The mystery I go on about below has been solved. Their 2021 album, just released, reveals all. I was wrong, as usual, about just about everything and will update this review when time allows. Learn the very interesting real story HERE
When I stumbled on three swinging albums under the band name the Christmas Reapers I at first assumed they were somehow related to the popular French swing outfit known as The Carolina Reapers. Nope. As far as I can tell the name is reference to a sort of pet created on the Roblox game Mining Simulator. The albums are actually out of Tuscany, Italy.
Vocalists are listed in the titles of some tracks, but investigating them didn't reveal much more and no other artists are named. Some have established careers of various kinds but nothing directly ties them together aside from these three Christmas albums, released in 2017, 2019, and 2020. Several of the names repeat across those four holiday seasons.
These albums are certainly compilations with a whole artistic community stepping up to make them in small groups on each track. A comment on the Bandcamp page for the first album, titled "Swinging Christmas", suggests a charity purpose, but try as I might I could find no reference to these records off of their very spartan Bandcamp page. I attempted to contact them through Bandcamp, but wasn't surprised when I didn't recieve a reply. It has been a
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