AFM Records will release Blackmore`s Night winter album!

[Wyvern]

Candice and Ritchie have always loved the winter: the brisk clean air on a frosty eve when you can feel all your senses alive with the season - smell the wood fires burning, see your breath linger in the frosty air, feel the snowflakes fall upon your face. It evokes festivities and bright candlelight, and music that was sung and performed for hundreds of years by minstrels of the Middle Ages – many of these songs still emerge today during the winter season. This is their interpretation of many favourite carols, shared, performed and enjoyed for the past 400 years.

Candice: “The holiday season has always embodied joy, love, peace, togetherness. The sentiments of the holidays are what we try to express in our music.”

Ritchie: “The origin of the word carol means ‘dance’ back in the mid 1500s. Most of the Christmas Carols are from the 1400s, 1500s, 1600s. They are brilliant melodies. I am naturally attracted to these melodies – as a kid of 10, 11, 12, I would go from house to house during the holiday time and sing them just to earn some money. Now, as an adult, I thought I could play them and make more money.”

I'm not fond of carols but I have to love Ritchie for his frankness

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Another classic Blackmore quote! I don't know about this one...I love BN, but the christmas carol thing might be too much. I already have TSO for that kind of thing. Still, I want to hear it once before passing judgement.