Legendary Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore shifted his focus in the late 1990s to concentrate on his love of Renaissance-era music. He and his fiancee, vocalist/lyricist Candice Night, combine elements of world music, Renaissance, new age, folk, and rock & roll on this debut album, originally released in 1998. Blackmore's acoustic guitar melodies and Night's clear, ethereal voice blend with mandolins, keyboards, pennywhistles, violins, tambourines, military drums, hurdy-gurdies - and on one track, Ian Anderson's flute.