O Holy Night

A few Year-end Wrap-up posts, here's the first:

Back on December 1st, Absolutely Kosher premiered its first annual holiday special, in tribute to those holiday tv specials of old, featuring new videos of Christmas songs by most of the current awesome roster - Edinburgh School for the Deaf, New Bad Things, Nonconnah, Okay, Saiko Ryusui (of Brabrabra), and Spaceheads...and me, (car colors).

I covered O Holy Night (as did Okay, wonderfully), a newly mixed version of the song that I'd done a few years ago for Al Crisafulli's then radio show, Signal to Noise, on WFDU. It's the way I used to do it live, connecting to the Outro guitars of one of the songs of this next album, then changing a note (C to C#) to modulate to D, put in a loop, drop down an octave and voila..song's iffy backbone.

The video though is all-new and took me about a week, believe it or not, culling footage from hard drives, figuring out the video editing app (Davinci Resolve), getting an edit together that felt right with the music. It's really a home movie - mostly kids, stuff from my life, the dog appears briefly - but probably the best one I'll ever make and I'm actually disproportionately proud of it (ha).

You can see that here.

And the whole AbKosh holiday special - highly recommended - is here.

One last note, the holiday videos will only be up through December, then carefully wrapped in newspaper & placed lovingly into the same cardboard boxes we've had for years to spend the next eleven months in the attic...