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Shillong Chamber Choir on their music, lockdown experiences and the coming year We choose the songs we like. It’s important we do not send toxic messages of any kind. The idea is to always find what we’re doing interesting, said founder Neil Nongkynrih Updated: December 22, 2020 6:39:17 pm
Shillong Chamber Choir recently released their latest album, Come Home Christmas. (Photo: PR handout)
The Shillong Chamber Choir is known for its melodious songs with, as founder Neil Nongkynrih puts it, “twists that the listener didn’t expect”. After the roaring success of their medley released on May 3 to raise funds for coronavirus, the choir is all set to host an online concert ‘Come Home Christmas’ also the name of their latest album on December 22.
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Go Tell It On The Mountain as a disco song,
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen performed with a nod to Queen, and several kings instead of just three visiting Jesus Christ after his birth. Those are just few of the several surprises in
Come Home Christmas, the new album by Shillong Chamber Choir.
Conceptualised by the choir’s founder Neil Nongkynrih, the December 18 release offers Christmas carols and gospel songs featuring instruments and languages from West Asia.
The tracks include sections in ancient Aramaic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu, and Khasi, the first language for Nongkynrih and most of his group. The instruments used include darbuka, ney, oud, duduk, and saz. Additionally, the carols are blended with passages from George Fredric Handel’s mid-18th century oratorio