Please visit the new EMP youtube page at www.youtube.com/EMPProject. Additionally, the other individual players in EMP are: David Presley: www.youtube.com/scubatarkus Mark Estes: www.youtube.com/HawkStudio Mark DeGregory: www.youtube.com/MDDRUMZ Graham Seaman: www.youtube.com/babayaga321 Jakob Wimmler: www.youtube.com/jackinart The first time I heard this song, a little more than a year ago, I thought it was just a really cool "RAWKED-OUT" version of Carol of the Bells, which is my all time favorite Christmas carol. I recently discovered that I had no clue as to the true essence and origin of this particular composition as brought forth by Savatage and The Trans Siberian Orchestra. The piece describes a lone cello player playing a forgotten Christmas carol in war-torn Sarajevo. Wikipedia denotes how Paul O'Neill (co-founder of TSO) explained the story behind Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 in an interview published on ChristianityToday.com: "...We heard about this cello player born in Sarajevo many years ago (Vedran Smailović) who left when he was fairly young to go on to become a well-respected musician, playing with various symphonies throughout Europe. Many decades later, he returned to Sarajevo as an elderly man—at the height of the Bosnian War, only to find his city in complete ruins. I think what most broke this man's heart was that the destruction was not done by some outside invader or natural disaster—it was done by his own people. At that time, Serbs were shelling ...
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