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Did someone say Christmas albums? One of my many failed ventures is the Annual Roundup of Tolerable Christmas Music<\/a>, which ran on Beliefnet precisely one annum. For one thing, I found out there\u2019s not enough tolerable Christmas music released each year to round up. (The other thing? I\u2019m lazy.) Let me take this opportunity to clear my only regret: not alerting the world in 2004 to \u201cJoulu<\/a>\u201d (\u201cYule\u201d), an album by the Finnish jazz vocal group Ragaton<\/a>. That the album is completely in Finnish, including the liner notes, only increases the pleasure of this pure escape from mallbound Christmas. I guarantee the Finnish tunes will become your favorites, but for those who must have the stuffing out of the box, they do mum \u201cJingle Bells,\u201d Mel Torme\u2019s \u201cChristmas Song,\u201d and \u201cSilent Night,\u201d At first you\u2019ll try to sing along, before letting the fleeting Finnish lyrics just flow over you.<\/p>\n

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