And now, for something completely different...

[rowangolightly]

...and NON political!

I loves me some Christmas music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ujzd2STgfU&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_55111

In other news, Queen's Gambit WILL be producing a 6th and 7th CD. The 6th one will be stuff that we've started doing since Nikki and Becky joined us, including Nikki's beautiful original and featuring the 4-part harmonies that our friends seem to love so much, Hell, that WE love so much.

Recording on that will be starting soon, soon as Bruce gets over his bronchitis and feels better. The guitar tracks come first, of course, and then we hope to do a lot of recording the weekend of Boare's Heat Feast and the Firefly/Serenity Shindig since Nikki and Becky will be here.

But we're also going to be doing a Christmas/Yule CD; the three gals love the idea and kinda ambushed Bruce with it. It started with AmberBob and I getting wonderful hand-knitted socks made by tensegrity and then Nikki and Becky getting some too. We gals hatched up the idea that the album cover should be all of us with our socks on, which meant of course that Bruce needs some socks of his own. Dear Sam was so obliging as to agree to make him a pair (green, of course!) We'll be in Victorian holiday get up, of course, (new costumes, woohoo!) with our stockinged feet in the focus of the camera ....I think it'll be a blast! It won't be out by this Christmas, of course, with all that we have to do currently. But it will be by next Christmas!

[EDIT: What I forgot to mention is that we need TITLES for the new CDs...in keeping with our Chess theme, of course.

Let me list what we have so far:
1) Opening Move-Take Two (cause take 1 sucked but there are still some out there)
2) Pawn to King Four (the one we cut in the studio)
3) Off the Board (the bawdy one)
4) En Passant
5) Fianchetto

So, six needs to be a logical chess move in line with what's gone on so far. And then for the Christmas one...I have no clue.

And in the meantime, I'm going to get a "Straight No Chaser" Christmas album!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwqN2PJST8&NR=1

These guys re-define a capella!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKx_BTj_-IE&feature=user

And the QG schedule is updated on our web-site:

http://www.queens-gambit.com/schedule-2009.html

Comments

[txreisende.livejournal.com]

*sigh* While I don't miss the drama one tiny bit, I dearly miss the music from singing in caroling choirs, first as a singer in someone else's choir, then as a manager of my own. Let me know if you need a spare alto at any point...I utterly adore Christmas music, and know most of it cold.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

See, there doesn't have to be drama. Our stuff runs by a specific policy of "no drama, no politics, no bullshit, NO KIDDING" and my cast repeats that with me.

It makes a huge difference, it really does, when you stick by that and people know that you mean it.

Between all the members of QG, it'll be interesting to see what all arrangements of what all Christmas songs we all know. But I'm really thinking of some obscure ones that most people only know a bit and in original languages. We've got the definitive source for the German!

[txreisende.livejournal.com]

*grin* Unfortunately, by the time I got to anything like a position of authority, the drama was well entrenched. And in fairness, it was really quite minor by the standards of such things - by the time my partner and I were running things, the biggest problem was simply the management aspect of dealing with brilliant but flaky musicians - usually the sopranos and tenors - and those who THOUGHT they were brilliant and should therefore be flaky. *lol* But when it came time to perform, they all delivered, 100%, and I have absolutely no regrets about the work it all took.

I'd love to know what German carols you're referring to - my family has a fairly strong German-language background and some of my favorite carols (from an old, ancient tape sent to us by the parents of one of our foreign exchange students!)are German, but for many of them I know only the melody, not the names/authors, and have never been able to find sheet music arrangements.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

My resource for German carols is Bruce...