{"id":390,"date":"2007-12-24T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-05-01T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T19:09:43","slug":"holiday-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but most popular holiday music sets my teeth on edge; if I someday plow into a parked car because “Feliz Navidad” came on the radio and I was frantically trying to change the station, nobody who knows me would be particularly surprised.<\/p>\n

I ran across this site<\/a> the other day (I know nothing about the music, but am amused by their logo), and started thinking about holiday music that I do<\/EM> like.<\/p>\n

Gregorian chants are always nice (although I’m quite entertained that there’s a “Best of” monks album<\/a>), and carols in Latin<\/a> can sound meditative and atmospheric, but there are also some albums that are aimed at the darker psyche. Here are a few to get you started:<\/p>\n

Dark Noel Vol. 1<\/a> (Excelsis)
\nA Winter’s Song<\/a> (Excelsis)
\nWinter’s Knight<\/a> (Nox Arcana)
\nDark Noel<\/a> (Projekt)<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to put out some cookies<\/a> for Santa tonight. You’re on your own with the reindeer chow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but most popular holiday music sets my teeth on edge; if I someday plow into a parked car because “Feliz Navidad” came on the radio and I was frantically trying to change the station, nobody who knows me would be particularly surprised. I ran across this site the other day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}