True to my traditions I’ve collected some new Christmas songs this year also, which I’m going to present here today.

Our friends in Crying Day Care Choir have recorded a Christmas EP with four tracks, called “Christmas Day Care Choir”. What’s extra nice about this is that they are donating all income from the album to Musikhjälpen during this week, i.e. until December 15th. Musikhjälpen is a project run by the public TV and Radio in Sweden each year, collecting money for people in need. This year it’s about women’s rights to survive pregnancies. If you’d like to help the band to help, you can just click download in the player below.

YAST presented their album debut earlier this year and walks out of it with this fine Christmas song, “If Santa Ain’t Real”, accompanied by Alice Boman on backing vocals.

Magnus Bergman has worked hard with releasing singles this year, and it’s only logical that he would make a Christmas single as well. It’s called “Decembernatt” and is a remake of his own song, this time in a duet version together with Kim Vestin.

And it’s great that Brainpool make a comeback after almost ten years of silence, and they do that with this Christmas single “The Last Christmas”:

Tenonsaw, who released the album “Avenging Angels” during the Autumn, also wanted to contribute to the Christmas ambience. Of course they also want to experiment, and they do this by combining Mariah Careys “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and U2:s “All I Want Is You” into this song:

Next up is some lovely classical sounding Christmas jazz from Gunhild Carling, here with her new single “Winter’s Day”:

I’m finishing with celtic punk rockers Finnegan’s Hell, who serve us a Christmas song in the spirit of social realism, as they write, “Drunken Christmas (An Irish Christmas Song)”:

I hope you can find your Christmas spirit in this post; there are quite different versions to choose from here above. Merry Christmas to you, and thank you for coming here reading my posts and most of all for listening to the music.

I’ll continue with a peek at Magnus Bergman’s song releases from Summer. “Ölandsidyll” and “Långt Härifrån” are two of them with his earthy Swedish country rock vibing sound.

Magnus Bergman’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud

Magnus Bergman has continued during Spring with his ambition to release a new single each month. I think he sounds quite comfortable in his naked, earhty sound which fits like a glove with his voice. The latest song is something as interesting as a duet with Gösta Linderholm. Yes, that Gösta Linderholm who recorded “Rulla in en boll och låt den rulla” which I think every Swede, born in the seventies or earlier, know well. The single is called “Drömmarnas Allé” and is an interpretation in Swedish of the Faces/Rod Stewart song “Gasoline Alley”, which Gösta also recorded in 1983. There’s some bluesy vibes in this song where I’m fascinated by how close their voices sound and note that Gösta is still going strong. You’ll also find Magnus’ March single “Gryningstid” (“Daybreak”) here below.

Magnus Bergman’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud

In the Autumn Magnus Bergman launched the excellent album “Ljusspår”, which I wrote about then. As a follow-up he’s released the beautiful “Stjärnfall” (“Starfall”) in the beginning of this year, a song about a child’s wish for eternal life.

Magnus Bergmans hemsida – på Facebook – på Spotify

As usual I present some new Christmas songs. And why not the day before Christmas Eve in the middle of all Christmas preparations. Here are greetings from Magnus Bergman, Johan Hedberg and, an older favourite, Pär Edwardson‘s “Let Me In For Christmas”.
If you want more Chrismas songs you can always check out the ones from posts earlier years: 2008, 2009, 2010 och 2011.

Merry Christmas!

Let Me In For Christmas – Pär Edwardson