This year’s selection of Other Christmas Charols. As usual a random selection of inspiring and reflective tunes. I do not own the rights to any of these songs. Go and buy them. Last years‘ lists are archived here. The initial tracks (I edited many of them) are on Spotify. The complete playlist with the edited versions can be found below and on Soundcloud. Enjoy.

01 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Chilly Gonzales
0:00 – 0:37

02 | I’d Love to Change the World | Ten Years After
0:39 – 4:23

03 | Metti Una Sera A Cena (Ennio Morricone) | Edda Dell’Orso
5:37 – 7:57

04 | Perspective | Sy Smith
7:58 – 12:03

05 | Season’s Greetings | Thelma Houston
12:04 – 12:10

06 | Purcell / Arr. Pluhar: The Mock Marriage, Z. 605: No. 2, Twas Within a Furlong | Christina Pluhar
12:11 – 15:02

07 | Ahmad’s Blues (Album Version) | Marlena Shaw
15:03 – 18:08

08 | Song of the Wind | Santana
18:08 – 24:15

09 | Didn’t It Rain | Jake Blount
24:29 – 27:33

10 | Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy) | Duke Ellington
27:32 – 30:37

11 | This Christmas (Single Edit) | Donny Hathaway
30:37 – 33:20

12 | Flowering Jasmine | Gidon Kremer
33:24 – 39:56

13 | Ahlam | NES, Nesrine & Matthieu Saglio with David Gadea
39:55 – 44:31

14 | And When I Die | Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Billy Childs
44:31 – 50:40

15 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Bryan Sutton
50:41 – 53:31

16 | Le vent nous portera | Sophie Hunger
53:32 – 57:19

17 | In Re Don Giovanni (in memoriam Andreas Deppe) | Mike Nyman
57:20 – 59:59

18 | Peace Piece | John McLaughlin
1:00:00 – 1:01:46

Cover location: Jesuitenwiese (Vienna), September 4, 2022, 7.54pm   

Jesuitenwiese, KG Leopoldstadt, Leopoldstadt, Wien, 1020, Österreich