Winter (Basse Dance)

Ritchie: A Basse Dance was a very slow dance in the old days. I kinda based it around how I would look at the people dancing around back in the 15^th and 16^th centuries. I called the instrumental different before we called it Winter. It had a few other titles. When I play instrumentals they are based on a dance rhythm. I can imagine people dancing to it. It has a very simple, quite catchy melody. When you name an instrumental you have to think about how it feels. This one was very melancholic so I had to think about … winter. I think a lot of people are very melancholic during the winter. Because it’s so cold and they cannot go out. They get depressed. So it’s about depression.

Candice: The next instrumental should be called “Prozac”…

Ding Dong Merrily On High

Ritchie: That was the very first carol that we did as a band. Funny enough… Tell us about more about it…

Candice: On Ding Dong Merrily On High we actually are able to feature our two fabulous harmony vocalists. The twins. The Sisters of the Moon. That’s where you start hearing these big voices come in over the top. They have operetta-type trained voices so my voice hits the cailing what it can do they take it over and bring it to a higher level. It’s an interesting combination between my voice which is much lower and the harmonies. I think in the song we start slow and then in the end it’s a wall of sound where their voices were able to help us out.

Ritchie: It’s kind of a more operatic carol really.

Ma-O-Tzur

Ritchie: It’s a melody that Candice used to sing around the house which I thought was a very nice melody. It’s a Jewish melody and we wanted to include all of the religions. Not just to be a Christian-Catholic thing. We wanted to keep the Jewish people involved as well. That’s why she knows how to sing it in Hebrew as well.

Candice: It’s an old Hebrew melody. So the first part of the lyrics is in Hebrew. But as with all of these songs… We didn’t want to separate them. Whether they were Jewish or Christian or Catholic lyrics. We really believe that music should be able to be listened to by everyone. And everyone should be able to enjoy it equally. When you have specific lyrics you tend to leave people out and almost create a war. The people then maybe don’t enjoy it that much because it’s something they don’t believe in. So we used a lot of lyrics on the record no matter from what religion so the people can listen to them and enjoy the music as a whole. We really didn’t want to leave anyone “out in the cold”. We still tried to keep the holiday feeling that we were already talking about. The feeling of joy, peace and of healing. Hopefully everyone can enjoy the lyrics equally.

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