On the road to creating a new album, musician/singer-songwriter Allison Crowe teams up with a longtime friend in orchestrator, arranger and producer Kayla Schmah.Crowe, at home in, both, Nanaimo, British Columbia and Corner Brook, Newfoundland, (on Canada's Pacific and Atlantic coasts), and L.A.-based film composer Schmah first met, a decade ago, on Salt Spring Island, BC (where, it happens, th...
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The process of readying for new recording sessions, as Allison Crowe and fellow musicians gather at various locations on Canada's Pacific coast, has unearthed some live recordings from Allison's earlier rock bands. As a teenager in the '90s, living in Canada's Pacific Northwest, Allison Crowe gravitated toward the Seattle bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam - along with such other favourite North American...
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For those of us living in the northern hemisphere, Summer is nearing its end - and Autumn/Fall starts to reveal itself.For me, it's a season of musical revelation.Allison has started to create her next album. She travels from Canada's Atlantic coast to the Pacific in about two weeks' time to record her fellow musicians - Billie Woods, on acoustic guitar; Dave Baird on electric and acoustic bas...
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Allison Crowe and her traveling band - Billie Woods (guitar), Dave Baird (bass) and Laurent Boucher (percussion) - are back in Canada following a triumphant tour of continental Europe.Playing to full-houses and multiple encores in Aachen, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague and Vienna was especially gratifying for the troupe - after a start in the UK that could have derailed less able and determ...
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It's been a few years since Nick Hornby, in a New York Times op-ed piece, "Rock of Ages", spoke of "that high-low fork in the road" asking: "Who has the nerve to pick up where Dickens or John Ford left off? ...who wants to make art that is committed and authentic and intelligent, but that sets out to include, rather than exclude?"An answer is Allison Crowe, creator of such recordings as "Diseas...
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On the road to creating a new album, musician/singer-songwriter Allison Crowe teams up with a longtime friend in orchestrator, arranger and producer Kayla Schmah.Crowe, at home in, both, Nanaimo, British Columbia and Corner Brook, Newfoundland, (on Canada's Pacific and Atlantic coasts), and L.A.-based film composer Schmah first met, a decade ago, on Salt Spring Island, BC (where, it happens, th...
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As this new year launches on a range of calendars, Canada's Allison Crowe finds herself one of the most popular performers in the world of what is one of the world's most popular songs.It's a good start.Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", with a final push from the giant 'Pop Idol' franchise, has been delivered into a maelstrom that swirls together the song's mainstream resonance with its cabaret and cu
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The process of readying for new recording sessions, as Allison Crowe and fellow musicians gather at various locations on Canada's Pacific coast, has unearthed some live recordings from Allison's earlier rock bands. As a teenager in the '90s, living in Canada's Pacific Northwest, Allison Crowe gravitated toward the Seattle bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam - along with such other favourite North American...
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Canada's bicoastal musical marvel Allison Crowe is among those invited by MOJO magazine to celebrate Leonard Cohen, master of song, on a soon-to-be-released tribute CD. Crowe contributes her cover of "Joan of Arc" - a favourite first heard on the 1971 Cohen album "Songs of Love and Hate". It's been a wonderful year for appreciation of poet and songwriter+ Leonard Cohen - highlighted by all the ...
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A song in the key of Hallowe'en, a favourite holiday for musician Allison Crowe. Playing piano since age five and singing, almost as long, Crowe, inspired by Ani DiFranco and Loreena McKennitt, materialized her own record label in 2003. She's now brewing her seventh album/CD, "Spiral". You could say Crowe is very ghoul-oriented."Allison Chains" (voice, piano) is linked to this track for eternit...
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| 2 Skeletons and Spirits |
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| 3 A Case of You |
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| 4 Alive and Breathing |
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| 5 There Is |
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