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Legendary members of DEEP PURPLE and RAINBOW, Ritchie Blackmore, and his wife, singer Candice Night, discussed their use of non-traditional instruments in their medieval and Renaissance band BLACKMORE’S NIGHT in a recent interview with Long Island Weekly.
“To be honest, I am not too interested in the current approach with modern instruments.” Synthesizers are used on some projects, but their main purpose is to help us plan how to employ the other instruments coming forward. It all comes down to reverting to the fundamentals of simple music.
He clarified, “Melody is really essential to me.” It is a significant matter. Because of this, even in DEEP PURPLE, our music was a little bit monophonic in the last moments before I departed. There was not too much melody, and I can not be inspired if I can not hear a melody. Not death metal or anything, but I believe that a lot of hard rock bands these days lack melody, and I find that hard to relate to.”
Although Blackmore co-founded DEEP PURPLE and composed many of the band’s most iconic riffs, such as “Smoke On The Water,” he has not performed with the group since leaving in 1993.
Blackmore formed the neo-classical group RAINBOW while he was not with PURPLE. The band combined parts of hard rock with baroque music, eventually evolving into melodic pop-style hard rock.
