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Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! 🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

adrian22 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:18:43 GMT

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! 🍀

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

Adventure in 2024

adrian22 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 07:13:04 GMT

Soundtrack album to “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire” – serves up Allison Crowe’s “Longhouse Dinner” and original music composed for the movie by Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL).

The sci-fi adventure film — co-written and directed by Zack Snyder — is showing now on Netflix.

The film music’s landed on all platforms incl. Allison’s track @ https://open.spotify.com/track/6L8S8SZTkV49g3ht3suPav (Spotify) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBv-X2_27HU (YouTube) and everywhere else in your listening galaxy. 🎶

"Longhouse Dinner": Allison Crowe Serving “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire”

adrian22 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 02:04:18 GMT

Allison Crowe, bi-coastal musical marvel, toured our world for decades – inspiring and thrilling audiences as one of this planet’s greatest live concert performers.

In recent years, Allison’s rock and rolled from stage to studio – and now concentrates her creative energies on film and theatre music composition:

Coming this holiday season is “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire” – ‘Thriller Soundtrack Music’ shares this scoop:

“The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire have been revealed. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) (Mad Max: Fury Road, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Deadpool, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Alita: Battle Angel, Sonic the Hedgehog, Godzilla vs. Kong).

Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire is co-written and directed by Zack Snyder and stars Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Anthony Hopkins, Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Fra Fee, Cleopatra Coleman, Staz Nair, Jena Malone and Corey Stoll. The sci-fi adventure tells the story of a stranger with a mysterious past who – after crash landing on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe – begins a new life among a peaceful settlement of farmers, but soon becomes their only hope for survival.”

*“Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire” premieres on Netflix Thursday, December 21 at 7pm PST

#Rebelmoonnetflix #rebelmoonachildoffiresoundtrack #Rebelmoon2023soundtrack #AllisonCrowe #LonghouseDinner #music

Magic of Allison Crowe

adrian22 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 02:00:06 GMT

A lovin’ spoonful from Allison Crowe to mark her birthday (today, November 16).

"Darling Be Home Soon", a tune penned by John Sebastian, is recorded by Allison and her trio for her album "This Little Bird" (that band interpretation is also found online).

Here it is – live-off-the-floor, solo, in a log-home in the Canadian woods.

https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/track/darling-be-home-soon-sh

"Believe in the magic of a young girl's soul; Believe in the magic of rock and roll; Believe in the magic that can set you free..."

Whether I’m Wrong - Allison Crowe live television

adrian22 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:17:54 GMT

“Whether I’m Wrong”, Allison Crowe’s song for peace, first shared via national television:

The one-hour “Tidings” special’s presented by Producer Doug Slack and the New VI's team "Inside Pandora's Box" (CHUM's street-front studio in Victoria, B.C.).

Allison’s set includes “Whether I’m Wrong” – soon featured by the UNESCO-endorsed “New Songs for Peace” project @ http://www.newsongsforpeace.org/spotlight-200403.html and http://www.newsongsforpeace.org/songs-crowe1.html - and a message and tune that's timeless.

"Whether I'm Wrong" is found on Crowe's album "Secrets" and, a different, live, version is on her double-CD-set "Live at Wood Hall".

Whether I'm Wrong
Words & Music by Allison Crowe

Don't want to raise my head
The world is covered in rage
Voices calling out in anger
Entering erratically into another age

Shadow puppets on the wall
I don't know who to believe
In the darkness standing tall
With a smile upon your face

And I have a right, to
Have a voice, have a say

Whether I'm wrong, or whether I'm right
It doesn't really matter anymore
You've put up a wall
You've put up a fight
And now it seems we've forgotten
What all that was for

Whether you don't want to
Or whether you can't see
What is right in front of your face
Time is running out
And we're already losing ground
With the human race

I don't want to raise my hand
I don't know why I'm scared to say
Feel like I want to call out
Feel like I want to run away

And I don't know why anyone
Should have to suffer anymore
Well, I don't know a whole lot of anything
But I do wonder what all of this is for

And you have a right, too
To have a voice, have a say

Whether I'm wrong
Or whether I'm right
It doesn't really matter anymore
I've put up a wall
You've put up a fight
And now it seems we've forgotten
What all of that was for

Whether you don't want to
Or whether you can't see
What is right in front of your face
Time is running out
And we're already losing ground
With the human race

...

https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com

Crayon and Ink (6 Songs version) – Allison Crowe + Band

adrian22 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:25:39 GMT

Singer-songwriter+ Allison Crowe’s “Crayon and Ink”, an exhilarating venture in the slipstream of consciousness, paired with a visual excerpt from “Destino” – a collaboration launched last century by surrealist Salvador Dali and motion picture + animation pioneer Walt Disney. (This film’s rediscovered in the years since Allison’s creative mash-up.)

This version of “Crayon and Ink”, released on her debut collection, “6 Songs”, features Allison Crowe’s voice and piano, with Dave Baird on bass, and Kevin Clevette, percussion.

The song’s captured live-off-the-floor in Summer 2001 – by Engineer/Producer Larry Anschell at Turtle Recording Studios in White Rock, BC, Canada as the band’s en route to Seattle, WA, USA for the Worldwide (Pearl) Jammer Convergence: https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/track/crayon-and-ink

Allison Crowe August: 2023 Week 1

adrian22 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 06:30:55 GMT

The Monarch butterflies’ migration, the Cliff swallows’ return to Capistrano… such marvels date and delight our own calendars.

And the music of Allison Crowe 🎶 flies once more to the airwaves of CHMR FM Radio – alighting Friday, August 4: “Allison Crowe August” Week 1!

Naturally, DJ Jason Cantwell and his ever-loving sidekick, Blackie, like the Attenboroughs of Audio Amazement, tend this musical celebration via “The Friday Morning Markout” – 8am to 10am NL time @ https://www.chmr.ca/

Tune in each Friday Morning Markout this month for a very happy return! ❤️

NB Should you be flocking to the fun from outside Canada, please note, use of VPN is essential for CHMR listening!

I Don't Know + Phantom scenes

adrian22 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 04:18:18 GMT

“I Don’t Know” – the personal and universal expressed in song by Allison Crowe.

Music captured live by Audio Archivist John MacMillan on Canada’s Denman Island, BC. Then, in “post” as it were, film composer/scorer Kayla Schmah contributes string arrangement and production in Hollywood, USA.

First released on Allison’s album “Spiral” – https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-know – in this creative mashup we encounter as well the original cinematic interpretation of Gaston Leroux’s gothic novel, “The Phantom of the Opera” – visuals from the unrestored version of the 1925 film – now in the public domain – featuring Lon Chaney as ‘The Phantom’.

Allison Crowe Cast in the SnyderVerse

adrian22 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 17:10:50 GMT

Superman’s returned to our cinematic galaxy 10 years ago from Krypton and beyond!

Lifted up, up and away along with all on this epic journey, musician/actor+ Allison Crowe flew from Newfoundland to film her scene in British Columbia’s historic (now legendary) Cassidy Inn.

At that time, “Man of Steel” Clark Kent – embodied by Henry Cavill – is bussing tables in the Cassidy, just minutes down the road from where Allison’s born.

Herein, Hollywood film director/auteur+ Zack Snyder tells this origin story + a bonus behind-the-scenes look at bar-room antagonist “Ludlow” – in the form of actor Ian Tracey – getting his “comeuppance”:

There Is – Allison Crowe + Band Man of Steel Mashup

adrian22 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 04:00:42 GMT

We celebrate the 10^th anniversary of Superman’s cinematic relaunch via “Man of Steel”, much-loved blockbuster in the Snyderverse, with this musical justice league: Allison Crowe – vocals, piano, engineer, producer; Del Crowe – guitar; Dave Baird – bass; & Laurent Boucher – percussion.

Superman – Clark Kent, a joint creation of great friends, Toronto, Canada-born illustrator Joe Shuster and American writer Jerry Siegel (born in Cleveland, Ohio), entered our public universe in 1938 – via Action Comics #1.

The mythic character, able to leap a tall building in a single bound, first took flight in fabulous,1940s cartoons made by brothers Max Fleischer, animator and director, and Dave Fleischer, producer.

The brothers' Fleischer Studios produced nine Superman classics - animated shorts - in 1941- 42. (Over the following couple of years, also for Paramount Pictures, another eight episodes were made for – these by Famous Studios. All 17 Superman cartoons are now in the public domain.)

For this mash-up Allison Crowe's "There Is" provides the soundtrack to an excerpt from "The Mechanical Monsters" (one of the earliest of Superman's animated adventures - released November 28, 1941).

The Man of Steel mythos brightens our world still today. Brought to life on the big screen as a science fiction spectacular in Summer 2013, Krypton and the Earth of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Perry White and all denizens includes musician Allison Crowe - as the "Singer in Cassidy's", a road-house in the great North woods where Henry Cavill as Clark is employed before taking on the mantle of Superman.

The Cassidy Inn’s an actual, historic, bar/hotel on a stretch of highway on Vancouver Island, Canada about 10 minutes drive south of where Allison was born. Originally, and for decades, it was home to miners in this coal-rich area. More recently it became a rough-and-ready “biker bar” before Hollywood set the scene with its epic, modern, production (brought to you by DC Entertainment, Syncopy Films, Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.) The Cassidy mysteriously went down, down, down, in a ring of fire – and today remains home to celluloid heroes.

For Allison, this opportunity to work with Director Zack Snyder, Producer Deborah Snyder and the entire, truly stellar, production+ team, cast and crew of "Man of Steel" proved more amazing and fun than imaginable. It forever rocks our daily planet.

Viva "Army of the Dead"

adrian22 — Wed, 19 May 2021 03:14:00 GMT

New poster for “Army of the Dead”. The Zack Snyder-helmed zombie heist film begins with “a deliciously inspired 15-minute no-holds barred opening-credits sequence” that features Liberace tribute showman David Maiocco counting in a remarkable duet:

“Richard Cheese and Allison Crowe covering ‘Viva Las Vegas’ going from comical/parody to straightforward cover to a soulful and melancholic ode to the decay of humanity… good s**t”, says Chicago poet/writer+ Stefano de la Cuesta.

#ArmyOfTheDead opens globally on Netflix this Friday, May 21. Rated R.

Allison Crowe joins "Zack Snyder's Justice League" #ForAutumn

adrian22 — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:09:44 GMT

I am so honoured and humbled to be a part of this, and to call this beautiful, loving, giant family my friends.

“The director is also layering in some deeply personal elements. The movie closes with Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” performed by Allison Crowe, a friend who also sang it at Autumn’s funeral. It was Autumn’s favorite song. Now it’s an elegy to her. Justice League, however anyone else feels about it, is made of the things—and people—Snyder loves, too. “When you think about the catharsis of it, if I was a potter, I would’ve made some pottery to look for some way through this,” he says. “But I’m a filmmaker, so you get this giant movie.” He wants people to love it. If some don’t? He’s all right with that, with all of it. Whatever comes, he’s okay.” #ForAutumn

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/the-true-story-of-justice-league-snyder-cut

ACTION HERO Zack Snyder shoots a scene with Jason Momoa on the set of Justice League.BY CLAY ENOS.

“Pillars” + “Six More Songs”. Two sister albums. Seventeen singles. Allison Crowe and Band.

adrian22 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 23:37:14 GMT

Thrilling folk/roots, classic rock/pop, traditional NL tunes, original wildness and more with Allison Crowe and Band:

Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, cello, guitar, fiddle, Seaboard and more);

Sarah Melanie White (mandolin, bouzouki, vocals+);

Dave Baird (bass); &

Keelan Purchase (accordion, guitar, harmonica, vocals).

Allison Crowe: Composer & Co-Producer

Adam Thistle: Recording/Mixing Engineer & Co-Producer

Billie Woods Photography

Mind Palace Design

Visit https://allisoncroweband.com + https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/ for more:

PILLARS

https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/album/pillars – Bandcamp

https://music.apple.com/us/album/pillars/1510665613 – iTunes / Apple Music

https://open.spotify.com/album/7ycF0Tea3cL22tFYWwpYb2 – Spotify

1) Verses / Morrison’s Jig (Allison Crowe / Trad)

2) Wildflowers (Dolly Parton)

3) All Your Favorite Bands feat. Sarah White (Taylor Goldsmith / Jonathan Fritz)

4) At Seventeen (Janis Ian)

5) But, Still (Allison Crowe)

6) Hours (Allison Crowe)

7) Hopeless (Allison Crowe)

8) Julianna (Allison Crowe)

9) Pillars (Allison Crowe)

10) (Through These) Heavy Graces (Allison Crowe)

11) Black Velvet Waltz / Linkers’ Lament / The Merry Blacksmith (Trad / Allison Crowe / Trad)

SIX MORE SONGS

https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/album/six-more-songs – Bandcamp

https://music.apple.com/us/album/six-more-songs-ep/1510726355 – iTunes / Apple Music

https://open.spotify.com/album/2aSlWoz1TEO78HLUdMLKbs – Spotify

1) Arthur (Allison Crowe)

2) You All Haunt Me (Allison Crowe)

3) Silence (Allison Crowe)

4) Happy People (Allison Crowe)

5) Spiral (Allison Crowe)

6) Going Home Tonight (Allison Crowe)

Sláinte!

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For the love of music

adrian22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 23:45:10 GMT

For the love of music, starting today all hearts open at the new web-home of Allison Crowe and bandmates Sarah White, Keelan Purchase & Dave Baird: https://allisoncroweband.com

For 20 amazing years Allison’s original site, designed by Alix (Whitmire) May @ http://allisoncrowe.com, serves as entry point for a community, millions of people all over the globe, to enjoy the music and history of one of our world’s great artists and bands. Thank you for your kind support & loyalty throughout the years!

With a growing family of musicians, and plenty more recordings and fun ahead, it’s come time for a new chapter online. Céline Sawchuk, (graphic artist + the combo’s former cellist), composes a new portal – for all to share and enjoy the sounds and happenings of Allison, Sarah, Keelan & Dave.

On this road less-traveled, we’ve the pleasure to meet fab photographers, from west to east. The characterful images of Billie Woods and Alick Tsui are prominent among those enlivening the new site.

Welcome! Explore! Enjoy!

Suite: I Might / Back to Black / Shifts of Light / I Am the Air / Lisa's Song – Allison Crowe + Band

adrian22 — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:57:27 GMT

Kiss the joy as it flies with the release this month of two new albums of music in concert – “Welcome to Us” Acts 1 and 2 – from Allison Crowe and Band (on Rubenesque Records Ltd.).

Here, now, is a suite of songs opening W2U2. Film montage à “Ménilmontant” – a cinematic masterpiece from France, 1926:

“I Might” features Céline Sawchuk on vocals. Allison Crowe sings lead on the suite’s next four vocal tunes: “Back to Black”, “Shifts of Light”, “I Am the Air” and “Lisa’s Song”. Creating the albums’ 22+ song tracks be: Allison (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle, bodhran), Céline (cello, vocals), Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Dave Baird (bass, vocals) & Keelan Purchase (accordion, 12-string guitar, bodhran, harmonica, vocals) – banded together on the lovely isle of Newfoundland for sessions and shows.

For a flock of creators who live, literally, all over the map it’s a rare chance to slow the world a bit. “We had time to experiment, and think more about the larger picture musically,” says bassist & birder Dave. “It’s only the beginning. It’s just the first we’ve had opportunity to work the music out without much time restraint. It was fun, relaxed, and productive.”

Melding into one sound and performance experience the rawest of folk roots and the richest of arena rock – that barely begins to describe the originality and freshness of the quintet’s music and personality.

Debuting at Corner Brook, NL’s Rotary Arts Centre, RAC Theatre Co-ordinator Brad Randell observes, “The performance was absolutely magical.”

Rolling across the rock, captured fresh at the LSPU (Longshoremen's Protective Union) Hall in St. John's, NL, Canada – it’s music that’s food for the soul and fun for all.

Fortune’s present audio-wise, and Allison’s SD (memory) card is filled with tracks to be mined and enjoyed. Sláinte!

"Welcome to Us 1", the concert’s first act, presents the brilliant bi-coastal band's more guitar-and-fiddle-centric tunes – live: http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-1

"Welcome to Us 2", the concert's second act, features the group's more guitar-and-fiddle-centric tunes: http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-2

"Welcome to Us Banter Bits" includes any chat, laughter, applause not found on the "Welcome to Us" albums on iTunes et al. A free download to complement the concert music: http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-banter-bits

Circular Reasoning

adrian22 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 03:37:34 GMT

There's a wonderland of new music coming this month from Allison Crowe and Band. Before it all hatches, today's bunny trail leads to an Easter egg from years past – "Circular Reasoning" through the looking glass.

Gerald Thomas' Burnt Potato – Allison Crowe and Band W2U1

adrian22 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 03:35:00 GMT

Tatties, patates, kartoffel… whatever you call ’em – communicating in an universal language is the potato (even tho’ they speak to us only with thine eyes).

“Gerald Thomas’ Burnt Potato (Les Patates Brûlées à Gerald Thomas)” is composed by the late, great, fiddler, Émile Benoit, who’s born in Black Duck Brook, Dominion of Newfoundland. The title alludes to a stove-top incident involving Benoit’s friend and fellow musician, Memorial University of Newfoundland Professor of Folklore, Dr. Gerald Thomas.

Maestro chef on the tune here is accordionist+ Keelan Purchase and it’s an appetizer for the fun to come when Allison Crowe and Band’s “Welcome to Us” Acts 1 and 2 are served-up worldwide. April 3, 2018 is “official” release date for W2U1 and W2U2. The music’s served hot whenever Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify and all get cooking.

Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle, bodhran), Céline Sawchuk (cello, vocals), Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Dave Baird (bass, vocals), and Keelan Purchase (accordion, 12-string guitar, bodhran, harmonica & vocals) meld the rawest of folk roots and the richest of arena rock.

Captured fresh at the LSPU (Longshoremen's Protective Union) Hall in St. John's, NL, Canada – it’s music that’s food for the soul and fun for all.

For our video wrapper here – hearty thanks to Alick Tsui Photography and Mind Palace Design.

Hours - Allison Crowe and Band - Welcome to Us

adrian22 — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:48:43 GMT

2018 will see the release of Allison Crowe’s “Fluttering”, an illuminating book of poetry/prose, and Allison and band will unite on one continent or another to advance the exciting sounds of “Rare Birds”, their next studio album.

First to hatch, though, is “Welcome to Us” – a sensational and fun album of music captured live at the LSPU (Longshoremen's Protective Union) Hall in St. John's, NL, Canada. Here’s a preview from Act 1 (the guitar-based songs – piano-centric songs comprise the second act). Enjoy!

http://music.allisoncrowe.com

Meet the Band

adrian22 — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:15:14 GMT

Musicians Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle, bodhran), Céline Sawchuk (cello, vocals), Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Dave Baird (bass, vocals) & Keelan Purchase (accordion, 12-string guitar, bodhran, harmonica, vocals) recently banded together on the lovely isle of Newfoundland for sessions and shows.

For a flock of creators who live, literally, all over the map it’s a rare chance to slow the world a bit. “We had time to experiment, and think more about the larger picture musically,” says bassist & birder Dave. “It’s only the beginning. It’s just the first we’ve had opportunity to work the music out without much time restraint. It was fun, relaxed, and productive.”

Melding into one sound and performance experience the rawest of folk roots and the richest of arena rock – that barely begins to describe the originality and freshness of the quintet’s music and personality.

Debuting at Corner Brook, NL’s Rotary Arts Centre, RAC Theatre Co-ordinator Brad Randell observes, “The performance was absolutely magical.”

Rolling across the rock to St. John’s and a concert night at LSPU Hall, magic’s afoot once more with Allison Crowe and Band – and, this time, serendipitously, artifacts remain to be shared in addition to golden memories of artists and audience+.

Alick Tsui, the truly remarkable SJ-based photographer, was able to attend Act 1 (the band’s NL concerts formed around one set in which Allison played guitar or fiddle, and, post-intermission, a second set of songs founded on Allison’s piano tunes) – and Alick captured some iconic images of Allison, Céline, Sarah, Dave & Keelan.

Fortune’s present audio-wise, and Allison’s SD (memory) card is filled with tracks to be mined. First, let’s meet the band on-stage :)

Happy Birthday, dear Joni!

adrian22 — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:33:13 GMT

Happy Birthday to a child who’s moved 74 times ’round the seasons, skated o’er plenty clear frozen streams – and, as she’s circled, given us music of profound truth and beauty. Joni Mitchell, the great artist born on this date in Fort Macleod, Alberta – salut!

From Joni’s “Blue” album – in tribute, compatriot Allison Crowe with “River”:

"Whether I'm Wrong"

adrian22 — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 04:35:00 GMT

Allison Crowe with her first song and performance she posted online - "Whether I'm Wrong" –

"Heirs+Grievances" Full Riches

adrian22 — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 02:27:14 GMT

“Heirs+Grievances”, already a glorious album of music from Allison Crowe and Band, is now an even fuller experience. Two song tracks are restored to the original release: a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No.2” and a live-in-the-studio take of “Secrets (That Aren’t My Own)” – a signature of Crowe’s repertoire.

As concert versions of both songs are heard on “Introducing”, the live-CD element of the double-album, these tracks were dropped from last year’s physical pressing. Now, they’re reunited with the other tracks captured at Turtle Recording. A work of “artistic genius”, as “The Celtic Music Fan” describes the album, is now ever-more brilliant.

"Hold Back" + "Effortless" Ciné

adrian22 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:14:12 GMT

“Cinema changed him and he changed cinema,” Agnès Varda, the great Ixelles (Brussels)-born French photographer and film director, says of cultural confrère, French-Swiss director/screenwriter/critic, Jean-Luc Godard.

JLG’s short “Une femme coquette” is filmed in Geneva with credits to Hans Lucas (a nom de guerre the ground-breaking iconoclast used also for writings in ‘Cahier du Cinéma’). It’s rarely exhibited and seen until its recent sharing online with the world by Australian cinéaste and critic Dave Hesler. (Gracias, Nina, for flagging the original now available in full via YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzpFi0uBmzs and elsewhere.)

This early (1955) creation of Godard, as excerpted here, finds its images meeting new sound – from Canadian musician Allison Crowe. “Hold Back” is recorded by Crowe herself at home in Corner Brook, NL. The ciné song’s lyricism reveals “an heart of mystery and some fears faced”.

“Effortless” is recorded by Ryan Adams in a log-home of Crowe’s friends on Salt Spring Island, BC. “Trying not to try so hard” is the puzzle.

"Secrets" of Mona Lisa

adrian22 — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 07:36:52 GMT

“There is hope,” writes musician Allison Crowe. “That word keeps coming up. It makes me think that maybe it’s real. It is resilient. You can try to leave it out but it keeps putting itself back in place. You can try to deny it but it won’t stay buried.”

Crowe’s writing her first book, “Fluttering” about which she says: “There's a few paragraphs that are just sort of thinking out loud but, for the most part, there's either poems, prose, thought pieces, or stream of consciousness.”

She’s composing, as well, for her next album – the artist's 22nd on Rubenesque Records' label. “Rare Birds” brings together again her brilliant bi-coastal band for concerts and recordings.

Right now, here’s one of music’s great voices and one of rock’s great songs – “Secrets (That Aren’t My Own)” – a previously-unreleased version from Allison Crowe and Band’s “Heirs+Grievances” sessions.

"Great Island Wonder"

adrian22 — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:35:57 GMT

For the love of music, for the love of all life, this February 14, whether you celebrate Valentine’s or V-Day, or however, simply, you mark another day of existence – there’ll be a special soundtrack coming from Allison Crowe.

A rare batch of “Great Island Wonder”, (named, also, for the love of bootlegs), is 18 song performances straight from the heart – and banter galore – captured by audio archivist John MacMillan in concert on Canada’s Denman Island a dozen years ago. This show, hosted by Denman’s Mélanie Bilodeau, offers a repast – an edible, audible, document of the artist’s solo repertoire at one delectable moment in time.

Album art was originally anticipated to be wholly cartographic in nature – however, with such an Hipgnotic foto now facing us, the song+ info will be mapped out solely on GIW’s back cover to be released with the music on 14.02.2017.

Album cover foto: Allison Crowe