As befitting an album released in December, there is a seasonal song at the end of Bish Bosch, the latest work by Scott Walker. Bells jingle all the way. The Day the “Conducator” Died marks Christmas in an unorthodox fashion, however. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, known as the “Conducator”, was executed by firing squad on Christmas Day, 1989. “Nobody waited for ‘fire’,” intones Walker of the marksmen’s enthusiasm. The reindeer bells, it turns out, are a death knell. [Source]
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