Gifts of Odin/ Various - Gifts of OdinThis 31st collection of Christmas Revels music derives from the uniquely robust traditions of the Nordic nations of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, where the winter solstice is marked with folkloric festivity and gorgeously haunting music. Listeners beware: all is not what it seems in wintry lands where the darkness is magical, mischievous 'julenisser!' Sung in six different languages by these incomparable soloists and choruses and

while being fairly new the band embraces the sound created by it's forefathers

the Abbey organ is played - from the daily sung services to those spectacular outgoing voluntaries we have all heard at so many national and royal events

released on his Stompertime label in 1959 within a year of his rejected Sun version

We recorded this album at Studio Kultivator in Bandhagen Stockholm run by engineer Jonas Olofsson

composer and tenor saxophonist Tom Tallitsch presents the first recording of his quintet - a forward looking yet mainstream grouping of some of Philly's finest musicians

Walter also deals with composition and conducting

Sean Kelly (guitar)

unexpected catastrophic developments test the crew far beyond anything they expected

Featured tracks include Marcy Lees "Can't Hold Back"

great Stephen Paulus

supple filmmaking and sublime

If Triodion represents his music at it's starkest and most unadorned