As we mentioned our first Holiday Spotlight posted today, we’re big fans of the classics, especially when they’re given a new twist. So it is with Carlo Serafini‘s interpretation of “Jingle Bells.”
Carlos Serafini is an Italian born master of many instruments who’s been creating music since he was in his teens. Concentrating on both piano and percussion, Serafini won a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee School of Music in 1989. Twenty years later, still focusing on his craft, he was awarded a Master’s in Music at Florence University for his dissertation on technology and microtonal music.
Though his current work focuses on xenharmonic music (i.e, music that doesn’t conform to the standard 12 tone tuning system), Serafini’s charming interpretation of “Jingle bells” stays fairly close to what we’d expect.
Renamed “Jingle Gamma Bells,” the shimmering tones of the keyboard and guitars in Serafini’s reading remind us, strangely, of both a winter afternoon in the snowy countryside and wavey Hawaiian afternoon on the beach.
Luckily, the holidays happen in both those places and this version of “Jingle Bells” fits them both (and everywhere in between).
