Keith Emerson - The Christmas Album [Mp3 192 kbps] TNT Village
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Keith Emerson makes a Christmas album with an 1980s sound. Does not sounds like a happy Christmas to me. Keith Emerson does all instruments here and gets help from a children choir too. The rest is Keith Emerson playing keyboards over some pretty average melodies with this 1980s.
Traditional Christmas music - particularly the seasonal carols sung in abbeys across Europe and Britain - is some of the most beautiful and emotional written. Gabriel's Message, Hector Berlioz's The Shepherds Farewell, Boris Ord's Adam lay-ye Bounden, movements of evangelic salvation sometimes composed by men not particularly religious but who admired the music of the Church. Hymns created to warm the soul and lift the spirits during assuredly cold and difficult winters, and to generate worship if only in song. It is that tradition we hear on this album echoing up from not only Keith Emerson's childhood but from centuries of a magnificent ecclesiastic legacy in music. There are better Christmas records to be sure and Keith's fondness for modern recording techniques doesn't always do these interpretations justice, but for those of us who just can't seem to shake our affinity for this crown prince of Prog, this is a very cool release on a par if not better than his first, Honky.
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01. Troika
02. Variations on 'OLittleTownOfBethlehem'
03. We three kings
04. Snowman's land
05. Aria from Bach'sChristmasOratorio
06. I saw three ships
07. Glorietta
08. Petites litanies de Jesus
09. It came upon a midnight clear
10. Silent night |