Blackmore's Night - Dancer And The Moon (2013)

Year: 11 June 2013 (CD 2013)
Label: Frontiers Records (Europe), FR CDVD 605
Style: Folk Rock, New Age
Country: UK, US
Time: 53:14
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 371 Mb

"We find that the Dancer and the moon is visually and emotionally representative of how we feel about our music. We have always had a very strong pull to the mystery of the moon. Her magic, her power, her legend…She affects us so deeply that we have named many CDs after her and she is almost always represented in our songs. The dancer herself is completely, unabashedly and whole heartedly moved by the intensity of the music she feels within her soul. As the music, the moon and the dance are what inspired us…we thought it to be a true relationship."
Well, there you have it folks. The music and concept of Blackmore’s Night is and apparently always has been largely inspired by the moon and all her wondrous power. “Dancer and the moon” is a supposed culmination of everything the band have done musically since their foundation in 1997, but that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily their best. And unfortunately, it actually proves to be one of the band’s weakest efforts so far. Now, before all of you devoted fans start slinging hate mail my way for even considering a Blackmore’s night album to be less than decent, there are enough reasons for my saying so.
Firstly, the few positives of the album should be noted. It seems that since the band’s last album, “Autumn sky”, Ritchie Blackmore has been taking on a more prominent role within the band and apparently plays the majority of the instruments, including those that contribute to a more folk-inspired sound such as the mandola, nickelharpe and hurdy gurdy. In fact, he pretty much wrote every song on “Dancer and the moon”, and those that weren’t written by him were simply cover versions of Uriah Heep, Randy Newman and his very own band who were in their prime three and a half decades ago, Rainbow. His guitar performance on songs such as the eccentric title track and ‘The last leaf’ is undoubtedly precise and well-executed, and his usage of the folk instrumentation on songs such as the melancholic ‘Troika’ and upbeat instrumental ‘Galliard’ are rather decent, considering he hasn’t really used them before.
(full version: sputnikmusic.com/review/57534/Blackmores-Night-Dancer-And-The-Moon/)

01. I Think It's Going To Rain Today (03:54)
02. Troika (03:30)
03. The Last Leaf (04:05)
04. Lady In Black (05:48)
05. Minstrels In The Hall (02:38)
06. Temple Of The King (04:26)
07. Dancer And The Moon (04:55)
08. Galliard (02:00)
09. The Ashgrove (02:21)
10. Somewhere Over the Sea (The Moon is Shining) (04:07)
11. The Moon is Shining (Somewhere Over the Sea) (06:19)
12. The Spinner's Tale (03:30)
13. Carry On... Jon (05:37)

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