CMJ 2008: Day 5

Q&A: The Music Tapes

Julian Koster
Your latest release on Merge is The Singing Saw at Christmastime. What kind of songs are on there?
All traditional Christmas songs.

Sacred or secular?
Well, they're all kind of sacred, aren't they? Even "Frosty the Snowman" is sacred. The way people behave towards each other and the world during holidays is something spiritual. It transcends any intellectual framework you could put on it.