I already talked about Seven Octaves some time ago when I reviewed their "Simple Work" CD and since their approach to electronic music is quite unconventional I didn't know what to expect from an E.P. of Christmas carols. Kenny MacKenzie on this digital release (which is on sale at 1.98 USD) presents four traditional X-mas songs "Coventry Carol", "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "Deck the Halls", "Si Me Dan Pasteles" and an original tune titled "Incarnate". The four traditional tracks have been filtered through Kenny's techno ambient touch and sound great. A bit of mystery have been added to the joyful themes and now it seems to listen to Kraftwerk play X-mas tunes going door to door looking for robot hearts to warm. Now "Deck the halls" seems ready to be used for the soundtrack of the next "Clockwork orange" like movie but just check if Santa has a knife when he will visit you and everything will be ok. "Incarnate" is the only original and it sounds like a ambient funk tune that recalls me Vangelis. Nice...