Christmas in Middle-Earth is the culmination of 8 years' efforts and fandom. It started as occasional demos released online every year or so. During the quarantine in 2020, the fictional band teamed up to refine, rerecord, remix, and remaster the entire album, topping it off with its final tune.

Written and recorded in various apartments and home studios all over the East Coast from 2012 to 2020, the project has had extremely generous contributions from true musical virtuosos and LOTR fans alike.

Please note this is pure parody, and pure tribute to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, every single person who worked on the films, and the magnificently beautiful score written by Howard Shore.

We hope it brings you joy. ​"May It be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."
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released November 27, 2020

ALBUM CREDITS

MUSIC AND LYRICS
WRITTEN, ARRANGED, PERFORMED, SUNG, AND PRODUCED BY Brendan Dalton

ADDITIONAL LYRICS BY Evan Hall on 1, 3

RECORDED AND MIXED BY Brendan Dalton

ADDITIONAL RECORDING AND MIXING BY Mark Frankel and Rion Smith

MASTERED BY Mark Frankel at Nearfield

WITH

BRENDAN DALTON Piano, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Trumpet, Accordion, Keyboard, Percussion

AND (THANKFULLY) THE 1740 BOYS CHOIR

ALEX CURRAN Violin on 3
MARK FRANKEL Drums and Percussion on 1, 3, 4, 7, 10
ANDREW GOEBEL Vocals on 2
EVAN HALL Vocals on 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, Guitar on 1, 3, 7, 8
LARRY HEINEMANN Bass on 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10
PATRICK KAPP Electric Guitar and Organ on 1
PHILIP MAYER Percussion on 7
ASH MCNAIR Vocals on 3
RION SMITH Drums and Percussion on 2, 5, 8, 9, Bass on 2, 5

A HUGE AMOUNT OF THANKS to the following humans for their contributions in development, performance, and general support throughout the years:

Alex Curran, Evan Hall, Bill Buse, Andrew Goebel, Emory Cohen, Tom Costello, AJ Ditty, Jacob Brandt, Phil Feldman, Ash McNair, Jake Beckhard, Patrick Kapp, Jake Ahlquist, Tyler Schwartz, Kerry Gilbert, Alex Riad, Adam Roberts, Philip Mayer, Rion Smith, Larry Heinemann, Mark Frankel.

This album is lovingly dedicated to Alex Curran. Thank you for putting up with all this nonsense for so long. At long last, it is finished.
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For now.

Christmas in Middle-Earth

Buy the album "Mosaic Mirrors" at: andrewscandal.bandcamp.com/album/mosaic-mirrors

Written, performed, and recorded by Andrew Scandal. All rights reserved.

Lyrics:

My name is midnight, my name is cold bones and whispers.
My name is night-thoughts, call me the color kisser.
My eyes are streetlights, shadows, mosaic mirrors.
My mind of wet-winds, spitting shiny terrors.

Doo doo doo, you know it’s how I roll…
Superpowers in small hours, you know it’s how I roll...

Next to crumpled cardboard, a patch of alley flowers.
The limping legs that, measure city blocks into hours.
Smoking circles round bus stop pageant contestants,
A bag of brain-juice, to help create and imagine.

Doo doo doo, you know it’s how I roll…
Superpowers in small hours, you know it’s how I roll...

In subway echoes and Broadway battles,
that make the doors slam and windows rattle.
Superpowers in the smallest hours,
reciting rainstorms from the dollhouse tower.

Doo doo doo, you know it’s how I'm gonna roll…
Superpowers in small hours, you know it’s how I'm gonna roll with it...


Superpowers

Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/QuCP2fnK9Hs

"Dress Rehearsal" is out NOW via Grind Select: bit.ly/1cjCd23 
Written, Recorded, and Produced by Corey Regensburg
Mastered by Matt Colton (Alchemy Mastering)

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Shake

Written, performed, and recorded by Andrew Scandal.
All rights reserved.

Lyrics:

I smoked three packs,
As my mind went blue,
But today was yesterday and,
The day before too.

And cigarettes,
Are just ashes,
Like us all,
We’re all blown away.

But sweetheart I’ve got to warn ya,
The streetlights are out to swarm ya.
It’s not like we were born for,
Cold winters in California

Three kings for god,
But none for me,
The golden gifts I got for her,
I’ll save for another queen.

If the starry skies,
Could see us now,
They’d cry all night,
They’d laugh out loud.

But sweetheart I’ve got to warn ya,
The streetlights are out to swarm ya.
It’s not like we were born for,
Cold winters in California


Cold Winters (in California)

Watch "Fool" music video! https://youtu.be/Dmi7xBQQAC4

"Fool / Echo Back" out now on Grind Select (@grindselect) -- digitally & via limited edition scratch-off lottery tickets. Order lotto tix here: https://grindselect.bandcamp.com/album/fool-echo-back

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Art by Annie Ryan

Mastered by Ryan Schwabe (Raremp3s)

Fool

From the Winter Seems to Grow EP. http://taketheveil.bandcamp.com/album/winter-seems-to-grow-ep

email: pmangiaforte@yahoo.com

This New December

Mon Petit Amour

Recorded in one take on an Iphone at the Hacienda Hotel in Los Angeles, California. 

Daily Thoughts

©2015
Co-produced by Braden Blair

Lyrics:

You were standing next to a friend that night.
Wish you would stand next to me.
And when you step into the light,
you're the only one I see.

Yes, I know what love is,
so I guess I understand.
And I don't think you're songs are dumb.
You know I try the best I can.

To: Lucinda

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To: Lucinda

Written, performed, and produced by Andrew Scandal

There are colors all around us,
Cotton-candy for our eyes.
I’ve seen golden sights and silver showers,
What do you see in the sky?

I’ve seen your glow in old picture shows,
It’s like a colorized movie,
It’s black and white, you shine so brightly,
Just like a colorized movie.

Tell me all your favorite colors, 
Would it still be blue if you could paint the sky
And for those old Casablanca lovers
What color would you paint Ilsa’a eyes?

I sat with Barbie in the dollhouse,
She never spoke so she told no lies.
Her eyes were blue like a pool of water,
She took her pink Corvette for a Sunday ride

I’ve seen your glow in old picture shows,
It’s like a colorized movie,
It’s black and white, you shine so brightly,
Just like a colorized movie.

I sat in the dark at the Chinese Theater,
And Dorothy’s rubies were a sparkling sight.
Emerald cities and yellow bricks to steer her,
A row of stars as the screen glowed bright.

I’ve seen your glow in old picture shows,
It’s like a colorized movie,
It’s black and white, you shine so brightly,
Just like a colorized movie.


A Merryless Christmas (Merry and Pippin Sing of Friendship)

Brendan Dalton

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