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On My First Christmas

from My Message by Paul Kotheimer

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On my first Christmas, three astronauts witnessed a pale blue gibbous Earthrise above the moon's dark side, and I was told that they recited Matthew's Nativity on all four channels of television and nobody thought about the war that night, not even Nixon, except the boys and girls in the jungle beneath the whirring of the helicopters.

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from My Message, released September 1, 2014
Words and music by Paul Kotheimer. First draft written circa 1997, song completed circa 2011. Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, vocal, drums and sound collage by PK. Accordion by David Tcheng. Final bowed strings and drone sounds by Chris Vaisvil. Sound collage elements: The crew of Apollo 8 reading from Genesis on live TV while in lunar orbit, 12/24/1968, plus other audio from the period (including LBJ, Walter Cronkite, various Viet Nam documentary footage) over an except from the Helicopter String Quartet of Karlheinz von Stockhausen.

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Paul Kotheimer Urbana, Illinois

For well over 30 years now, Paul Kotheimer has been writing songs. And then recording them. And then putting them together into albums.
At first, way way back in the actual 1980s, he used a cassette player and a microphone from Radio Shack. Now he's the proprietor of Pillow Monster Home Studio, complete with lots of musical instruments and recording gear and one actual pillow monster. YAY MUSIC!
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