Worldwide release on NOVEMBER 6, 2007
Late one cold winter night, our Little Drummer Boy found himself alone in his chilly recording studio - it's Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, done psychedelic Santa style.
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra is back once again, working their own renditions of holiday classics.
Lee's sound, which started as a take on old-school library albums and has grown into a sound of his own, it's made possible by his inability to stop making music in an insanely overpopulated studio. A 1940's early proto-synth called a Clavioline, a 100 year old Marxophone zither, a 1950's Virginal Harpsichord, a 1950's Xylophone, a rare 1967 Vox guitar that has Fuzz, Tremelo and wah-wah built in, a 1930's Double Bass and an early 1900's keyboard called a Dulcetone all reside within the walls of Lee's facilities.
As a multi-instrumentalist and singer Shawn Lee has earned the respect and worked with such talent as Zero 7, Psapp, Coldcut, Leeann Rhimes, Martina Mcbride, UNKLE, Tony Joe White, Chateau Flight, The Dust Brothers, St. Etienne, Jeff Buckley, Bomb The Bass, The Spice Girls (!), and Natasha Atlas - not to mention solo records for Talkin' Loud, Wall of Sound imprint We Love You and BBE. He is also known to breaks n'beats collectors as the man behind The Ape Breaks and Planet of the Breaks series which were sampled by everyone from Guru to The Gorillaz. Music by Lee has been used in commercials for BMW and Jaguar, in multiple TV shows, and in addition to the Oceans 13 movie, he has had music in The Break Up and Save Angel Hope. He was also asked to score the entire soundtrack to the highly controversial Rock Star (Grand Theft Auto, The Warriors) video game Bully for which he was nominated Best Original Video Game Score by Spike TV.
Whatever the case - it's a freakin' Christmas record, with a bit more funk!
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