NEW Christmas music

[Lynx]

Can anybody recommend any Christmas music that is not the same old songs we hear every year?

I'm already going to have a holly jolly Christmas, we don't have a real tree to rock around, I'm not going anywhere that I will be home for Christmas from, and last year uncle Brent shot Rudolph and we had Rudolph chili. Next?

Here's something like what I'm looking for:

(It picks up at about 0:46.)

 

[Lynx]

Or something like this:

 

[Lynx]

Something with, as seoulsearch would call it, a little twang:

 

[Lynx]

Something a bit smaller:

So yeah, can anybody recommend ANY Christmas music that is not the same old thing retreaded? I'll take anything from bluegrass to rap to metal to country to... whatever. I'm just looking for something, ANYTHING that has not already been played in department stores 7,000 times this year alone.

 

[Magenta]

Hi Lynx Have you heard this Christmas story song from a secular view?

It has been around for a while, from since before I was Christian,
actually I have always liked it. I hope you do too

 

[Magenta]

This instrumental LP is not specifically Christmas, but is very "seasonal" and wonderful to listen to

 

[Magenta]

Loreen McKennitt has a Christmas CD you may not have heard.
She is home grown Canadian talent, Celtic flavored The full
CD is not available as one unit, so I have included the playlist

"In Praise of Christmas" (traditional) – 6:06
"The Seasons" (traditional) – 4:55
"The King" (traditional) – 2:04
"Banquet Hall" (McKennitt) – 3:53
"Snow" (Archibald Lampman, McKennitt) – 5:35
"Balulalow" (traditional) – 3:09
"Let Us the Infant Greet" (traditional) – 3:46
"The Wexford Carol" (traditional) – 6:07
"The Stockford Carol" (McKennitt) – 3:02
"Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined" (traditional) – 6:52

^ ^ Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined ^ ^

 

[Magenta]

This is not Christmas music per se, but playing it at Christmas time? Awesome!

Hildegard was German, tithed to the church as a child (she was her parent's tenth child)…
but she wrote in Latin, and her songs/compositions are sung in Latin. Many medieval
musicologists reproduce her lyrics as rather monotonal chants with perhaps a single
instrument droning in the background. Richard Souther completely revisions her work
with stunning effect. In fact, more surviving chants by Hildegard exist than by any other
composer from the entire middle ages. By all accounts, Hildegard was an amazing woman

 

[Girlofbanjo]

As far as bluegrass goes, The Lindsey Family has a great bluegrass Christmas album. You can find it on YouTube. Hallelujah Cloverton's version (also on YT) is amazing!

 

[Magenta]

As far as bluegrass goes, The Lindsey Family has a great bluegrass Christmas album. You can find it on YouTube. Hallelujah Cloverton's version (also on YT) is amazing!

 

[Girlofbanjo]

Thank you so much! ❤❤❤ nice to meet you on here. 😁

 

[Magenta]

Thank you so much! ❤❤❤ nice to meet you on here. 😁

 

[Magenta]

This is a 4th century Latin Advent hymn by Ambrose of Milan, from the CD: "State
of Grace." Veni Redemptor Gentium means,"Come Redeemer of the Earth" (or nations).

Revisioned by Paul Schwartz, with Gavyn Wright on violin, David Theodore
on oboe, Lisbeth Scott performing vocals, and Paul Schwartz on piano.

 

[Magenta]

More Latin via Pilgrimage: 9 Songs of Ecstasy, a musical interpretation of the travels
of the medieval pilgrims who roamed northwestern Spain in the 13th century.

Composed/arranged/produced by Simon Cloquet and
Eric Calvi, with Catherine Bott performing the vocals.