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Unwaveringly inspired
Goldmine magazine reviews Candice Night’s recent solo album Sea Glass, released earlier this year:
Sea Glass is drenched in classically resounding pure folk and soft rock incantations, conjuring up the spirit of true singer/songwriter compositions and productions. Save for a few selections which bring in a slightly heavier production quality, the album is reminiscent of classic era folk artists who use modest orchestrations and deep storytelling to convey their songs. Here, Night’s vocals blatantly take center stage throughout the whole of the album and present some of her most impressive vocal performances over her three-album solo run. Her tonality and her voice deliveries are more heartfelt and personal than we’ve ever experienced them previously to these recordings. There are sporadic renaissance-inflected sonic influences that are obvious to her music created with Blackmore’s Night (especially with regard to the instrumental, “Dark Carnival” and the track, “When I Want To Fly”), and though that style of music seems to fit naturally with her (seeing as how she is well-versed in many medieval-period instruments), this is by far not a Blackmore’s Night album, nor is it as pop-driven as her previous solo efforts. It is evident that every unique selection found within is all unwaveringly inspired totally and wholly from the mind and the individualistic musical mentality of Candice Night, and Night alone.
Read more in Goldmine.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The album pretty much fell on deaf ears here at the HS – interest in Candice when with (almost) no Ritchie seems to be muted – and I admit that I only bought it out of sheer curiosity (I would have gotten it even without the two tracks where Ritchie guests in a barely noticeable way), not having been a fan of Ms Blackmore‘s first two solo outings (her debut and the lullabies one). But hark and listen: The album is actually quite good, more adult, better lyrics (mostly around relationships) than the Renaissance Faire waffle, and unlike most BN releases relatively cringe-free. Candice’s own compositions on this album (there is no songwriting input from Ritchie) are actually less Schlager than a lot of her husband’s own songs and cover choices. Yes, it‘s New Age’ish and spiritual, but for the most part not cheesy.
Even for skeptics worth a listen if they have retained an open mind.
October 9th, 2025 at 05:55noooo!! leave me alone!! heeeeelp!! 😱
October 9th, 2025 at 13:11Like Goldmine says, the album has pretty much a Carly Simon vibe. Now Carly, gorgeous as she is, was no Carole King or Laura Nyro in the songwriting department nor a Joni Mitchell as regards the seamless incorporation of more sophisticated and eclectic elements into her music, but you could do worse than listen to one of her records and she wasn‘t just You‘re So Vain either.
https://youtu.be/hjM4SWoJ59E
There is a progression in Candice‘s music from what we heard on the BN debut to Sea Glass that really isn‘t matched by her hubby‘s path during the same nearly 30 years – not that a lot of Ritchie‘s fans want him to change too much! 😈 Granted, she is much younger and development is not always evenly spaced over a person‘s life cycle.
October 9th, 2025 at 13:46I see this stuff clearly in Scientology meetings…
October 10th, 2025 at 05:09@2
Ohhh man I hear you 😱🙈
October 10th, 2025 at 08:51Oh my, you Candice-haters! 😂
What an unlikely choice for me of all people to be – to semantically frolic in the magical realms of her and her hubby’s cute little reactionary folk duo – her knight in shining armor here. 😇 Where is my Robin Hood outfit?
Taylor Swift, Yoko Ono and now Candice, this site is a cauldron of unabashed misogyny. 😱
And yes, liebe Karin, wimmin can be misogynistic too, in fact they all are, by nature!!! 😂
October 10th, 2025 at 12:17@6
Hey you Uwe! Listen up:
I am certainly no woman hater, far from it.
Had I, otoh, shamelessly admired every female-singer just because she was a woman, you would have every reason to shame me BIG TIME!
I adore a lot of female singers, this one is a big favourite of mine:
https://youtu.be/f5bCqZLlCC8?si=aGD3_eS7_joaEK_c
And this:
https://youtu.be/eVvjKA22MYs?si=QDl_ix3mTk5KDt3P
And this one:
https://youtu.be/KUhBc35T-e4?si=LmxKla5LRsUfJm4x
And this lady:
https://youtu.be/ykIRhszzm9U?si=irs_QeakQGGJoH94
Not to forget this beauty:
https://youtu.be/UqQ0R7OXYVY?si=mzSVpzZds9893MiZ
And of course this girl:
https://youtu.be/BBOUR6hNQsU?si=gc6gsLzDqpCvP0qk
And this amazing woman:
https://youtu.be/SvCyFHWBUlc?si=chSBKLY-moZD00A8
And finally:
https://youtu.be/l1C8NFDdFYg?si=Otf-4ay37RO3GQCm
So mister, eat your words 😄
And btw: I didn’t say anything bad about Yoko, I merely cited a Beatles fansite.
The reason I don’t listen to Taylor Swift is because she has a long history of out shaming her former boyfriends.
Candice is a very nice lady, I’m sure, but no I really don’t like her voice.
And voices are so important for me (you know the colour thing in my head..)
Ohhh forgot this lady:
https://youtu.be/EIgVCU19pjg?si=yUmdEf5b5-wJJbzg
I accept apologies in different forms 😃
October 10th, 2025 at 16:07@4
Really AndreA? Oh noo 😮
I know a tiny bit of Scientology, they were quite big in Denmark in the 70s, where most people didn’t know anything about them.
October 10th, 2025 at 16:48But hey, you don’t say CN is involved with them?
How did poor Candice end up being accused of being Scientology? Last I heard she was born Candice Lauren Isralow with Polish roots and belongs to the chosen people
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/343178/candice-night-on-blackmores-nights-winter-carols-album/
(She talks about her Jewishness at 09:05 and – unrelated – also divulges towards the end of the interview that her nickname for her hubby is “Badge” for badger.)
https://youtu.be/JxKDyd-POKg
(= a Jewish song sung in Hebrew)
just like her predecessor(ess) Amy Rothman was/is.
I rule out that someone who
– grew up with the teachings of the Torah and the Talmud, two of the most foundational religious works in the world,
– and generally has his/her head screwed on right,
would fall for the mind warp bogus of “Dianetics” as cooked up by a pulp SciFi and fantasy writer by the name of L. Ron Hubbard.
Holy Xenu, what’s next, that Ritchie is an Operating Thetan?
October 11th, 2025 at 05:56No no no
October 11th, 2025 at 06:35@9
“How did poor Candice end up being accused of being Scientology?”
– Uwe this is how gossip starts!
But it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if she was a devotee of LRH. Many a celeb dives into something like that, or Kabbalah (the mysterious Jewish variety where the red string around one’s wrist should protect against ‘evil eyes’, among other subtleties) to somehow cope with the overwhelming popularity… oh wait, my mistake ☺️😉
Well, even your favourites, the Beatles, turned themselves to eastern mystery 😃
At the moment at fb dianetik is very much happening with all kinds of advertising!
“I rule out that someone who
– grew up with the teachings of the Torah and the Talmud, two of the most foundational religious works in the world,
– and generally has his/her head screwed on right,
would fall for the mind warp bogus of “Dianetics” as cooked up by a pulp SciFi and fantasy writer by the name of L. Ron Hubbard.”
– well, never say never Uwe! Maybe even your girl from the cow-land is into something ‘bigger than herself’!
I don’t judge anyone, but what I don’t like is when people are manipulated out of their wits!
How did you find TS’s new album? Haven’t heard any yodeling from you 😃
October 11th, 2025 at 12:33I didn’t say she belongs to Scientology, I said that I see her music playing well in those meetings…
October 11th, 2025 at 14:28a bit of settw stuff, in short…
I haven’t bought it yet, but will!
October 11th, 2025 at 20:18I have a hunch, Scientology get together music is a bit more on the AOR, blue-eyed soul, devotional side! 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXne-DNEmLA
I think I prefer to stand tall with Handsom Dick Manitoba and his NYC boys …
https://rickkeenemusicscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/dictators.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VbBuQRzWvo
October 12th, 2025 at 01:04@1, Kinda like Yoko doing an album without John.
October 13th, 2025 at 11:48Buttocks, how incredibly nasty you can be! 😂
Really, there is nothing John & Yoko about Ritc(h)andice at all, the two are more like The Captain & Tennille!
https://youtu.be/_QNEf9oGw8o
https://youtu.be/z_XfJyrNLRQ
John & Yoko at least always had the good taste and wits to not dress up in Renaissance garb to perform a Dylan song, let me tell you that … 😎
https://youtu.be/oLS5rVox7jw
That vid had to be shot fast, Irish Wolfhounds have been bred to such a degenerate state by man that they only have an average life expectancy of something like six years. A lady in our town used to own two which she would take for walks in our nearby forest, they were friggin’ huge, out-of-scale so to say. Impressive (and mild mannered), but incest-ridden. One day, both were gone.
October 13th, 2025 at 13:11@ 16. Very true Uwe 🤣
October 14th, 2025 at 12:07