Santamental

Steve Lukather - Santamental

Santamental
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Artist: Steve Lukather
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Music Label: Favored Nations
Soundtracks:
  1. Joy to the World
  2. Greensleeves
  3. Jingle Bells
  4. Carol of the Bells
  5. Broken Heart for Christmas
  6. Angels We Have Heard on High
  7. Winter Wonderland
  8. Look Out for Angels
  9. Silent Night
  10. Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) [*]

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Free Music Review: Unique Holiday Rock
Hit: 4 Stars

This CD was a pleasant surprise. I didn't really know what I was getting when I ordered this disc, I just took a risk because I liked Lukather's track on another Christmas CD I have. (Merry Axemas, I can't remember whether it's vol. 1 or 2) While the Merry Axemas discs were mostly straight-ahead rock, this one has a LOT of jazz influence, and I love it! The liner notes talk about using a lot of "grown-up chords", and he's not kidding around. They tinker with the chord progressions, rhythms, and time signatures enough to make these old carols really pop, but not to the point where you can't tell what they are. I think I'd still classify it as rock, but just barely. There's more influence from John Coltrane than Ted Nugent... ;)

If you're sick of the same old Mannheim Steamroller cheesy synth nonsense and the same endlessly reheated and boring Christmas music that you hear every year, pick this one up. The arrangements are fresh, yet respectful. You'll easily recognize each track for what it is, but you still won't know what's coming next. The guest list includes Eddie Van Halen, Edgar Winter, and Steve Vai, and they don't disappoint. You even get to hear Winter play a mean sax! (I told you you won't know what's coming next!)

The only reason I give this 4 stars and not 5 is that it's a Christmas album, so I can only listen to it for 1/12 of the year. As a Christmas disc, it's definitely 5 star worthy.

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Special guests include Jeff Babko, John Piere, Gregg Bissonette, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Edgar Winter, Trevor Lukather, Simon Philips, Mike Landau, Scott Hamilton, Lenny Catro and the vocals of Sammy Davis Jr on a version of "Jingle Bells". The album will be specially packaged in an 8 panel digipak and features behind the scenes CD-rom video footage.
Look up in the sky, is that Santa's flying sleigh or a Gibson Flying V? In what is the year's best play on the sentimental Santa season, Steve Lukather and his distinguished axemen like Slash, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen and others such as Edgar Winter, mix up the pyro-techniques from the day with the merriments and potholes of the season in what also could be called SantaMetal. The guys do a fair amount of improvising here and there in a combination soft-jazz-hard-rock fusion that runs from the furious to fanciful. Visiting "Carol of the Bells," "Joy to the World," and "Silent Night" among the 10 tracks here, the guys never met a piano section they didn't love to solo over. Even when they go for the bloozey, down-and-out effect on "Broken Heart at Christmas," or warn, "Look Out for Angles," the spirit of the season and mingling of like-minded guitar slingers can't mask how much fun they're really having in the jingle gym. And that's a fairly sentimental notion even a grinch could detect, however manic it sounds at times. -- Martin Keller

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