01. Sister - Sleigh Ride
02. Mike O'Neill - Snow Flakes (What Child Is This?)
03. Dale Morningstar - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
04. Nichol Robertson - Jingle Bells
05. Great Aunt Ida - Jingle Bell Rock
06. Nick Zubeck and Rich Burnett - Silver Bells
07. Egger - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
08. The Golden Seals - Frosty the Snowman
09. The Super Friendz - Scrooge
10. Ramblin' Ambassadors - Blue Christmas
11. Dog is Blue - We Wish You a Merry Christmas
12. Ben Gunning - White Christmas
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02. Mike O'Neill - Snow Flakes (What Child Is This?)
03. Dale Morningstar - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
04. Nichol Robertson - Jingle Bells
05. Great Aunt Ida - Jingle Bell Rock
06. Nick Zubeck and Rich Burnett - Silver Bells
07. Egger - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
08. The Golden Seals - Frosty the Snowman
09. The Super Friendz - Scrooge
10. Ramblin' Ambassadors - Blue Christmas
11. Dog is Blue - We Wish You a Merry Christmas
12. Ben Gunning - White Christmas
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Every year, the folks at Zunior, Canada's "Little Digital Music Store", pick a Christmas album theme and then ask the finest Indie artists in the Great White North to contribute something that the theme inspires them to create. For this year's theme, Zunior decided to find inspiration from the 1965 classic "Ventures Christmas Album". Does that mean that this year's "A Zunior Ventures Christmas" is nothing but a bunch of regurgitated surf rock? Au contraire, mon frere. And you'd likely know that, if you'd checked out past editions of Zunior's annual Christmas set.
The artists, here, may have found their initial muse from the Ventures tracks they were assigned, but they've taken the music in numerous and varied directions. True enough, Sister opens the album with a fairly faithful Indie surf rock cover of "Sleigh Ride", following the Ventures arrangement fairly closely while giving the track a bit more edge. But, thereafter, the artists bring the old Ventures tunes into the 21st Century. You'll certainly hear echoes of the original versions, but these new takes are altogether fresh and unique. Dale Morningstar gives a folk rock meets punk meets Wild Man Fischer reading to "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"--with vocals (of a sort); hard to find the Ventures anywhere in that one. Egger merges "Rudloph" with Cream, instead of the Beatles, emerging with a garage blues rock that's certainly a lot more raw than what the Ventures did. "Blue Christmas" gets a bass and reverb heavy Little Steven's Garage type makeover. The Super Friendz make "Scrooge" entirely their own, adding far more character and depth to their Indie/Horror rock instrumental version. And Ben Gunning turns "White Christmas" into a noisy, chaotic, completely post-apocalyptic meeting of polka band, 8-bit, psych rock and, God, I don't even know what that is. But it's delightfully different, whatever the hell it is. Even when the groups stick to a surf rock framework, the tunes are stripped down and rough and...thoroughly Indie.
We, at Stubbys, like different. And Zunior's Christmas collections are the essence of different. They're also relatively inexpensive (this one's $8.88) and all the money raised (100%) is donated The Daily Bread Foodbank. So check the song samples, buy the digital album, and check out the previous Zunior Christmas collections. They're all awesome, every one, and you won't find them anywhere but Zunior. Available in MP3 and lossless FLAC.
The artists, here, may have found their initial muse from the Ventures tracks they were assigned, but they've taken the music in numerous and varied directions. True enough, Sister opens the album with a fairly faithful Indie surf rock cover of "Sleigh Ride", following the Ventures arrangement fairly closely while giving the track a bit more edge. But, thereafter, the artists bring the old Ventures tunes into the 21st Century. You'll certainly hear echoes of the original versions, but these new takes are altogether fresh and unique. Dale Morningstar gives a folk rock meets punk meets Wild Man Fischer reading to "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"--with vocals (of a sort); hard to find the Ventures anywhere in that one. Egger merges "Rudloph" with Cream, instead of the Beatles, emerging with a garage blues rock that's certainly a lot more raw than what the Ventures did. "Blue Christmas" gets a bass and reverb heavy Little Steven's Garage type makeover. The Super Friendz make "Scrooge" entirely their own, adding far more character and depth to their Indie/Horror rock instrumental version. And Ben Gunning turns "White Christmas" into a noisy, chaotic, completely post-apocalyptic meeting of polka band, 8-bit, psych rock and, God, I don't even know what that is. But it's delightfully different, whatever the hell it is. Even when the groups stick to a surf rock framework, the tunes are stripped down and rough and...thoroughly Indie.
We, at Stubbys, like different. And Zunior's Christmas collections are the essence of different. They're also relatively inexpensive (this one's $8.88) and all the money raised (100%) is donated The Daily Bread Foodbank. So check the song samples, buy the digital album, and check out the previous Zunior Christmas collections. They're all awesome, every one, and you won't find them anywhere but Zunior. Available in MP3 and lossless FLAC.
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