Our Review
A Yuletide Offering is a synthesized instrumental potpourri of traditional carols with an international flavor. Award-winning composer Jesse Ayers uses intensely creative arrangements to spice up numbers you have heard a million times before, but never quite like this. With only seven tracks spanning twenty minutes, the music ends much too quickly. My favorite moments include the deliciously mysterious bell-bonging Ukrainian Bell Carol and the percussively-poppin' Pat-a-Pan. Ayers' A Christmas Fantasia is vaguely reminiscent of a funkified Mannheim Steamroller production, and the "bonus track" Carribbean Fantasy on Joy to the World is an island delight.
Jesse Ayers is a talented fellow, and his Yuletide Offering is a charming concoction of electronic excitement for the holidays.
--Carol Swanson
(Reviewed in 2006)
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From the liner notes:
Charming Instrumental Settings of Traditional Carols
Jesse Ayers
A Yuletide Offering
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Label: Jesse Ayers
Length: 20 minutes
Genre: Electronic
Release: 2006
Track List
| Song Title |
|---|
| We Three Kings |
| Ukrainian Bell Carol |
| Greensleeves (What Child Is This?) |
| Pat-a-Pan |
| We Wish You a Merry Christmas |
| A Christmas Fantasia |
| Caribbean Fantasy on Joy to the World |