f.m.i.m.v.5 song #1 = “deck the halls”

Every Monday I will be posting a little write-up about the song released that week from festive.mood.inducing.music.vol.5

This week, song #1 = “Deck the Halls”

I’ll be honest, this is not my favorite Christmas song ever. Actually, it’s probably near the bottom of the list.

However, for whatever reason, I really wanted to record this song.  (..It sure wasn’t the poll results, because this song came in dead-last. Sorry! Sometimes I just do what I want.)

I was shooting for a way to make the song less annoying. I wanted to make it more mellow, less joyful (yeah, i went there), and mess with the melody a bit.

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all about festive.mood.inducing.music

Over five years ago I decided last minute that I wanted to record some Christmas music and give it away for free on the web. This was a relatively novel concept at the time. So the last five days before Christmas, each day I released a simple acoustic recording of myself performing a Christmas tune.

And there started the tradition of releasing a new volume every year of the “festive.mood.inducing.music” Christmas music EP. Each year’s volume has gotten a little better than the year before (if I do say so myself…), with more involved arrangements and more production.

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