Allison Crowe's debut albums in the works

Allison Crowe is creating two debut albums right now. Her singer-songwriter-oriented collection, "secrets", will be released next month.

(PRWEB) April 11, 2004 --Allison Crowe is creating her two debut albums right now - with a hand in engineering, producing, as well as singing, playing piano, guitar, organ, and adding percussive "thumps". Following Peter Jackson's approach to making the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, (on a considerably more modest, Hobbit-sized, scale), a pair of albums will be born of this same production phase.

The first to be completed is a solo, singer-songwriter, recording. It's very simple and true. Titled "secrets", this album contains 'old' fan favourites (some of which are radically redefined), newer songs (including "Whether I'm Wrong", which has been featured by the UNESCO-endorsed New Songs for Peace project @ http://www.newsongsforpeace.org/spotlight-200403.html), and a couple of Allison's personal picks from other artists: Counting Crows' "Raining in Baltimore" ~ the first song Allison performed when she launched her career as a singer-songwriter; and "Joan of Arc", another exemplar of Leonard Cohen's poetic brilliance.

"secrets" will be released next month.

(The second of Allison Crowes two full-length albums, "Alive and Breathing", is a rock album and will be released later in 2004. An unmixed version of that albums title track can be heard @ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/aliveandbreathingcomplete.mp3)

Contributing recently to "It Was 40 Years Ago Today", the Beatles tribute CD featuring Dee Dee Ramone, Sylvain Sylvain, and other punk/DIY
acts (http://www.cafeshops.com/artmonkeynyc.9797756) was a straightforward, fun, way to create music for Allison ~ in a way, getting back to the idea behind the Beatles' "Let It Be: Naked". Today, as we know, a lot of music heard is not about artistry, emotion or soul. Joni Mitchell describes the current approach to making records
as acts/labels who "interior-decorate their music". Observes Joni: "Now, this is all calculated music. It's calculated for sales, it's sonically calculated, it's rudely calculated."

Allison's upcoming releases will put the focus back on the songs, and the singer, as was more the spirit in the '60s and '70s.