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Album Tracks:

1. Renaissance Faire (trad. By Tielman Susato, Blackmore, Night)
   • Composed By [Traditional Composition] – T. Susato*
   • On this song Ritchie plays a mandolin.  “I went to the second hand guitar shop and said: “I’d like to have a mandolin and a manual on how to play it.” They had a mandolin, but did not know how to play it. So I played it as if it were a guitar.
2. Memmingen (Instrumental) (Blackmore)
   • RB: Memmingen is a medieval German city. On the city quare a kind of theater play happens every four years. Everyone is wearing antique clothes, the setting is authentic – really fascinating! I have been there once, and dedicate the song to this tradition.
3. No Second Chance (Blackmore, Night)
   •  RB: I like to play a solo on stage, otherwise I hold myself back. On the one hand, a long solo would have ruined the song, and on the other hand I did not want to sound like a guitarist from our time. Most guitarists hit a song with a solo as if it were a tank. In my opinion, the melody – so to speak an elongation of the vocals – should be up-front.
4. Mond Tanz (Instrumental) (Blackmore)
   • Mondtanz is German for moon dance.
5. Spirit of the Sea (Blackmore, Night)
6. Greensleeves (trad.)
   • Arranged By – R. Blackmore*
   • Composed By [Traditional Composition] – Anonymous
7. Wish You Were Here (Rednex Cover) (Leskela Teijo)
   • Written-By – L. Teijo*
   • https://www.discogs.com/artist/718025-Leskel%C3%A4-Teijo
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Rednex_song)
8. Minstrel Hall (Strings Version) (Blackmore)

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reviews:

• Darker Than Blue Issue #50, February 1998 http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/dtb50/dtb50.html#11
• BLACKMORE’S NIGHT
  SHADOW OF THE MOON : UK : Edel 0099 022WHE : Oct 1997 CD
• “As a guitarist of 30 years pro & amateur experience, I know only too well the difficulties in reconciling your advancing years with a desire for musical progression. Off-hand, I can only think of one “elder statesman” guitarist (Beck) who still retains the fire and inventiveness of those days. Is it fair to expect any guitarist to continually expand his musical horizons whilst retaining the spark of youth in his playing? Unfortunately not; guitarists are only human after all. Will a die-hard fan still hope for that? Inevitably.
• Shadow Of The Moon – clearly a RB song -pumped up, it could be a Rainbow song, but restrained and nicely sung. No solo? Shock horror! Excellent production work – everything is clear with acoustic to the forefront as one would hope. The Clock Ticks On – yeuch: synthesised medieval instruments. Rather cliched lyrics, but they fit in with the overall theme of the record. RB has clearly applied his knowledge of medieval syncopation to write what could have been a formal dance number. Again, the singing is a bit laid back for my taste; I’m sure with more studio experience Candice will open her lungs a bit more.
• Be Mine Tonight – a pleasing 3/4 tempo, not unlike a Paul Simon song. The chorus on this one is more clearly defined & benefits from being so. The brief arpeggiated guitar section helps with the structure of the song, if rather predictably. Ocean Gypsy – a beautiful opening mood turned into a song I’ve known & loved for years. A chance to draw comparisons for the first time. I played the original & this back to back a few times without any real conclusions. Yes, I prefer the original (Annie Haslam has a voice you’d struggle to match) but Candice delivers it sympathetically, albeit lacking in any passion. The song is beautiful and delivered with sensitivity. I hoped RB would let himself go a little here & give us one of those “bringing tears to the eyes” solos, but no, restraint seems to be his watchword.
• Writing On The Wall – oh dear, I thought, more cod-classical rubbish, but what do we have here? Euro-pop??? Yes indeedy, the Man In Black reveals for perhaps the first time a wry sense of humour in his range of musical genres (previously somewhat limited). Great chorus, clipped & wonderful licks, slide guitar & a superbly cheesy drum-machine. Gawd, more spine-tingling guitar; please don’t fade, please, oh sh*t, it’s fading. Whether he had to use the classical refrain instead of an original one is debatable, but for me it works. Strange that it has been programmed into the middle of an otherwise coherent set of songs, but I’m just glad it’s there. So I say “More songs taking this kind of musical risk please!”
• So then what does this leave us with? I applaud him for breaking his self-adopted mould, taking the odd chance (viz. Europop), authentic medieval structures & playing, sympathetic production, clearly articulated acoustic work, fairly catchy melodies (in the main) and creditable singing. I mark it down on a lack of passion throughout, with RB as guilty as Candice, with far less excuses to his name. Candice should be proud of her debut but will hopefully gain in confidence as their personal & musical relationship develops.” Nick “don’t shoot me I’m only his brother” Robinson
• My thanks for all the mail, and especially to Nick for tackling this delicate task with a far more lenient hand than I could have brung to it. We played the CD (myself and Ann) at first with interest, feeling at last he’d tackled something if not radically new, then at least a little different. As the disc wore on however our frustration grew. The very flat vocal approach, almost country and western in feel, set out on one level and simply stayed there. Fine for a couple of songs but deadly dull over a whole CD. I’ve absolutely no idea where Blackmore intended to go with this record, though as he’d had total control one can but assume he did what he set out to do, but he seems ensured of a reasonable audience if he wants to pursue this avenue further. To me the CD doesn’t really satisfy on any level. It neither works emotionally, being almost totally devoid of feeling, nor does it threaten to break any boundaries anywhere, and it certainly won’t find any admirers amongst fans of true ancient music. Ann – who has tapes of that sort of music – assures me that technically, Blackmore is absolutely spot on – but at the price of losing any shred of soul in his playing – save from the odd spot of electric work here and there which show he still has what it takes to move mountains.
• A reader writes in to More Black Thank Purple printed in Issue #5: “Ritchie wanted to make an album like this for years, and it’s just a really good album, it’s very well produced. I like Candice’s singing on it. He’s playing really well . . . it’s just a really nice departure and it’s very well played. I think it’s really good; I hope he does well with it. Quite surprised, but very pleasantly surprised. (Cozy Powell, Berkshire, England)

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Lead up to the Album:

• After leaving Deep Purple which Ritchie referred to as “the monster machine” he said he figured he’d put Rainbow back together.  Ritchie says “it was an easy get out” but that his heart was not into it.
• Ritchie was working at Longview Farm and Ritchie said he was going to fly in a professional lyric writer.  He called Candice and said that before he did that he wanted Candice to put down some lyrics as she traveled up to see him.
• Candice got to 14 verses and gave them to Ritchie and Pat and they circled the ones they liked and put the song together.
• Ritchie and Candice started writing acoustic songs at home for themselves and had no intention to release them.
• Ritchie said that it was so fun because there was no pressure and it was very freeing.
• Pat Regan says that the Blackmore’s Night thing came together when at the end of a day of recording they’d get together and jam.  Regan had a record label and thought to bring them together to do a recording of this with the intention of it being a one off thing.
• Ritchie says in doing this project he was putting together melodies that were similar to what he was doing with Rainbow without being hard rock.  He had a lot of faith that fans would follow it.
• Ritchie saw a band at a castle in Germany playing renaissance music with authentic instruments and he said that’s what he wanted to do. He even asked them if they wanted a guitar player.  Ritchie called it “a fantastic underground world.” He said that playing in front of very large rock crowds wasn’t as meaningful.
• Candice said she never had any real intention to be a singer or in a band but it sort of evolved this way. She was very self-conscious and considered herself a “closet singer.”
• Candice said they met in 1989, Ritchie says they met in 1889.
• The story goes that he met her after a soccer match and told her “you’re a very beautiful girl.” He then sent his roadies to get her information and ask her if she wanted to meet up for a drink at a pub and they talked for hours.
• Ritchie asked her what she could do, because he would always ask people to “give something” of themselves: singing, dancing, juggling, etc.
• Ritchie says that there doesn’t seem to be anyone else “doing what we do. There’s probably a good reason for that.”
• On this album Ritchie was using an Alvarez acoustic and sometimes a Taylor.  “Taylors sound a bit rough in the studio. The amp was a Crate and was picked up via a microphone. I also used an ENGL amp from time to time.

Core Band:

• Band [The Minstrel Hall Consort], Cello – Tom Brown (6)
• Band [The Minstrel Hall Consort], Recorder, Trumpet, French Horn – Gerald Flashman
• Band [The Minstrel Hall Consort], Viola, Violin – Lady Green
• Band, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Drum, Tambourine – Ritchie Blackmore
• Band, Keyboards – Pat Regan
• Band, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Candice Night
• Performer – The Minstrel Hall Consort
• Ian Anderson – flute on “Play, Minstrel, Play”
• Scott Hazell – backing vocals on “Play, Minstrel, Play”

Technical:

• Producer – Pat Regan, Ritchie Blackmore
• Engineer, Mixed By – Pat Regan
  • Produced Kiss, Quiet Riot, Weird Al, Stranger In Us All
• Mastered By – Brad Vance

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  • Background is mostly with Blackmore’s Night albums.
• Cover [Art Work] – Johanna Pieterman
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1. Shadow of the Moon (Blackmore, Night)
2. The Clock Ticks On (trad. By Tielman Susato, Blackmore, Night)
   • Composed By [Traditional Composition] – T. Susato*
     1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tielman_Susato
   • Candice says they have a “Blackmorizing Machine” where he hears old songs, puts them through this “machine” and they come out something entirely different.
3. Be Mine Tonight (Blackmore, Night)
4. Play Minstrel Play (trad. By Pierre Attaignant, Blackmore, Night)
   • Backing Vocals – Scott Hazell
   • Only credit is this and a song on Under a Violet Moon
   • Served as guitar tech for Ritchie Blackmore from 1995 through 1997 as well as some background vocals for Rainbow.
   • Guest, Flute – Ian Anderson
   • Songwriter [Traditional Song] – P. Attaingnant*
     1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Attaingnant
   • RB: On this song we played together for the first time. I sent him the tape, and he played his part and sent the tape back. That was it. I’ve admired Ian for a very long time; we’ve known each other for over 25 years.
5. Ocean Gypsy (Renaissance Cover) (Dunford, Thatcher)
   • Written-By – B. Thatcher*, M. Dunford*
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Thatcher
   • https://www.discogs.com/artist/571852-Michael-Dunford
   • RB: We did not write that song. That’s a song that was written back in 1975 by another group called Renaissance. We’ve always loved that track. We used to play it around the house just for fun. Most of these songs that are only the LP, CD, we played in the beginning for fun, which is the best way I think of approaching music. It wasn’t hard work. It was very easy to make this CD … because we knew these songs, we played them to our friends, we had good fun playing them. And “Ocean Gypsy” was one of our favourite songs.
   • RB: With Deep Purple every song had to be composed by the band. Just for the credits! Bullshit! You play a song because you like it and not because you have written it yourself.
   • CN: “”Ocean Cypsy was a song that was given to us on a tape by Annie Halslam who used to sing for Renaissance, and Ritchie went to see here with a friend of his one night in a club which she was performing. And he brought home all these little tapes that she had given him, and we played them when we were livin gin Connecticut …. We don’t live there anly more. We were sitting outside one day, just listening to the tpea, and Ocean Gypsy was one song that stitch in my mind. And then we moved, and we packed the tapes, and we didn’t see those tapes for years. And I always remembered Oveam Cyptsey was always in my head. Then one day I just started hummin it around the kitchen and ritchie picked up laying it, and we had to go and find the tape and rummage through all our tapes so we could find out what the words were, and what the rest of the chords were. But that was just one of those haunting melodies that sticks in your head.
6. Minstrel Hall (Instrumental) (Blackmore)
7. Magical World (Trad Wassail, Blackmore, Night)
   • Composed By [Traditional Composition] – Wassail
8. Writing on the Wall (trad. By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Blackmore, Night)
   • Composed By [Traditional Composition] – P. Tchaikovsky*
   • https://www.discogs.com/artist/999914-Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky
   • On this song Ritchie plays a strat.  “I wanted to surprised people at first. First they hear medieval music and suddenly the thing turns into a disco beat.

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Lead up to the Album:

• Previous album was “Trilogy” which seems to get more critical acclaim.  The Johansson brothers were on that as well with singer Mark Boals.
• He got into a bad car accident leading up to recording this album. He describes the accident in ana interview here:https://metalheadzone.com/yngwie-malmsteen-recalls-his-horrible-car-crash/
  • “My car crash of 1987 was a horrible thing. But worse things happened to me at the same time. First, I had that car accident. Then my mother died. Then I was ripped off for all my money. It was just a horrible time, you know? But when you’ve been struck down that hard, you either come back stronger – or you don’t. If you put an obstacle in front of me, I will crush it, and I will go forward. I am impossible to stop. I cannot be stopped.”

Core Band:

• Bass Guitar – Bob Daisley (tracks: 1, 2, 8, 9), Yngwie J. Malmsteen* (tracks: 3 to 7, 10 to 12)
• Drums – Anders Johansson
  • https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Johansson_(trumslagare)
  • Swedish drummer and percussionist. Son of jazz pianist Jan Johansson, brother of Jens Johansson.
  • In bands Silver Mountain and Hammerfall.
• Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Yngwie J. Malmsteen*
  • https://www.yngwiemalmsteen.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngwie_Malmsteen
  • Previously in band Alcatrazz.
  • Born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck. At age 12, he took his mother’s maiden name Malmsten as his surname, then slightly changed it to Malmsteen and altered his third given name Yngve to “Yngwie”.
• Keyboards [All] – Jens Johansson
  • http://www.panix.com/~jens/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Johansson
  • Swedish pianist.
  • Was in jazz fusion band Slem and also Silver Mountain.
  • Currently in the Finnish power metal band Stradovarius and in Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow.
• Vocals – Joe Lynn Turner

Technical:

• Producer [Produced By] – Jeff “Björn” Glixman*, Yngwie J. Malmsteen*
• Engineer – Jeff Glixman
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Glixman
  • Produced Kansas, Kiss Paul Stanley solo album, Gary Moore, Black Sabbath’s “Seventh Star” album, 
• Engineer [@ House Of Music] – John Rollo
  • Worked at Konk studio.
  • Worked on production for Bonnie Tyler, Joe Cocker.
• Executive-Producer – Jim Lewis
  • http://www.notc.com/Content/Spotlights/1987/PolyGram_A-R-4-87.pdf
  • JIM LEWIS, VP of A&R Jim has been a member of the PolyGram A&R staff since early 1n 1986. He is responsible for signing established acts such as The Moody Blues and Emerson, Lake And Powell; as well as newcomers Yngwie J. Malmsteen and TNT. Prior to working in A&R, he worked for six years as V.P. of Marketing and International Repertoire where he worked with PolyGram International originating acts such as Def Leppard, Tears For Fears, ABC, Big Country, Bananarama and many more. J im began his musical career playing in bands and major orchestras in the Metropolitan area. He 1s a graduate of the Jullliard School and holds an MBA 1n Marketing from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
  • Signed Bon Jovi, Prior to working in A&R worked on acts like Def Leppard and Tears for Fears.
• Mixed By [@ Bearsville Studios, Assisted By] – George Cowan
  • http://www.georgecowan.me/
  • Chief Engineer at Bearsville Studios.
• Mixed By [@ Bearsville Studios] – Mike Barbiero*
  • Produced the soundtrack for “Serpico” in 1973.
• Mixed By [@ Bearsville Studios] – Steve Thompson
  • https://www.stevethompsonproductions.com/
  • Worked with Madonna, Whitney Houston (“I Wanna Dance With Somebody”), as well as many other clients including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, John Lennon, and The Rolling Stones.
• Management – Larry Mazer
  • Manager of Cinderella and The Steve Morse Band. Also worked with Kiss on the “Revenge” album.
• Management [Agency Representative] – Phil Ernst
  • Booking agent for Cinderella, Molly Hatchet.
• Management [Agency] – ICM (2), Phil Ernst
• Management [Associate] – Roni Jane Feldman
  • Also worked with Cinderella.
• Management [Business Management] – Bruce Kolbrenner
  • Worked with Bon Jovi.
• Recorded By [@ Cherokee Studios, Assisted By], Mixed By [@ Cherokee Studios, Assisted By] – Scott Gordon
  • Founded Triad Music which does scores for films and TV.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Art Direction – Michael Bays
  • Graphic designer who worked with a number of artists in the late 80s including James Brown, Bar-Kays, Kurtis Blow.
• Art Direction – Pat Drosins*
  • Art director who worked with Tony! Toni! Tone! And Gorky Park.
• Photography By – Mark “Weissguy” Weiss*
  • http://markweissgallery.com/
  • https://www.weissguygallery.com/
  • Did visual work for many bands including Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P., Dio, Ratt, Dokken, Ozzy, and many more.
• Design – Chris Thompson (18)
  • Worked with may of the same people as Michael Bays and Pat Drosins.

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Album Tracks:

All lyrics are written by Joe Lynn Turner; all music is composed by Yngwie Malmsteen.

1. Rising Force
2. Hold On
3. Heaven Tonight
   • Single release
4. Dreaming (Tell Me)
5. Bite the Bullet (instrumenttal)
6. Riot in the Dungeons
   • B-side to Heaven Tonight

1. Deja Vu
2. Crystal Ball
3. Now Is The Time
4. Faster than the Speed of Light
5. Krakatau (instrumental)
6. Memories (instrumental)

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

• Overall this was Yngwie’s best charting album reaching #7 in the Swedish charts, and #40 in the US charts, #19 in Japan and #27 in the UK. Later albums would chart much better in Japan but he never reached these heights again in the US or UK charts.

Reviews:

• Steve Huey from AllMusic
• https://www.allmusic.com/album/odyssey-mw0000651948
• Odyssey is a more subdued, polished collection seemingly designed for mainstream radio airplay. Vocalist Joe Lynn Turner gives the set a smooth, professional feel, and Yngwie Malmsteen’s playing is more mellow, due partly to the fact that he was still recovering from his near-fatal car accident when the album was recorded. However, all of this works to the detriment of the music: the mellowness of Malmsteen’s guitar work makes him sound constrained and passionless, and the album shows little difference in approach from his previous output, lending credence to critics’ charges that Malmsteen plays with mindless technique at the expense of substance, fire, and emotion.
• Kerrang review by Mick Wall:

For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_(Yngwie_Malmsteen_album)
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1242071-Yngwie-J-Malmsteens-Rising-Force-Odyssey
• https://www.allmusic.com/album/odyssey-mw0000651948
• https://metalheadzone.com/yngwie-malmsteen-recalls-his-horrible-car-crash/

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