Artist: BLACKMORE'S NIGHT
Album: UNDER A VIOLET MOON RE-RELEASE (CD)

Release date: 1999/ 2006
Media type: CD

Following his global success as Deep Purple and Rainbow’s guitarist and main composer, Blackmore changed his musical form of expression in the mid-Nineties and founded Blackmore’s Night together with his partner, Candice Night. Fans and press were equally fascinated by their 1997 debut album, Shadow Of The Moon, with its successful mix of wonderful melodies and magnificent guitar parts. “In the beginning, my fingers were not used to the acoustic guitar,” Blackmore recalls the early stages, which apparently were not so easy for him. “With Deep Purple we often played wild stuff, which never seemed to sound wrong. You just let your guitar howl and whimper, and people were deeply impressed. An acoustic guitar requires a totally different technique.” Shadow Of The Moon stayed in the German album charts for 17 weeks and went gold in Japan. The band toured churches, opera houses, theatres and castles all over the world with their next release, Under A Violet Moon, out in spring 1999, which went to no. 20 in Germany and to no. 12 in the Japanese charts. As the very successful european tour still continues, these two classic albums are available again. The fan demand is there.

TRACKLIST:

1. Under A Violet Moon
2. Castles And Dreams
3. Past Times With Good Company
4. Morning Star
5. Avalon
6. Possum Goes To Prague
7. Wind In The Willows
8. Gone With The Wind
9. Beyond The Sunset
10. March The Heroes Home
11. Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well)
12. Catharine Howard's Fate
13. Fool's Gold
14. Durch Den Wald Zum Bach Haus
15. Now And Then
16. Self Portrait