As the nights draw in and the temperatures drop, Oh! Canada has been looking back over 2010. We hope that through this years interviews, mixes and reviews we have introduced you to some of best new music Canada has to offer, and that we have helped you to discover some new favourites. We will be looking back on 2010 and looking forward to 2011 with a handful of Canadian artists and writers in the next few weeks, but in the meantime, to get you in the festive spirit we are proud to present Ho Ho Ho Canada Deux!
A follow up to last years Ho Ho Ho Canada, Ho Ho Canada Deux hopes to provide an antidote to hearing the same old Christmas tunes year after year.
The compilation includes new compositions, covers, traditional songs (including one in Norwegian), the occasional curse word (you have been warned), and sleigh bells and festive cheer aplenty. We’d like to thank all of the artists involved for their time and effort in putting this together-please be sure to click on their names to find out more about them and find out what they are up to in the next few months. The artwork was created by Jon Janes using an image of Clear Creek, Yukon by Michael Edwards.
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1. By Divine Right: ‘Mall Santa’*
2. Paper Lions: ‘Jingle Bells’
3. The Mountains and The Trees: ‘My Favourite Sweater (Happy Holidays)’ *
4. Great Lake Swimmers: ‘Gonna Make It Through The Year’
5. Ox: ‘Xmas In the Jailhouse’
6. Baby Eagle: ‘Fearfully and Wonderfully’ *
7. Boxer The Horse: ‘Material Xmas’
8. Sean Nicholas Savage: ‘Snowflake’
9. The Russian Futurists: ’100 Shopping Days Till Christmas’
10. Kashka (Kat Burns of Forest City Lovers): ‘Picture Books In Winter’ *
11. Hooded Fang: ‘Tundra Nights’ *
12. Teen Daze: ‘Medley In D (Holy Holy Holy/ Christmas at Sea/ Goodnight, Sleep Tight)’ *
*= recorded specially for Ho Ho Ho Canada Deux
All of these songs have been given free for your listening pleasure. We hope you enjoy them and have a fantastic festive season. At this time of year especially there are hundreds of good causes all seeking your help-we hope that, in keeping with the spirit of giving, if you enjoy this compilation you might consider giving a donation to one of them. Thank-you.
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awesome work, thank you!
Downloading because Kate Beaton said so. I bet it’s lovely!
Links seem to be down due to too much traffic. This must be good!
just uploading the compilation on to a new server…. new links will be live very soon, hold tight
Still not working, unfortunately. Dropbox is giving this message.
“This account’s public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!”
It’s working now. Thanks!
Love it!
Here is my review: http://wp.me/pQmiL-2SL
It’s not letting me download the second disk for some reason. I’m enjoying the first, so far, though!
second disk keeps freezing at 3% for me
try clearing your cache / history and starting again. i’ve downloaded the second file to my machine here and unarchived and it works no problem…
Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada Deux: Part One: (Not So) Silent Night — the zip files are damaged! can you upload new ones?
both of the compilations are…
try downloading from the ‘alternate links’ that i’ve just supplied…. not sure what the problem is as both .zip archives are fine my end..
thank you so much! I hope it works!
thank you so much richard, it worked!
Kristoffer- Glad it worked for you in the end. Hope you enjoy it!
Oh! Did I break it for a while? I’m sorry! But it’s so good.
Its not working again…
The zip file for Disc 1 worked fine for me but both Disc 2 zip files seem to be damaged!
Hi guys. When you say it seems to be damaged what do you mean? Both seem to be working at this end.
If you’re looking for some vintage Canadian Christmas albums, check out:
http://hif-fi-holiday.blogspot.com/
These comps are fantastic!
Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Rude question: Were the musicians paid? If so, have a cookie. If not, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
The archives of both zip files seem to be broken now :(
“damaged” on my end as well :(
Managed with the alternate links, thanks :)
Came over here on Kate Beaton’s say-so. What a nice way to introduce yourselves to a new audience! Merry Christmas!