This morning, we celebrated the shortest day and the longest night with some winter music of all kinds, including traditional carols, folk and experimental music about wintry topics, blizzardy black metal, and music that just sonically evokes winter. In the first hour we had some quieter, gentler sounds, but hour two had some heavier stuff. Thanks for listening and happy solstice!
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My background music while talking in this episode was “Ice Dance” by Danny Elfman.
You can listen to an archived recording of the show here: https://wrir.org/.../monday-breakfast-blend-with-emily.../
The Roches, “Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light”
from We Three Kings
Geffen* - 1990
Enya, “O Come O Come Emmanuel”
from And Winter Came...
Warner Bros. - 2008
Church Bells, Street piano & Musical Boxes, “Bells & Hark the Herald”
from Christmas Music Through the Ages
Saydisc - 2015
Sting, “Gabriel's Message”
from A Very Special Christmas Vol. 1
A&M Records - 1987
Dartington Hall Handbells and Choir, “Down in Yon Forest”
from Christmas Music Through the Ages
Saydisc - 2015
Mark Mothersbaugh, “Snowflake Music”
from Rushmore (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Island Records - 2015
Vashti Bunyan, “Winter Is Blue”
from Just Another Diamond Day
Philips Records - 1970
Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence”
from 1996
KAB America - 1996
John Zorn, “Santa's Workshop”
from A Dreamers Christmas
Tzadik - 2011
Mariee Sioux, “Wizard Flurry Home”
from Faces in the Rocks
Grass Roots - 2007
Wendy Carlos, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
from By Request (Reissue)
Columbia Masterworks - 2003
Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band & Sneak's Noyse, “The Holly and the Ivy”
from English Folk Carols
Regis Records - 2011
Julian Koster, “O' Little Town of Bethlehem”
from The Singing Saw At Christmastime
Merge Records - 2008
The Lyttle Folk, “A'Soalin'”
from Classroom Projects
Trunk Records - 2013
Papa M, “Roses In the Snow”
from Whatever, Mortal
Drag City Records - 2001
Meredith Monk, “Winter Variation”
from Songs Of Ascension
ECM New Series - 2011
Lindsey Horner/Susan McKeown, “Green Growth the Holly”
from Through The Bitter Frost
Fifty Fifty Music - 2005
Tim Hecker, “Whitecaps of White Noise II”
from Harmony in Ultraviolet
Kranky - 2006
Shirley Collins, “The Moon Shines Bright (feat. Dolly Collins)”
from An Introduction to Shirley Collins
Topic Records - 2017
Harry Nilsson, “Snow”
from Sessions 1967-1975 - Rarities from the RCA Albums Collection
RCA/Legacy - 2017
Phil Kline, “Unsilent Night”
from Unsilent Night
Cantaloupe Music - 2001
Sonne Hagal, “Midwinternight”
from :Helfahrt:
Tesco Distribution Germany - 2011
Adrasteia, “Passage I - III - Decay”
from Demo II
Self-Released - 2020
Wendy Carlos, “Rocky Mountains”
from The Shining (Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Single
Warner Bros. - 1980
Immortal, “Cryptic Winterstorms”
from Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
Osmose Productions - 1992
Tor Lundvall, “Busy Station”
from Yule
Dais Records - 2006
Bathory, “Winterblot”
from Nordland I
Black Mark Production - 2002
Sargeist, “The Moon Growing Colder”
from The Rebirth of a Cursed Existence
W.T.C.Productions - 2013
Celtic Frost, “Winter (Requiem, Chapter Three: Finale)”
from Monotheist
2005 - 2006
Satyricon, “Mother North”
from Nemesis Divina (Remastered)
Century Media - 2016
Girlschool, “Auld Lang Syne”
from We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year
Mercury Studios - 2011