This year, the maestros made two cds for our friends and family. It was a lot of work - ripping our christmas cds, aligning the cd and jewel case papers to the printer, figuring out the printing software, selecting the graphics and layout, getting the id3 info into the cds - but it was more fun than anything.
Canadian Christmas
Our choices for the Canadian performers doing Christmas caroles are:
Jennifer Ryan - Little Drummer Boy
Bruce Cockburn - Go Tell It On The Mountain
Diana Krall - Jingle Bells
Barenaked Ladies - Elf's Lament (with Michael Bulbe)
John Gilliat - O Christmas Tree
Jann Arden - Make It Christmas Day
Liona Boyd - Yuletide Garland
Jennifer Ryan - I'll Be Home for Christmas
Ron Sexsmith - Maybe this Christmas
The Be Good Tanyas - Rudy
The Chieftans w/Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Ca Berger - Il Est Ne
Midiaeval Babes - Gaudete
Barenaked Ladies - Sleigh Ride
Jennifer Ryan - White Christmas
Bruce Cockburn - Mary Had A Baby
John Gilliat - Good King Wenceslas
Holly Cole - Baby It's Cold Outside
Natalie MacMaster feat. Alison Krauss - Get Me Through December
Liona Boyd - Spanish Carol
Ray Brown Trio - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (w Diana Krall)
Holly Cole - Please Come Home For Christmas
Barenaked Ladies - Deck The Stills
Bruce Cockburn - Joy To The World
Sarah McLachlan - Song For A Winter's Night
Quartette - All Through the Night
Chillout
The quasi-annual chillout/Nu-Jazz/Ambient/Lo-Fi/Electronica mix came in 2 flavours. One flavour, listed here, is the start up-tempo and then finish slower. Another flavour mixes things up in cycles. The progressive chillout playlist is:
dZihan & Kamien - Stiff Jazz
Nuspirit Helsinki - Trying
Infracom Presents [REJazz] - Quiet Night
Briskey - Conchita's Cabine
Stigmato Inc - Reality Check
Thunderball - Vai Vai
Emanuel Santarromana - Metropolitain
Stephan Graf Hadik WildnerTosca - Rolf Royce
3-11 Porter - Surround Me With Your Love [Mental Overdrive Remix]
Air - La Femme d'Argent
Air - All I Need
Mono - Life in Mono
Zero 7 - Destiny
Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line
Zero 7 - Distractions
