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Communauté électroacoustique canadienne
Canadian Electroacoustic Community
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Canadian Electroacoustic Community
GM-500 — 1455, boulevard De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
http://cec.sonus.ca - cec@sonus.ca
Works » By Title » C » Christmas 1987 (2:45 / 1987)
Edited version of Frank Koustrup Fan Club OFFICIAL 1987 Christmas Tape.
Christmas 1987 is a satire of the popular music business — fan clubs, merchandise, gimmicks. This composition takes a cue from The Beatles’ Christmas records. Commercial phrases such as “For Christmas gift-giving ideas”, “Just can’t wait for Christmas”, build to a shameless, hyperventilated plug for a Greatest Hits record. Rolling echoes devolve into a looping mantra that “Rock and roll is dead”.
- Studio: Hope Street (home)
- Premiere: Performed at the CEC Diffusion festival in Toronto - the shortest composition on the program, but with the longest title