Sister Winter - Tracey Thorn Cover - Xmas Remix

Happy Christmas.
Music : Tracey Thorn sings her version of "Sister Winter" by "Sufjan Stevens" -
Editor : Bahramerad -
This version is the director's Remix (H D) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4allu_7n4&hd=

Songs for Christmas . We think of the holidays as a joyous time, but what happens when life's darker moments intervene? Sufjan Stevens explores that paradox on his lilting 2006 Christmas song "Sister Winter," and its message resonated with Everything But the Girl singer (now turned solo artist) Tracey Thorn, who recorded a cover version. Hear it below. Thorn tells SPIN she began her take of the song -- culled from Stevens' epic, 42-song holiday collection Songs for Christmas -- this summer in Berlin, but her studio session was scrapped when her mother became quite ill, forcing her to fly home to England. Tragically, Thorn lost her mom a few weeks later, but found solace in finishing "Sister Winter," whose narrator, in Thorn's words, "has been feeling down, but is now returning, specifically in order to wish everyone a happy Christmas." "Now of course the song fits my mood exactly, which is that I have had a tough second half of this year, but here comes Christmas, and I really do want to send good wishes to everyone, especially everyone who has been so kind and supportive to me in the last few months," she explains. Thorn, whose 2010 album Love and Its Opposite just made one of our year-end lists, says she likes the atmosphere of the song, "which falls somewhere between a kind of introspective melancholy, and a determined Christmas cheerfulness, which is battling to keep the melancholy at bay." The singer's beautifully understated voice, particularly in an overdubbed harmony during the chorus, is positively angelic, and slightly synthetic instrumentation delivers a inviting, albeit chilly, electronic pulse. Check out "Sister Winter" for yourself below, and tell us what you think in the comments. You can also download some holiday offerings from Tracey in her special "Christmas Stocking"
PS: Stevens was born in Detroit and lived there until the age of nine, when his family moved to Petoskey, Michigan. In Petoskey he attended Harbor Light Christian School as well as the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy. He went on to attend Hope College in Holland, Michigan and earned a Master of Fine Arts from The New School in New York City.[5]
Sufjan is a Persian name[6] that predates Islam and most famously belonged to Abu Sufyan, a figure from early Islamic history. The name was given to Stevens by the founder of Subud, an inter-faith spiritual community to which his parents belonged when he was born.[7] The name "Sufjan" means "comes with a sword."[8]
Stevens' parents later gave him the option to change his name, but he was unable to think of a name that he liked; his parents later admitted that they did not really have the money for him to legally change his name.
Lyrics:
Oh my friends I've
Begun to worry right
Where I should be grateful
I should be satisfied

Oh my heart I
Would clap and dance in place
With my friends I have so
Much pleasure to embrace

But my heart is
Returned to sister winter
But my heart is
As cold as ice

Oh my thoughts I
Return to summertime
When I kissed your ankle
I kissed you through the night

All my gifts I gave everything you
Your strange imagination
You threw it all away

Now my heart is
Returned to sister winter
Now my heart is
As cold as ice

All my friends, I've
Returned to sister winter
All my friends, I
Apologise, apologise

All my friends, I've
Returned to sister winter
All my friends, I
Apologise, apologise

All my friends, I've
Returned to sister winter
All my friends, I
Apologise, apologise

La la la la la . . .

And my friends, I've
Returned to wish you all the best
And my friends, I've
Returned to wish you all the best
And my friends, I've
Returned to wish you all the best
And my friends, I've
Returned to wish you a happy Christmas

To wish you a happy Christmas
To wish you a happy Christmas
To wish you a happy Christmas

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[argieav]

Very evocative actually those semi detached suburbs in snow. Good images for the song - Tracey is ace as always of course.

[TheCantOfficial]

I heard this on turntable.fm. I love this cover so much. I truly do.