Torero Band [Tijuana Christmas] Sound of Brass - Silent Night [HQ Audio] video free download


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Dance to your favourite Carols with the wonderful 'Sound of Brass' !

Oh the memories this provokes! Hope some others of you had to endure this in your childhood!

[Sleeve notes]

Christmas is the most joyful festival of the Christian year, when we celebrate at the same time the turning point of winter and the new hope that was brought to men with the birth of Jesus. Christmas is a time when we make up for the bleakness of the weather outside with the warmth of our spirits and it is no coincidence that the songs which have become particularly associated with Christmas should be carols, which have always been the most cheerful and often the most secular of Christian songs.

On this record you will find your favourite carols in an unfamiliar guise - we've called the album 'Tijuana Christmas', but you will hear the mariachi sound taking on a richer and more varied flavour as the Torero Band bring out the charms of our most beautiful carol tunes in imaginative brand new arrangements. 'The Holly & the Ivy' sets the pace with a bright, sparkling beat that even adds to the gaiety of one of our oldest and liveliest carols; 'Silent Night' a much more recent and a more devout carol, is given quite a contrasting treatment, slow and tender. 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing' sets off again at a brisk, bouncy pace - and if you feel like dancing, why not? It may come as a surprise to you that our oldest carols used to be dances and that the word itself described a form of circular dance.

In the preface to the Oxford Book of Carols you will find carols described as songs with a religious impulse that are simple, popular and modern. You'll never have heard them sounding more joyful, popular or modern than they do on this exciting and original LP. (Blase Machin)

Comments

10 years ago

Edmund Gwenn

My mum loved this LP back in the day. Is it on CD anywhere, so I could buy it for her for Christmas?

11 years ago

steve98

Thank you thank you, I have been searching for this album for many many years. My parents owned it on record and when my sister and I were young this WAS Christmas. I now have the pleasure of sharing it with my own Children, thanks to you. Merry Christmas. 

11 years ago

Michael Pelling

Available on iTunes

12 years ago

Kenkonti

This is now available as a download on Amazon for £7.49. Anyone who was brought up listening to this every xmas will tell you that xmas is not xmas without it. It's brilliant. I've waited for years for it to be available on cd, it never has been but the download works fine and you can put it onto a cd from your pc. The Torero Band sound as good as ever !

12 years ago

Maureen Stephens

Thanks for uploading this so other people can enjoy this lovely album. I bought it from new and played it non-stop each Christmas time. Since then, I taped it to CD but still have the album!!!

12 years ago

Ray Vos

With a grandfather, father and an uncle who all play the trumpet, this version with its amazing descant was a household favourite. Absolutely love it and I know the descant off by heart. Beautiful.

13 years ago

kevin williams

You took me back 40 years when i heard this again....Thank You....Do you know where i can download it from ?

15 years ago

afghanonstan

I'm listening to Lennon & McCartney Tijuana Style as I type. Classy record. Viva Torero!

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