We Three Kings (1:54)

Ryan says: For the third year in a row, I’ve released some holiday music.  This time, I’ve recorded a very upbeat rendition of “We Three Kings (of Orient Are).”  I used a few new toys in the production of this track:  An obscure 1980s guitar with some spicy humbucking pickups, a used BOSS overdrive pedal, a Little Big Muff Pi distortion pedal, and a personalized DeRamos Music pick by Clayton Custom Picks — 1.0 mm, white delrin, fantastic!  This stereo mix is quite different than last week’s mono mix (for the LibriVox Christmas Carol Collection).

Anyhow, this past year, I’ve also joined a band called Seven Minute Silence.  I’m their latest bass player, and I’m producing the next EP by the band.  It should be recorded, mixed, and mastered by the end of the winter season.  Combine that with hopefully some new Society of Gloves, Chord du Jour, solo work, etc., 2012 will hopefully a great time for DeRamos Music!

Here’s to averting the 2012 Apocalypse!

With less than three days until Christmas, Ryan DeRamos has released his version of the traditional holiday song “O Christmas Tree” (an English-language translation of “O Tannenbaum”).  A mono mix of the song will soon be found within LibriVox‘s 2010 Christmas Carol Collection.  Here is the song in glorious stereo:

O Christmas Tree (2:22)

Ryan says:  “Last year, I recorded an EP’s worth of Christmas songs for LibriVox.  I almost wasn’t going to record a holiday single this year, but a friend convinced me otherwise.  While deciding what song to perform, I wanted to have this A Night at the Opera vibe, and ‘O Christmas Tree’ was just a perfect fit.  I imagined that an alternate-universe Brian May could have arranged ‘O Tannenbaum’ instead of ‘God Save the Queen’ to close that particular Queen album.  In any case:  I chose, learned, re-arranged, and produced the song in the course of two days.  That’s an accomplishment in and of itself.”