The Record Crates United Mixtape 80

We’re celebrating the winter solstice today with this week’s episode. Greet the oncoming chill with this mix of wassailing tunes, icy ambient tracks and holiday songs from the likes of Martin Carthy, The Howard Hughes Suite and Joseph Decosimo. Check it out:

1. O Holy Night – Seawind of Battery & Andy Steele – This Ain’t Your Mama and Papa’s Holiday Music: A Compilation of Holiday Favorites for the Weirdo in Your Life
2. Rain and Snow (Live on Granada TV, 1972) – Pentangle – The Time Has Come
3. Cold Haily Windy Night – Martin Carthy – Landfall
4. Snow Queen – The Keithe Lowrie Duet – Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 8: The Private Press
5. Gower Wassail – Steeleye Span – Ten Man Mop or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again
6. Maa On Niin Kaunis – Heikki Ruokangas and Simo Laihonen – Joulupuu on rakennettu: Finnish Christmas Songs
7. Winter Passes (Demo) – Mighty Baby – Day of the Soup
8. Love in Ice Crystals – The Sallyangie – Children of The Sun
9. Silent Carol – The Iditarod – Yuletide
10. Buna – TENGGER – Earthing
11. Sanctuary Stone – Midwinter – The Waters of Sweet Sorrow
12. Carol of The Bells – Wall Matthews – The Heart of Winter: Christmas Guitar 
13. Clear Fork – Joseph Decosimo – While You Were Slumbering
14. Strange Quite – Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks 
15. Driedel Song – Rootless – This Ain’t Your Mama and Papa’s Holiday Music: A Compilation of    Holiday Favorites for the Weirdo in Your Life
16. Down in Yon Forest – Shirley and Dolly Collins – The Sweet Primeroses
17. Pine – SUSS – s/t
18. Mari Lwyd – Calan – Nadolig yng Nghymru – Christmas in Wales
19. Bring Us in Good Ale – Tim Hart & Maddy Prior – Summer Solstice
20. The Cherry Tree Carol – Sharron Kraus & Harriet Earis – Winter Songs
21. The Road Is Inside The Woods – Holland Patent Public Library – Songs to Fall Asleep At the Wheel To
22. Here We Come a-Wassailing – The Watersons – Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs
23. From Above – Hiram – Air Songs
24. The Snow It Melts The Soonest – Anne Briggs – s/t
25. The Old Triangle (Live on the Freak Zone, BBC 6 Music, 2008) – Bert Jansch – Bert at The BBC
26. Silent Night – The Howard Hughes Suite – This Ain’t Your Mama and Papa’s Holiday Music: A Compilation of Holiday Favorites for the Weirdo in Your Life

-KH