Friday, December 10, 2010

A Holiday Whimsy - Dickinson's Christmas Carols

Like a tart and tasty bite of cranberry and sweet potato comes this holiday whimsy. It's a collage of carols and poetry, a mashup of twee indie pop and canonical verse. It won't make your teeth hurt, promise!



Portland indie pop chanteuse Grey Anne says:
"Dickinson's Christmas Carol" is not a typo. It's a combination of two great things: traditional Christmas songs, and Emily Dickinson poems.

You may notice these recordings are imperfect. They're no-dubs two-channel home recordings, because this is a lark and maybe no one cares. But if people really like it, enhanced versions may be made available later.

A big tip of the pint to Grey Anne!

(And what should that pint be, you ask? Well, not exactly a pint. Nor a barleywine, winter warmer, or other holiday beer. Entirely too massive and rich. This needs something lighter in texture, but structured and with deceptive power...a Belgian tripel!)

2 comments:

  1. Aw, thanks for the shoutout, Capital Taps!

    If you like the tracks, please share them with your favorite English-teacher type. They're $1 each or 6 for $5.

    Today is Miss Dickinson's 180th birthday. In her poems, she fixates on ghosts--so who knows? She may still be around ;)

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  2. Ha! Over at Poetry and Popular Culture, there's an interview with the curator of a show in Boston, "The Public Life of Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, and Their Contemporaries."

    The Dickinson part "focuses mainly on the marketing of Dickinson immediately after her death."

    The magic of the internets forges a new chapter in that marketing a little over a century later.

    Thanks for stopping by!

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