12 Days of Christmas - progressive rock style by Somewhere

Update: Progmas 2011 (the More Mellotron Mix) is here. Link in video annotations.

What do proggers want for Christmas? Well, it's all here, except maybe the extended song length. This is the Twelve Days of Christmas reworked in a prog way, with humor and respect for all the greats that have gone before.

Visit the band at http://www.somewhere.nu to download this song and the debut single Bridges.

All images are copyright of their respective owners and used under fair use doctrines applying to parodic and referential material.

Song: traditional, arranged by Fredrik Cerha and Somewhere.

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Music

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• progressive rock
• christmas
• 12 days
• prog
• prog rock
• Somewhere
• progmas
• mellotron
• mellotrons
• five mellotrons
• 12 Days of Christmas
• twelve days

[teaflax]

Somewhere's new song Lullaby for the Common Man (with very pretentious lyrics) is up on Youtube now. Either hit the link to the 2011 Progmas above and there's a link there, or do a search for somewhere and lullaby in the box at the top of the page.

[nintendo64isking]

love this im a massive genesis and yes fan :D

[teaflax]

@nintendo64isking As are we. So much so that we put some direct musical references to Genesis and Yes (and Tull and Gentle Giant) in the 2011 version.

[MsBkirk]

The pointless canons bit made me think of Neal Morse with Spock's Beard, though Gentle Giant originated that!

[teaflax]

@MsBkirk I would argue that GG's canons always did end up going somewhere, but otherwise, you're spot on.

[LisaLaRue2KX]

BRAVO!!!!  Encore!!!!

[teaflax]

@LisaLaRue2KX

Thank you, Lisa. The encore will debut at Sweden Prog Fest on Saturday and will be up on Youtube on Monday. It's a remixed, reworked and in bits substantially changed version with a brand new video and a few surprises.

[hombreelastico]

Really loved this! Definitely going on my Facebook profiles. Who says proggers can't have a laugh at themselves!! I was lucky enough that my father used to take me to gigs in the early 70s allowing me to experience bands like early Genesis (WITH Peter Gabriel) and PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) amongst others, so your video really sums up that whole era perfectly. Nice one!

[zedchuva]

No Ladies Dancing.... love it. Back in time, during the 80's, my band was playing a "Band Night" at a local club. In the middle of everyone's set they did a "spot dance", and the "best" dancers won some lame prize. Just so happened our spot dance song turned out to be Vital Signs by Rush. LOL! It was... interesting, to say the least. Only 2 girls actually stayed on the floor, so they won by default. Being prog on a rock night is awesome! :D

[magic8ballgirl]

And King Crimson c:

[magic8ballgirl]

I spot Yes,Genesis and Pink Floyd~.

[DiegoKatabian]

Change the christmas lyrics for some really pretentious ones, and you have a pretty nice prog song.

[agbjhw]

This obviously should have been 23 minutes long.

[dragonsrightwingisme]

@shredjoe1 - Hmmm - "The Fish" by Yes, "160 BPM" by Hans Zimmer, "Unsquare Dance" by Dave Brubeck (technically jazz, but ...), "Theme from Tron" by Wendy Carlos, "Battle of Epping Forest" "The Cinema Show" and "Dance on a Volcano" by Genesis, "Money" by Pink Floyd, "The Spirit of Radio" "Tom Sawyer" and La Villa Strangiato" by Rush ...

Also, 7/4 (or 7/8) have been used by Devo, XTC, Yanni, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, as well ...

Not exactly *un*common ...