A Rubber Band Christmas

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A Rubber Band Christmas
Album cover
Studio album by
The Rubberband Band
Released1996, 2000
GenreNovelty, Christmas music
Length23:27
LabelCD Freedom/Artist Development Associates

A Rubber Band Christmas is a 1996 instrumental

Christmas novelty album featuring traditional and popular Christmas songs played entirely on rubber bands, staplers and other office equipment. The album is noted for its comic effects and has been described as one of the "weirdest"[1][2] and most novel releases of its type.[3]

Description

The album came about when two artists, Jeff St. Pierre and Philip Antoniades, found themselves bored one evening at the office and began creating Christmas music out of rubber bands, staplers, tape and other office supplies to hand.[4][3] After entertaining themselves through the night with this diversion, they forwarded the results as a "seasonal thank you" to friends and associates.[4] The recording was sufficiently well received that Artist Development Associates of Framingham, Massachusetts, decided to release it as a CD, under the title A Rubber Band Christmas, with St. Pierre and Antoniades going by the name "The Rubberband Band".[4] The CD was re-released on October 24, 2000.[3]

The album's fourteen tracks typically feature a rubber band twanging out the melody, while a ruler struck at different lengths adds a bass accompaniment. Rhythm is sometimes supplied through the use of "quickly-yanked frosty tape".

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) and "Feliz Rubberdad" (Feliz Navidad), etc.[3]

Reception

CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album would have strong appeal to "aficionados of the pop-culturally weird".[2]

Kyle Brown of Rubber and Plastic News wrote that "The snaps and twangs aren't always pitch-perfect, but a lot of spirit comes through. Even the off notes sometimes sound catchy in new and interesting ways."

Irish Times included the album at number four on a list of "5 weirdest albums of all time", describing it as "a unique listening experience ... Criminally out of print, it can only be listened to in [short] intervals" but "you sort of want it in your collection all the same."[1]

Tracks from the album have been featured on both the

Radio National websites, the latter in a "Christmas surprise cracker."[8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Rubber Bells" (
Joy To The World)
0:52
13."Rubber Bell Rock" (Jingle Bell Rock)1:47
14."Rubber Night (Ode to Kim)" (Silent Night)2:34
Total length:23:27

Source for track listing: AllMusic.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Boyd, Brian (July 22, 2011). "Matt effect". The Irish Times. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  2. ^
    CMJ New Music Monthly
    . CMJ Holdings Corp. p. 57.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Phares, Heather (2019). "A Rubber Band Christmas". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "A Rubber Band Christmas". CMJ Music Monthly. Somerville, MA: CMJ Holdings Corp. December 1997.
  5. ^ Brown, Kyle (December 13, 2017). "Wacky World of Rubber: Christmas songs played by a rubber band". Rubber & Plastics News. Crain Communications, Inc. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  6. Le Journal de Montreal
    . Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  7. British Broadcasting Corporation
    . 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  8. ^ "Christmas Sleeve". ABC Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. December 25, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2019.

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