Italian Christmas

We hardly write about Italy. 'Memoria Polaroid' is a music blog and radio show from Bologna, busy since 2001. "On the morning of December 13th, scandinavian girls wear white robes and a crown of candles. The darkness of the night of Saint Lucia, which according to the Julian Calendar was the longest night of the year, is now behind us and light can return." This is how their Xmas bandcamp compilation opens. After a couple of december posts about Xmas music, like this one, they released this fine compilation. Between the 19 contributors a lot of unknown names and quite a few Italian names. Unfortunately not every song sound or is christmassy.

This one is a nice Italian electro song: 

And there are few covers to discover like this noisy one from the great Low song: 

Or this very Christmas version, with bells, from the Joni Mitchell classic: