The Holiday Season is in full swing!  (Have you finished gift shopping/making yet?)  This is the final Christmas-related track that Ryan DeRamos recorded last year for LibriVox. While the LibriVox version is in mono, this mix is in stereo:

The One Horse Open Sleigh (Jingle Bells) (4:41)

Ryan says: “I tried to give my version of ‘Jingle Bells’ some swagger.  You know, like Elvis meets Mick Jagger meets drunk person.  In the end, though, it could have used even more swagger.  I do love the loose-feeling rhythm, though.”

Ryan DeRamos composed and produced the underlying score and the majority of the soundtrack for the film Elan Vital (2009).  Here’s another track:

Künstlertod (3:34)

Ryan says:  “This purposely and mostly atonal mess happens at the same time as Strauss’ ‘Künstlerleben,’ a companion piece of sorts, with leben meaning life and tod meaning death, or at least that’s what various Internet translators have told me.  There are also fleeting references to ‘The Drone,’ ‘Robert,’ and ‘The Stranger‘ in this piece.”