Satou Chikuzenbegan to work onChristmas songs as his music worksfrom 2013, and from 2014, he has been holding Christmas concert tour. Now that his series of activities and works have lasted over ten years, his compilation of Christmas works is coming.
During over a decade, Chikuzen made a release of three " Your Christmas Day
" albums and " Little Christma
s". OnOctober 22, he makes a release of best selection album including songs from those albums, and seven live recordings for the limited-edition. In addition, two newly recorded songs are included. One of them is "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
this song was recorded in1984in order to raise funds for the relief of famine-stricken Ethiopia. This song came before " We Are The World
", But unfortunately, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" seems to be less well-known than "We Are The World"
. I analyze that "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a reasonability song while "We Are The World" is not related with seasons -that cannot be the only reason, though. According to Chikuzen, Oogimi Gen
, who acquired percussion performance in Western Africa, takes part in "Do They Know It's Christmas?", adding African sound in this song. And all the musicians who joined in this recording sing "Feed the world" chorus.
On the first Christmas seasonafter ongoing Aggression war broke out, Aggressor state ignored traditional Christmas cease-fire and kept attacking.
"Do they know it's Christmas?" is a sentence to confront Aggressor state -I wonder how to say in Russian and Ukrainian.
”The Best of Your Christmas Day I, II, III & More" : POCE-12214