专辑简介

Guitar, banjo, haunting keyboards, harmonica, Native American flute. Ghosts of Christmas past come to life in this album of new songs themed around Christmas, plus some old treasures reworked. Gordon Thompson's lyrics encompass hillbilly science-fiction, refugee issues, Native American spirituality, and Thomas Merton's first Christmas in the monastery. Old works rediscovered include new musical settings of The Huron Carol - Canada's 'first' carol - and a version of Thomas Hardy's poem 'The Oxen'. This album is a meditative resource for a lonely Christmas Eve, or a source of tunes for the next time you go carolling.