Fireside Brass is a collection of our favorite holiday music: cherished songs from our childhoods, recent musical discoveries, and old standbys from the annual holiday house concerts we’d host in the living room of our Harlem apartment in our earliest days as a band. Some of the pieces we left relatively unadorned, while others were abstracted and personalized with a unique Westerlies touch. All of the music here was captured with a meticulous attention to detail and a spirit of spontaneity and improvisation. We hope this album brings you a sense of warmth, intimacy, and joy from our fireside to yours.
1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. Christmas Time Is Here
3. Deck the Hall
4. O Holy Night
5. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
6. Carol of the Bells
7. Still, Still, Still
8. Some Children See Him
9. Ma’oz Tzur
10. It’s Love, It’s Christmas
11. Oh Tannenbaum
12. A Merrier Christmas
13. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: Procession
14. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: Wolcum Yole!
15. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: There is no rose
The Westerlies:
Riley Mulherkar - Trumpet
Chloe Rowlands - Trumpet
Andy Clausen - Trombone
Willem de Koch - Trombone
All arrangements by The Westerlies
Recorded June 14-18, 2021 at Atterbury House, New York, NY
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Andy Clausen
Additional Engineering by Willem de Koch
Cover Design & Layout by Jack Dunnington
