Christmas

Tienda Defying the trend toward cloying renditions of the traditional Christmas canon, Philip Aaberg brings a new spirit to these tired songs. Aaberg is a veteran solo pianist who came to renown during the heyday of Windham Hill Records. He opens up pristine silences and melodically inventive expanses that seem to roll across the Montana plains of Aaberg's upbringing. "I Saw Three Ships" is the first signal that this is a different Christmas album. It takes a minute and a half before Aaberg even hints at the melody, as he improvises an elegiac fugue on the chords. Among the reworkings of traditional tunes, Aaberg sprinkles several originals, including the slip-sliding harmonies of "Montana Sleighride" and the quiet, open-plains spaces of "Earth Abides." Aaberg writes that he recorded this album between midnight and 4 a.m. in December 2000 while he was awaiting the birth of his son. Even without that cue, you can hear the quiet anticipation in his playing. --John Diliberto

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