Eban Schletter's Cosmic Christmas

Schletter, Eban
Oglio Records
Novelty | Nov 2009

Reviews

Don Farrell
Reviewed 2010-04-05
Yuletide odyssey by a drifting military satellite which encounters
mysterious signals that forces it to question it's mission.
****1: 0:40 t minus 15 seconds and counting, cool countdown sequence to lift off or whatever.
****2: 3:46 little kids talk, see Linus & Lucy ice skating, great theremin cover of a Vince Guaraldi classic from "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
****3: 4:58 Great theremin cover of "We Three Kings"
4: 0:24 space baby talk
5: 1:45 snippet of "We Three Kings" then computer generated speech
6: 4:40 layered voices about protecting the "super small"
7: 0:22 space baby talk
****8: 3:46 theremin cover of "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
9: 0:27 space baby talk/vocal
10: 2:07 synthesizer cover of "Carol Of The Bells"
11: 2:05 satellite computer thinking/talking
****12: 5:08 theremin & vibes cover of "Silent Night"
13: 3:04 satellite computer thinking/talking on world religions
****14: 2:12 theremin & vibes cover of "Auld Lang Syne"
***15: 5:51 vocal by Grant-Lee Phillips "What Will Become Of Christmas?" nice theremin at end
***16: 4:21 layered voices singing what Christmas should be.
D  Farrell 04/2010

Recent airplay

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Charting

2010-04-04 — 2010-06-06
Week EndingAirplays
May 9 2

Track listing

1. Countdown
2. Send Christmas Into The Universe, Feat. Crissy Guerrero And Tracy Denisi
3. Christmas Time Is Here
4. We Three Kings
5. Space Baby One
6. Computers - Part 1
7. Super Small
8. Space Baby Two
9. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
10. Who Is The Man With All The Toys?
11. Carol Of The Bells
12. Computers - Part 2
13. What Will Become Of Christmas? Feat. Grant-Lee Phillips
14. Silent Night
15. Computers - Part 3
16. Auld Lang Syne