Los Angeles, California: Ride The Rainbow - The Ultimate Tribute To Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow is already with us. But that did not stop Candice Night and Marcus Nand from shooting a video for what has already become one of the most critically acclaimed tracks on the album, as well as the most delicate.
Long time followers of Ritchie’s post-Rainbow Blackmore’s Night will already know that Candice is no stranger to the Rainbow catalog - “Man On The Silver Mountain, “ Difficult To Cure” and “Temple Of The King” have all found a place in Blackmore’s Night’s live show over the years. And no matter who voiced Rainbow’s original, still Night made the song her own.
She’s done it again on Ride The Rainbow. “I Surrender” was first heard on Difficult To Cure, Rainbow’s fifth album (from 1981) and their first to feature vocalist Joe Lynn Turner - who also appears on Ride The Rainbow, alongside both his predecessor in the band, Graham Bonnet, and his successor, Doogie White.
Night and co-conspirator Nand, however, have a very different vision of Rainbow to those others.
Night’s vocals, as mystic and magnificent as they ever are with Blackmore’s Night, offer the song an entire new lease of life - even those among of us who can sing along with every Rainbow song have probably never truly acknowledged the depths of emotion and tenderness that hallmark “I Surrender.”
Seemingly effortlessly, however, Night and Nand bring them sparkling into full view, and the video - which is launched today - only amplifies those qualities.
“It's always fun shooting videos for a song you love and a project you believe in,” says Candice. “Reinterpreting such a classic song takes some imagination, so with the acoustic guitar of Marcus Nand and the softer approach, it lends perfectly to nature elements.
“Surrounding myself with sun, sand, water and forest elements brings the visuals to the magical elements of the new interpretation for a perfect meeting of audio and visual elements.”
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