Scarlet Moon Introduces Two New Christmas Albums
Scarlet Moon Records, producers of many, many video game cover albums, are releasing their take on the holiday season. It’s nothing new — this is actually the SEVENTH Scarlet Moon Christmas album in as many years. What is new is that it’s accompanied by a second album.
Unlike most of their albums, Scarlet Moon Christmas has little to do with video games — there’s just not much to cover outside of Christmas NiGHTS and that one snow area in Banjo-Kazooie. Instead the albums cover traditional Christmas songs, BUT they’re composed by artists who have worked for Scarlet Moon on other projects. For what it’s worth, someone mixed in melodies from a Kirby game in one of these tracks.
- Snowing (“Let it Snow” Fusion Arrange) by Jamphibious
- Galician Carol by Osamu Kubota
- Silver & Gold & Grapes & Gardens (“Grape Gardens” from Kirby Adventure) by Mustin
- Away in a Manger by Vince DiCola
- Daisy Bell by mojera
What’s the second offering, you ask? SM’s series Prescription For Sleep is getting in on the holiday spirit with their own seasonally timed album, Prescription for Sleep: Christmas Volume 1. Will there be more? Depends on the response to this one. But it’s got GENTLE LOVE (Metal Gear Solid composer Norihiko Hibino on saxophone, PersonaQ/Etrian Odyssey performer AYAKI on piano and maiko on violin, performing these classics:
- Joy to the World
- Angels we Have Heard on High
- Silent Night
- O Holy Night
- The First Noel
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- O Christmas Tree
- What Child is This?
- We Three Kings
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
Both Scarlet Moon Christmas VII and Prescription for Sleep: Christmas Volume 1 are available now through the links in this sentence. In addition, Scarlet Moon’s entire catalog including these two albums will be given a 25% discount Thanksgiving day through the end of Christmas Day using the promotional code “HOLIDAY2022” on Bandcamp:
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