和他的妻子Candice Night组成的一个夫妻音乐组合，虽然他们的年龄相差了26岁，可是音乐确丝毫不影响这些。
Blackmore夫妻档在New Age与World Music的音乐领域已颇富盛名，成为少数能够成功跨足Rock/New Age/World Music的艺人。
吉他手Ritchie Blackmore和他的妻子Candice Night组成的夫妻乐队 Blackmore’sNight，唤醒了多少人的耳朵。神仙眷侣虽然年岁相差达26岁，但这并不影响他们对音乐的理解一致。Ritchie Blackmore从hard rock中抽身而和妻子共同步入美妙的world music,Renaissance, new age, folk领域，源自于Ritchie Blackmore的文艺复兴（Renaissance）情结。
Ritchie并没有完全放弃自己心爱的Fender Stratocaster，但这并不影响他在 Blackmore’s Night里用原声木吉他演奏出醉人的旋律，高超的技艺无处不在。Night清爽ethereal式的嗓音辅于各种中世纪乐器----曼陀铃，键盘，锡哨，提琴，铃鼓，军鼓，手摇风琴等让人体验到从来没有过的美妙感受。Ritchie曾这样形容Blackmore’s Night----"Mike Oldfield meets Enya."
Ritchie和Night初识是在1989年，当时Ritchie和他的Deep Purple跟Night所在纽约长岛的电台工作成员橄榄球队打比赛。Night过去是个职业模特，她曾在纽约科技学院攻读通信专业同时参加学校的电台节目。出于对文艺复兴时期文化的深爱，Blackmore和Night在分享经历的同时很自然并很快地成为了一对。
Blackmore’s Night的最终组成，跟Blackmore以前的两个乐队是密不可分的。1993年Deep Purple的专辑《The Battle Rages On》成绩相当糟糕，Blackmore伤心之余退出了DeepPurple。随后在1995年的《Stranger in Us All》中，Blackmore运用了高科技电子乐使得Rainbow再次充满活力。这时，Night已经参与到了四首歌的歌词创作中来。Blackmore其实不想再把这些作品称之为Rainbow的作品，然而唱片公司的上层却固执的坚持只有使用Rainbow的乐团名字，唱片才可能在市场上获得更大的销售量。在Strangerin Us All之后，文艺复兴情结再次加深，Blackmore开始在家大量地练习这些多年来他深爱的但一直没有真正练习过的中世纪旋律，并下决心出这样的专辑，而Night也开始在旁边伴着唱起来。这些天真无邪而又不正规的即兴动机正是Blackmore’s Night的萌芽。
主要专辑
1998年 第一张专辑Shadow of the Moon
1999年 专辑Under a Violet Moon
2001年 专辑Minstrels and Ballads
2001年 专辑Fires At Midnight
2002年 专辑Past time with good company
2003年 专辑Ghost of a rose
2005年 I'll Be There
2005年 Castles and Dreams
2006年 专辑The village lanterne
2006年 专辑Winter Carols
2007年 Paris Moon
2008年 专辑Secret Voyage
2010年 专辑Autumn Sky
2013年 专辑Dancer And The Moon
2015年 专辑All Our Yesterdays
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 ten studio albums; their latest, ‘All Our Yesterdays’, was released on September 18, 2015.
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 Faires 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.
Discography
Shadow of the Moon (1997)
Under a Violet Moon (1999)
Fires at Midnight (2001)
Ghost of a Rose (2003)
The Village Lanterne (2006)
Winter Carols (2006)
Secret Voyage (2008)
Autumn Sky (2010)
Dancer and the Moon (2013)
All Our Yesterdays (2015)
