Christmas in London (Osckilo)

Keith Landry

Uploaded November 16, 2010 4:50pm.

Tharek sent me this beautifully played guitar arrangement and told me to have at it with the spirit of Christmas, so I wrote and recorded this little message of hope and peace. Somehow when I write music with and for fellow musicians across the pond, it all comes back to the ocean for me (see “Dreams of the Ocean” with Sister Savage)… There will likely be a future cleaner vocal version, but I like the song so much that I just needed to post it now. Thank you again, Tharek, for including me in this perfectly delicate song.

CHRISTMAS IN LONDON

Winter rolls in from the ocean
Quiet comes over the land
Candles burn a reminder of how to care for our fellow man

Night falling in London
The shortest day of the year
Candles burn a reminder
Silent night drawing near

I pray it snows this Christmas
A blanket of white on the land
Pure as the light of the child
Forgiving the sins of man

Winter rolls in from the ocean
Quiet comes over the land
Candles burn a reminder
Of how we should care for our fellow man

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thetworegs said December 22, 2023 6:25pm

Merry Christmas

Geir said January 31, 2011 1:12pm

Putting vocals to Thareks music is such a joy, and you've done a fabulous job here !! This is just superb !!

Farfetched Tangmo Band said January 13, 2011 5:40am

Yeah...now that's pretty. Well-recorded too.

Movement To Contact said January 10, 2011 2:43am

Don't know how I missed faving this one?!?!? I still love this track...just watched the video again the other day, amazing collab indeed.

Johnny Stone said November 26, 2010 4:23am

Nice one mate. Great guitar and vocals beautiful. Thanks for your comments mate.

Endicott Road said November 22, 2010 3:26am

Very nice, Keith. Loved it. ER

Movement To Contact said November 18, 2010 2:15pm

Glad you liked the track Keith. I finished it at right about 19 and 1/2 hours of solid recording. Coffee breaks in between. The mixing was not done very well but that landed on the 19th hour, and i was just about ready to pass out. Really i just wrote out a set of changes and 7 or 8 riffs and tried to pull them together to complete the song. I wanted it to feel like a song, not 24 minutes of the same stuff over and over.