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Kirk chose the song Karen Carpenter made famous, Merry Christmas, Darling, so we feature his sweet and precise, high trombone floating over us all. The piccolo trumpet can sound like a clarinet, and is used as such in two different contexts. Clarinet is an essential element in traditional jazz, so I bring the stand-in to the mix in the old New Orleans break-out section of the mostly new New Orleans Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and since klezmer music would be incomplete without a wailing clarinet, the pseudo version is featured in our Hanukkah tribute. Sevivon is a dreidl song, which is why this arrangement quotes You're the Top. Michael Moon Bear joins us on a few tracks, including soloing on God Rest Ye Merry and providing the frame drum heartbeat, from a traditional Middle Eastern rhythm, for Lo, How a Rose, transforming the old hymn into a mesmerizing arch. yes, that's supposed to be there, because that's how we did it that time and it's exactly right. To accelerate the process, many of these requests were combined and mashed into We Need a Little Christmas + 53.Ĭlarion gets many requests each year to, ah, mess with more holiday music, and there is plenty of great material that we have yet to Clarionize.
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Maybe not all at once the first time through, but with a couple of listenings, they will make themselves known. If you want the crash course, check out our video on YouTube, which gives the titles to this ultimate Christmas medley as they go by. Finally, Kum Ba Yah is not holiday music per se, but has become our perennial encore because it really fits the spirit of the season. I am grateful for the musicians whose talents have brought my sonic dreams to life. It takes people of substantial talent and commitment to get the music out of my head into the ether. Extreme thanks as well to David Sams, photographer and graphic artist, and Carol Dorsett who doesn't get named often enough because the job description goes on forever. Friday 6th November sees global popstar Sam Smith release “In The Lonely Hour: The Drowning Shadows Edition” – the extended version of his chart topping album, on 180g double LP.