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Dancer and the Moon
Blackmore’s Night will release in North America their new album Dancer and the Moon on June 11 via Frontiers Records. The album will be released in two editions: a regular CD, and a digipak deluxe edition with bonus DVD. The DVD includes music videos of Dancer And The Moon and of The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over The Sea), plus an extensive interview with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night. A digital single of The Moon Is Shining will be released on May 6.
Take your pick from the songwriting team of Candice and Ritchie: the acoustic ‘Somewhere Over the Sea (The Moon Is Shining)’, the rocking track ‘The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over The Sea)’, along with the title track ‘Dancer And The Moon’, the nature-inspired ‘The Last Leaf’ and the Russian-influenced ‘Troika’.
Blackmore’s Night own their versions of classic rock chestnuts: RANDY NEWMAN’s ‘I Think It’s Going to Rain Today’, URIAH HEEP’s ‘Lady In Black’, and ‘The Temple of the King’ that Ritchie and the late RONNIE JAMES DIO collaborated on originally for their band, RAINBOW.
Dancer And The Moon is made complete with its inspiring instrumentals, including the waltzy ‘Galliard’ and the DEEP PURPLE-esque ‘Carry On… Jon’, that Ritchie wrote as a heartfelt tribute to his former band mate, the late Jon Lord.
Tracklist:
- I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
- Troika
- The Last Leaf
- Lady In Black
- Minstrels In The Hall
- The Temple Of The King
- Dancer And The Moon
- Galliard
- The Ashgrove
- Somewhere Over The Sea (The Moon Is Shining)
- The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over The Sea)
- The Spinner’s Tale
- Carry On… Jon
Thanks to BraveWords and Ann Leighton Media for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I started to loose interest after their third albums (which are their best ones)…too many albums and most of all too ripetitive…and even the song covers are always worst than the original…so the only interest will be ‘Carry On… Jon’ because it’s dedicated to Jon…
April 10th, 2013 at 12:23I know this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ll be looking forward to hearing this. Not that any shops will sell it in Australia, but it would be good to hear. Particularly the tribute to Jon.
April 10th, 2013 at 13:06Good to see new music being produced.
?urfect timing Ritchie. Following the new ?urp!e release and also throwing in a JON LORD tribute tune. Looks like he is riding on the ?ur?!e coat tail. Now that’s proper promotion. From reading this, it is apparent TMIB is beginning to wiggle a little regarding something more ‘Rock oriented’. Maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel after all….
CheerZ?!
April 11th, 2013 at 16:20Nice cover- better than the previous one with Sherlock Holmes in it.
April 11th, 2013 at 18:28Lady in Black ? Do we have an Uriah Heep connection ?
Richie, hang it up.
April 11th, 2013 at 21:56I cannot believe how many albums they have released in such a short time, too many, too quick in my book! I have commented on this sort of thing before, it is nothing new! Oh well, glad I listen to Loreena McKennitt, the proper way to play a mixture of traditional with a twist to a more recent! Stunning music & performance on that ‘Nights From The Alhambra’ dvd! What a performance that is, puts Blackmore’s Night in it’s place in my opinion!
April 12th, 2013 at 07:524
Well, David Coverdale almost joined them but concluded that they were not made for each other(…)
Ian Paice drums on stuff by Ken Hensley, forgot what at the moment.
Don Airey(ahem)played with ex UH drummer Lee Kerslake in Ozzy Osbourne’s band early 80’s.
UH, then still called SPICE I think, did rehearse in hanwell Community Centre at the time when IN ROCK was recorded. And supposedly got inspired by The Purps direction/sound.
David Byron could scream very well. Listen to Bird Of Prey and the Ian Gillan association is clearly there IMO.
John Lawton, who followed in Byron’s steps as a singer in UH sang Little Chalk Blue on Roger’s Butterfly Ball.
Well, actually it was not on it first but as a single.
UH’s Salisbury is another classic on which Ken Hensley tries to implement classical music into heavy rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM0f54TmSPk
Look At Yourself is my favourite and their IN ROCK IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccjddip-80k
The titletrack reminded me of Chasing Shadows because of the great percussionwork.
They are all inter-connected.
John Sloman, who sang quite shortly for UH sang for Gary Moore who hired(…)some Purple/Rainbow/Whitesnake people : Airey, Paice, Craig Gruber, Bob Daisley, Glenn Hughes
Unfortunately Glenn did not get to sing on a lot of GM material, I think because of their fall out.
I reckon demo’s with him must exist?
There is so much material that is put on shelves, never to be heard again : (
April 12th, 2013 at 09:50ad. I forgot Neil Murray. Sorry Neil : )
April 12th, 2013 at 09:51ad. Oops…..
And Cozy Powell of course.
I read that Lord is to be heard on a song by Vickie Brown, together with Gary Moore.
There is probably more.
April 12th, 2013 at 09:52Nice tribute to Jon Lord “Carry on …. Jon”
probably Ronnie James Dio with “The Temple of the King”
It will be interesting to listen to Candice
Ritchie great author and musicians of hard rock music, but the master
ballads
Ritchie, and “three hard rock tenors” .. Gillan-Coverdale-Dio
Three beautiful ballads from the seventies ..in series
“When a blind man cries” 1972
April 12th, 2013 at 15:19“Soldier of Fortune” 1974
“The Temple of the King” 1975
@3 BN pumped out albums as DP sat on the pot. As for JL tribute, RB has that same right to honor a friend as anyone else in the biz.
April 12th, 2013 at 16:56purplepriest1965 you’re right
April 12th, 2013 at 20:11I’ve heard the John Lawton almost teamed with Ritchie (they were in touch since the Hamburg days) and was on the shortlist for Purple.Roger Glover suggested his name to Heep.
Ken Hensley provided some equipment for the first BN album (look at the sleeve notes)
And Glenn Hughes did some vocals on Hensley’s albums
I’m curious about the” Lady in black (more)” rendition.
@ 7
As far as I remeber, Ian Paice played with Ken Hensley on some songs in his solo work “Free Spirit”.
And we should not forget that Peter Goalby (vocals in three UH LPs) was a former Trapeze singer.
A lot of connections after all 🙂
April 13th, 2013 at 06:29I read today that JOHN LAWTON will be replacing BERNIE SHAW in Bergen Op Zoom(The Netherlands)because the latter has to go a routine surgry.
I dont know if it is just that show.
Wonder if they ll play a different set that night, more Lawton era maybe?
April 13th, 2013 at 19:35Loved the Lawton debut with Heep on the ‘Firefly’ album. Favorite track.. Hangin’ Tree.
Ch-BeerZ?!
April 14th, 2013 at 00:12Pete Goalby was one of those men that applied for the job when Ritchie auditioned for a singer, just before they found Graham Bonnet.
April 14th, 2013 at 09:45Try some product study, Priest. Ken is a friend of Ritchie’s, you’ll find his name inside The Stranger In Us All. Not that I care, I expect another very clinical three Strat solos at best. The track at the end is really a reach if you ask me, but whatever, gotta do something, since I’m sensing he wasn’t around in any memorial capacity after the passing. Shame, but I doubt it will disgrace…. wait… always anticipating new BN material, but this time I’m a little side tracked, ha ha ha! Can’t think of a bad album in their catalog, so good it will be again, I’m sure. If good works for you. But all the talk of Heep, I need to go shave! 🙂
April 14th, 2013 at 10:32The hypocrisy of the haters is amazing.
Here is a man who made Deep Purple what it is more than any single individual and then retired from it to pursue a dream that musically he had been doing his entire life. Alleged Purple fans should be just as happy for Blackmore in his musical endeavors as they were for Jon Lord in his. If they do not like Blackmore’s Night then don’t listen to it.
However, I am sure that most do not have the albums or are familiar enough with his work to know that much of it could be Rainbow music had Dio sung it–and that throughout Blackmore’s career he had been playing this kind of music, hiding it in the rock genre–but if one cared to look, it is easy to find. This is why songs like “Temple of the King” et. al. are being covered.
As for the timing: Blackmore is due for an album. He’s been consistent. In addition, had he NOT paid some kind of tribute to his lifelong friend and collaborator, he would have been (and often has been) vilified.
I am looking forward to the next work by Ritchie Blackmore. There is one thing one must admit about this man: He never has ridden anyone’s wave.
He makes them.
April 14th, 2013 at 14:26@3 hey Tracy,as long as Candice singing in thee album,and covering others people songs,it is the same old,same old man with TMIB.The only interest I have is the tribute for Jon.
April 14th, 2013 at 17:27Hey ‘T’ @ 18,
I hope you aren’t alluding to me in your rant about ‘TMIB’ haters based on my entry @ 3. I am one whom does own ALL of his BN cds and dvds. I have attended 2 live concerts. My point was the timing and the song choice. Like I stated, he has made many remarks regarding his disassociation to PURPLE. He is paving his and his wench’s way now and has been adamant about ‘forgetting the past’. I expressed that his timing with the new BN album is ‘funky’ to say the least. It’s OK by me in the end. I love BN music. I even stated that the description of this new record ‘shows possible light at the end of the Rock Tunnel’.
Just a point of clarification for those whom question……
Ch-BeerZ?!
April 15th, 2013 at 03:1017
What am I, a Blackmore bible?!
April 15th, 2013 at 12:37never said so.
And…Happy Birthday Ritchie 😀
April 15th, 2013 at 15:01Also cheers for many more happy healthy years 8)
Yes Peter Goalby applied for the job in Rainbow before Bonnet and even recorded Since you’ve been gone.But ,according to Ritchie he did’nt fit well as he was unable to to reach some high notes,so his work was deleted and Peter did’nt get the gig.Sad.
April 15th, 2013 at 19:46Rather surprising,cause Goalby was a superb vocalist,he brought a lot of nice ideas on Heep’s Abominog and Head first.I saw him on stage with Heep and he was great,very dedicated and perfectly in tune.He “almost” joined Foreigner too..well tnot a lucky guy!
Mmmm…………didn’t Whitesnake announce the release of their ‘Made in Japan’ before DP announced their whowotwherenext thing?………So, going by logic posted on here, who is riding who’s coattails? I have to say, it’s a bit silly moaning about ol’ Blackers rate of studio album release, 8 in 16yrs, when DP’s is 5 in 13yrs. You wouldn’t complain if it was the other way round, and that’s a fact! It’s all a load of old guff anyway, just be happy they CAN still release something.
April 20th, 2013 at 15:17Mmmmmm… “In Gillan’s Pants” @ 24
How is it in there?? Warm and sweaty???
Yes TMIB has put out quite a few records with BN. THEY ALL SOUND THE SAME!!!! Yes Purple has only put out 5 records now in the same period. THEY ALL SOUND DIFFERENT!!! Basically we would have a shit load of Purple albums sounding the same had Ritchie stayed on. I love the difference…
CASE CLOSED.
Ch-BeerZ?!
April 22nd, 2013 at 02:34One more Heep – Blackmore connection…..Mark Clarke (bass) played with Heep (Demon’s Wizards) and with Rainbow after Jimmy Bain but did not record with Rainbow.
June 6th, 2013 at 19:41What a crappy discussion. TMIB contribution to purple made songs to the set list from every album he was on, and great ones to. Except maybe slaves and masters and they still stays in the set most of them. More than you can say after his departure, So let the man be, and do what he wants. I rather listen to his classical guitar tunes and the electric ones rather than non at all even if they only might be 10% of the material. He comes around when HE wants to or not at all. I as one of us would love to hear him do some rock again but what the fuck I would like to hear him with Jon again and Paicy never gonna happened.
June 8th, 2013 at 16:48Maybe to take it even futher down the road of silly whishes replace Joe in BCC and take in DC on vocals, bann Hughes from singin leads more than maybe 2 songs and force him take his natural roll behind DC. AND GIVE SHERNIAN A LOT MOORE SPACE. call it Something else than BCC and give us a good album. Just an album for the love of music classical bluesy rocky progressive stuff.
But still let the songwriting have first priority. not like the BCC albums that sounds the same song all over.
Yes, Goalby was in Rainbow for a brief time, even demoed Since Youve Been Gone. He is finally releasing his lost solo album from the late 80s next mont.
October 29th, 2021 at 00:08https://outsiderrock.ca/2021/09/27/peter-goalby-former-uriah-heep-and-trapeze-frontman-returns-with-first-solo-album-after-30-years/