Hi all,
I know, I know, I quite literally just published my evil revisitation of Feliz Navidad, but as anticipated I had something else cooking, and this something is now finally ready!
I recommend watching the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5aWlocKShs
but if you want audio only, it's available on my Faircamp instance (where you can also download it):
https://music.lminiero.it
In a nutshell, I've been in love for months with this old ABBA-style Japanese Christmas song called "Koibito Ga Santa Claus" (My boyfriend Santa Claus), by Yumi Matsutoya. At a certain point, I decided I'd record a cover, and make a silly video out of it for Christmas, like I did last year with the Odin one. This time, I enrolled my whole family, and asked them to send me some videos while listening to it: after a bit of editing and a lot of silliness, here it is! Of course, don't take it too seriously: I certainly didn't 
If you're curious about the song, I based my cover on this amazing semi-live performance: I remained pretty faithful to it, except for some more heaviness as per my usual. My homage to the guitar player was done by needlessly wearing those sunglasses in the video 
Technically speaking there's nothing new, my workflow hasn't changed, so it's the usual mix of MuseScore for laying down the parts, Ardour 7 as DAW, Yoshimi for all synths, Drumgizmo (Muldjord Kit) for drums, guitarix for crunching my bass, my POD X3 for guitars, and all cooked with some (a lot of) Dragonfly Reverb. The only thing that is actually new is how I did vocals, since I took inspiration from @Tenaba and for the first time used SynthV: instead of using Eleanor Forte, though, I used Yamine Renri as the voice, since I needed a Japanese vocalist. I was surprised by how easy it was working with it: I didn't do anything on articulations, or any attempt to fancy it up, and it still came up much better than I expected it would!
I hope you'll enjoy this, and I'll take advantage of this to wish you all some Happy Holidays!
