Artist: CANDICE NIGHT/ BLACKMORES NIGHT
Album: REFLECTIONS (CD)

Year: 2011
Media type: CD

In part fantasy, part weaver of magic, part willow the wisp: Candice Night. For 15 years she has been entwining lyrics based on legend with reflections of ourselves in her words set to music to transport the listener to another realm. She is emulated by children, young mothers, and all women
young at heart throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Some of Candice's personal thoughts on Reflections:

These songs span a range of times and a range of emotions and inspirations. The 1st song I ever wrote words and music to combined was Black Roses. It was back in 1995 and I was writing lyrics for Rainbow at that point. I had an overflow of lyrics and I asked Ritchie if he could come up with some more music for me to put the words to. He was so caught up in the writing for Rainbow that he advised me to go write my own music. Being originally schooled in piano from a young age, I thought the best way for me to write was to do it on a piano. We didn't have one at that point, so I found an ad in a local paper advertising an old piano from an elderly couple that was moving away. They said it had been in their family for generations and brought a lot of joy and music to their lives, but could no longer keep it. We brought it home, and later that night, as I sat in a darkly lit room, I started to play and the music for Black Roses flowed out. I looked up after playing and saw in the reflection of my window, a man lit in an auburn light standing behind me. Assuming it was Ritchie I spoke to him for a few minutes. When I received no response, I looked up again and there was no one there. Searching for Ritchie around the house, I found him playing guitar upstairs in the den. He said he had never been downstairs that night at all.

Many of the songs I came up with on that piano seem to be haunting and eastern European based. Alone With Fate was the second song written on
it and I always pictured it with a gypsy tavern like feel. Perhaps with Marlene Dietrich singing it in a smoky dimly lit bar.

Now And Then I wrote while I was singing and writing with Blackmore's Night, but when I played it for Ritchie, he decided to take out the middle part and make it a shorter song. I have now replaced that original part and it exists now as it was originally created, in its entirety.

In Time was the 1st instrumental I wrote by myself and it is also the song that, at my wedding, my bridesmaids walked down the aisle to. It, now, always reminds me of that magical moment in time.

The producer, Pat Regan, and I, had a very unconventional way of putting these songs together. Since he is here in New York for a few months of the year while we record our Blackmore's Night songs, I was able to sit with him before our BN sessions and do my vocal tracks, harmonies and anything else that needed to be done while he was here, without taking too much time away from our main project. We would discuss the feel of the songs and what I had in mind as far as instrumentation and arrangements and then when he returned to LA he would send me sound files of the songs and how they began to become as I heard them in my mind. I would then use the time-codes and ask for adjustments to be made, different instruments, drum fills, arrangement modifications, and we would go back and forth like that until it was as I imagined it to be. Upon his return to NY
we got our violinist, Gypsy Rose, to do some amazing violin parts on the songs and they became what you now hear...

TRACKLIST:

1. Wind Is Calling (Hush The Wind)
2. Gone Gone Gone
3. Black Roses
4. Now And Then
5. Dangerous Smile
6. For You
7. Call It Love
8. Robin Red Breast
9. Alone With Fate
10. In Time