Joni Mitchell's River sounds exquisite in any incarnation, as does the Pretenders' warm and fuzzy 2,000 Miles. Love or hate this time of year, it's still hard to imagine the kind of person who actively gravitates towards music of mild depression and regret, but albums like this always prove hugely popular.
It wasn’t the sort of email that two classically trained musicians from a small.
There was a particular song they’d done that would perfectly suit the trailer of a forthcoming movie, it said. It purported to be from Hollywood, an inquiry about their music. This show was outstanding the heavenly voices of the Scala girls literally gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes. This selection of cool, ambivalent seasonal tunes was made after conductor and pianist Stijn and Steven Kolacny crowdsourced ideas on Facebook: fans suggested Coldplay's Christmas Lights ("waiting for the snow to fall, doesn't really feel like Christmas at all"), Pearl Jam's Let Me Sleep, and the Downton Abbey theme-song Did I Make the Most of Loving You. Scala & Kolacny Brothers at Peterskirche, Leipzig, Germany Reptile Engel Creep With or Without You Gabi und Klaus Hungriges Herz Emanuela Pocahontas. When the email arrived last May, the Kolacny brothers thought it was some kind of joke.
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R ock choir Scala have a knack for choosing songs that sound weird coming from three dozen angelic-looking Belgian girls – such as Divynils' I Touch Myself, or Radiohead's Creep, which entranced festival crowds in 2011 and featured in the movie The Social Network.