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All I Want Christmas To Be – Our New Christmas Single

Is Christmas still how it used to be …

For many, us included, Christmas always stood for a time of magic and wonder, playtime and adventure. Born and raised there, we firmly believed in our Austrian version of Santa Claus. Instead of Father Christmas, every household gets a visit from the “Christkindl”, a golden-locked, angel-like figure packing presents underneath brightly decorated Christmas trees.

We believed in elves, fairies, reindeer and magic. Somehow more things became possible when the fairy lights went up and the rooms started smelling of cinnamon and oranges.When writing “All I Want Christmas To Be” we went back to that time … when Christmas (at least for us kids) didn’t mean stress, spending money on obligatory gifts, being pestered by cheesy commercials and trying to avoid hearing “Last Christmas” for the hundredth time.

We hope you enjoy the video we put together for the song, and if you like it, would encourage you to share it with your friends and maybe send them back down memory lane to their own childhood Christmas experiences!

We also wouldn’t mind you sending it to your favourite radio station, sharing it on Social Media or adding it to the playlist of your nearest Christmas market 🙂 We would also love for you to leave a comment underneath the YouTube video or in the comments section on our website ♥ Thank you, guys and have a lovely start into the Christmas season!

Mona & Lisa

PS: Just a friendly reminder that until tomorrow midnight, you can still get 20% off our entire online store using the Coupon Code Black19 at checkout.

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Snow Falls Softly At Night – New Video

Greetings, Everyone!

Are you beginning to feel festive? Maybe the cups of teas are getting more frequent, the cinnamon candles are replacing the tropical smells, and you’re sneaking in the first Christmas deco pieces?Here’s a video to suit the mood 🙂

“Snow Falls Softly At Night” (originally titled “Leise Rieselt Der Schnee”) is a German traditional song that you can find on our CHRISTMAS album we have released less than two weeks ago.

It’s the only song on the album that includes some lyrics in our mother tongue, so if you were ever curious what we sound like in German, now you know: 🙂

Don’t worry, we switch to English halfway through!

We hope you enjoy and as always, stay groovy!
Mona & Lisa

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Our ‘CHRISTMAS’ Album Is Out Now!

It’s Release Day!

Our album ‘CHRISTMAS’ is now officially out!

Those of you who have pre-ordered their copies will have received an e-mail with the album download link, and the first parcels should be arriving at your doorstep already. Please tell us what you think, we’ve been sitting on pins and (pine) needles all week, anticipating this day! 😛

Have A Listen …

If you haven’t ordered the album yet but want to know what you’ll be missing out on … 😉 … you can a have a listen to the audio samples here or watch some of our previous Christmas videos on the Video Page:

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You can also join the MLT Club and get immediate access to the whole album (as well as our entire back catalogue) for streaming and download! 🙂

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below and once again want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has bought our music and supports this musical journey!Festive love from the whole MLT team to all of you ♥

Mona & Lisa

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‘CHRISTMAS’ – Album Trailer!

The trailer for our upcoming CHRISTMAS album is here …

… With a little bit of a sneak peak on some of the new recordings and also our original song All I Want Christmas To Be’.

The full track list is:

  • All I Want Christmas To Be
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
  • Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
  • Wonderful Christmastime
  • Snow Falls Softly At Night
  • Winter Wonderland
  • It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
  • Walking In The Air
  • Santa Baby
  • Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
  • Silent Night

Are you looking forward to any track in particular?

The finished CDs will arrive from the pressing plant in only a few days, and our elfs are ready to start packing pre-orders straight away. It’s the most wonderful time of the year … how fitting! 😉

Thanks to all who have already secured their copies ♥ If you want to pre-order some as well, you can find all available bundles here. Don’t forget, we offer discount prices up to -20% in case you want to give away some copies to friends, family, co-workers or neighbours! More info in the product description  of the CD.

Stay groovy & get Christmassy,

Mona & Lisa

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‘CHRISTMAS’ Album Pre-Order

Pre-Orders start TODAY // Release Date – November 1

We know, it’s still September but things are about to get Christmassy!

We are finally able to announce that we will release a Christmas album this year, and pre-orders are starting … TODAY!

About ‘CHRISTMAS’

As many of you know, it’s become somewhat of a tradition to release a new Christmas song for you every year. This year we decided to take it up a notch and release a full album!

It will simply be called ‘CHRISTMAS’ and is going to include covers of well-known Christmas songs – traditional and contemporary – as well as an original song called ‘All I Want Christmas To Be’.

We’ve experimented quite a lot with quirky instrumentation and arrangements, some jazzy vocal and guitar parts and other somewhat unusual approaches to some of your favourite Christmas songs. The last thing we wanted to do was to walk down the beaten track and create a “normal” Christmas album.

All that being said, rest assured there will be a fair share of jingle bells, Holiday cheer and tranquil moments on this album to go along with the more “out there” parts.

As you know, these things take some preparation, so we have spent a lot of the Summer, including the hottest days of the year, recording Christmas songs in our boiling hot studio (by British standards anyway 😉 ).

Pre-Order & Shipping

If you decide to pre-order ‘CHRISTMAS’ or any of the bundles available on our webstore, this is what you’ll get:

  • Your order will include a Christmas card from us.
  • You will be amongst the very first to listen to the new album. Right when the clock strikes midnight (GMT) on November 1 we will send out the download versions of the album while your physical CD might still be on its way to you.
  • The download package will provide you with MP4, FLAC, and m4a files, as well as the album artwork including the lyrics of our original.
  • The latest shipping date for all pre-orders is October 31. We aim to send off international orders slightly in advance so that they will arrive roughly around the release date (not guaranteed though).
  • That means your album(s) will arrive well in time for the Holiday season. Even if you’re in a more remote location or post offices/carriers mess up, you’ll still have the album(s) in your hands before the Christmas mail chaos sets in.

Want to get your album signed?

If you’d like your album signed or a special note or name written on your CD, maybe as a Christmas present for yourself or someone else, join the MLT Club. As always, all Club Members’ pre-orders will get signed automatically. For special dedications on your albums simply leave a message for us in the “order notes” field.

In the months ahead, we’ll also be posting lots of extra content around ‘CHRISTMAS’ in the Club, like making-of videos and exclusive Christmassy content. So now is definitely a good time to try it and join us for the Christmas party warm-up. 🙂

We’ve had so much fun working on this record and are especially proud of the original song on the album. We can’t wait for you to hear it and promise a lot more original music to come.

We’ve hinted on a new self-panned record for a while which obviously had to take the backseat for this Christmas album.

We hope it is going to add a whole lot of joy to your Holiday season this year and already want to thank everyone who decides to order ‘CHRISTMAS’.

Take care, take a few risks and of course … stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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Video Shoot – Leise Rieselt Der Schnee – Photos

We hope everyone had a fab start into the New Year and that you haven’t caught yourself writing 2018 instead of 2019 too many times yet.

We’ve been taking a little bit of a breather over the last few days to let the Christmas business ring out, and the New Year ring in with some good ol’ New Year’s resolutions and mapping out the upcoming months ahead.

We’re also starting to get back to everyone in the “Ask MLT” Forum again. Thanks for the many interesting questions that keep coming in, we’ll answer as many as we can over the next few days.

Before we completely miss the season of when posting wintery Christmassy photos is acceptable, we want to share a few snaps of when we filmed the video for “Leise Rieselt der Schnee“.
Chilly greetings and see you soon with another photo post from the archives,

Mona & Lisa

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Little Drummer Boy – New Video!

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Purum Pum Pum Pum …

This year’s Christmas cover is really special to us, even more so now that both Bing Crosby and David Bowie are gone whose bittersweet and hauntingly beautiful version we leaned on when recording our cover of “Little Drummer Boy”.

We hope you enjoy our rendition and would love to hear what you think in the comments.

Now that it’s December we think it’s fair to say that the Holiday season has officially begun. Personally, we love it! Sure, there are many, possibly valid things to be cynical about when it comes to the whole Festive Season, maybe starting with the fact that we saw the first Christmas jumpers in the shop windows the day after Halloween 😉 But all in all we still look forward to December every year. Family, music, hot chocolate and cosy jumpers are always a plus in our books 🙂

If you’re an MLT Club member don’t forget to open the first window of the Advent Calendar we’ve prepared. 

Much love to everyone and whether you’re celebrating Christmas or not, have a groovy December!  

Mona & Lisa

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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – New Christmas Video

Our Christmas Video is here …
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!

You can buy real fir trees and their fake companions everywhere now, high budget tear-jerking adverts are back, and it’s blasting Christmas music everywhere. The holidays are near!

We hope you are having a peaceful and jolly December and can tackle whatever life throws at you with more love and lightness 🙂

Enjoy our little contribution to this year’s celebrations and let’s make this holiday season magical!

Stay groovy,
Mona and Lisa
PS: This also happens to be the 100th video on our YouTube channel!

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“Wonderful Christmastime” – Christmas Video!

Only a few more days left until Christmas!

We hope you’re all feeling very festive already and have your presents sorted, roast dinners planned, gifts wrapped (… if you’re anything like us go for SQUARE presents) and plans made for the big day. In short: we hope you are having a Wonderful Christmastime.

We surprised ourselves this year and finished all the shopping last weekend already, ha! This gives us time to soak in the “Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” without breaking out in a cold sweat every time we realize we still have to get presents. Good times!

And of course we prepared a little video for you all, our anual present to you 🙂 ENJOY!

Please let us know how you liked it and feel free to share it with your loved ones! In case you missed last year’s video “Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” you can go watch it here for a double dose of holiday cheer!

You’ll hear from us again at the end of the year! Meanwhile we hope you are spending the holidays with your family and friends and are enjoying the wonderful Christmas season. Even if you aren’t celebrating Christmas we hope you are having a great week ahead.

Lots and lots of groovy, christmassy love,
Mona & Lisa

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“It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” – Christmas Video!

In Austria (where we are from) today would be the “main” Christmas Day. The 24th is when the family gets together. There is a big dinner, the tree gets decorated and the presents exchanged. Since this is only our second winter living in the UK, it still feels a bit strange to wait until tomorrow for the “big day”.

Doing a bit of research we realised how completely different the traditions are, even from Christian country to Christian country. So whenever you are celebrating, or not celebrating at all, we hope you had a wonderful day so far.

Our Christmas present to ourselves this year is to keep the “celebrations” to a minimum and save us some of the hassle to be able to keep up the intensive song-writing. But that doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy dressing up for the occasion and recording this little Christmas video for you.

Enjoy, spread the word and let the music take over!

Peace & Love,
Mona & Lisa