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~Kristen Lawrence~ HalloweenOrgan.com

About Me

Halloween is begging for better music to accent its season. Have you ever looked for good Halloween music, only to find cheap display cases full of spooky sound effects and compilations that all include “The Monster Mash”? Ick .....Halloween deserves more! .....Kristen Lawrence, a classically-trained organist who has always loved the Halloween season, has created original Halloween Carols to start a lasting tradition of high quality celebrating .....Her enchanting music for October and Halloween is timeless and beautiful, yet catchy and clever. It will make your ears want to dance with one another and make your blood thump through your veins in utter glee .....The 5-song E.P. - "Arachnitect" (released August 2008) - is the first release from Kristen’s Halloween Carols. Kristen has been studying the history and origins of Halloween for the past decade and writing music inspired thereby. She has over 60 Halloween carols and songs written and will release them in batches of 13. Keep up with her "Bloggy Monster" and get some free downloads from her WebbySite: www.HalloweenOrgan.com ......Her new CD - "A Broom With A View" (released September 2009) - is a 13-track "goodie bag" of musical sweets for Trick-or-Treaters everywhere!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/07/2005
Band Website: http://www.HalloweenOrgan.com
Band Members: Just me! Come visit my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/HalloweenCarols
Influences: J.S. Bach, Danny Elfman and his whole Boingo, Nightwish, Tori Amos, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Loreena McKennitt, Hedningarna, Garmarna, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Nielsen, The Dandy Warhols, Devotchka, Gotan Project, Franz Ferdinand, Levellers, The Pogues, Siouxsie and the Banshees, October Project, Dead Can Dance, The Sisters of Mercy, Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica, Finntroll, Antonin Dvorak, Louis Vierne, Maurice Ravel, Shocking Blue, The Zombies, The Smiths, XTC, Shaï nO Shaï, The Changelings, Apoptigma Berzerk, In the Nursery, Deine Lakaien, Percy Grainger, Alice Cooper, Arvo Pärt, Astor Piazzolla, Henryk Gorecki, Kristin Hersh, Carmina Piranha, Ataraxia, Clannad, Altan, Stille Volk, The Living End, Stephen Duffy, The Lilac Time, Kings of Convenience, various fine Scandinavian metal bands, Polynesian drumming, sea chanties, folk tunes, and the myriad of early musics from medieval to renaissance in folk/secular form and the sacred ... bliss, bliss, and more aural bliss ...
Sounds Like: J.S. Bach bought some Marshall amps and Danny Elfman tromped through a 16th century masquerade festival.
Record Label: Vörswell Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Vampire Empire

I wrote Vampire Empire almost three years ago  February 13, 2007, to be exact.  Like a lot of my Halloween Carols", it was a study of counterpoint on the couch.  (Counterpoint is a type of musica...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:33:00 GMT

Dark Glass

My song Dark Glass is the only track on my A Broom With A View album that is not directly from my Halloween Carols" collection. I wrote this song before I had conceived the idea of Hallow...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:16:00 GMT

An Article on my Halloween Carols" from my Hometown Newspaper

Happy All Hallows Day, my dear Trick-or-Treaters!  I hope you all had enchanting, fun Halloweens last night. The Orange County Register published an article on my Halloween Carols" yesterday ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:04:00 GMT

Mostly Ghostly - the boast-y host-y

Of all my Halloween Carols, Mostly Ghostly is the only one for which I wrote the words first. Isnt that funny?  I was always taught by music teachers and professors that text comes first,...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:24:00 GMT

The Souling Songs - souling for souls

Before I purr on and on about the Souling Song, Id like to wish my soul friend, Lady Bats, a happy birthday today.  Happy All Births Day.  In her words, she and I are carved from the same pumpki...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:01:00 GMT

Broomy Zoomy Zoom!

Its time to blog about the title track from my Halloween CD this year  A Broom With A View. Its about a witch taking a joy ride on a broom.  This is one song I could call Halloween Hist...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:12:00 GMT

Sleeping Dust - humming past the graveyard

Sleeping Dust  The Death Lullaby is the third Halloween Carol I wrote. It came to me that first day when I decided that we need Halloween carols.  I had played the organ for a funeral, ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:53:00 GMT

More Cat Für You!

For those who dont sneeze at the presence or thought of a cat, I would like to let you know that Mollys song, Cats In The Catacombs, is up on YouTube.  Its mostly still photography, but includ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:18:00 GMT

Kitties in the Kitty-combs

If you dont like cats, I advise you to avert your eyes from this blog right now. Because Im going to tell you about my Halloween Carol, Cats In The Catacombs, which is full of cat goodnes...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:25:00 GMT

Miss Flappy Bat

Id like to tell you a bit about a bat.  A flappy bat.  Yes, I know that flappy is not a word, but I want it to be, and thats one reason I love writing music and lyrics & NO RULES.  Of ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:44:00 GMT