How to Mail Order direct from Rubenesque Records - Allison Crowe's own label:
Simply click here to access an order form. Fill it out this form (click here), or write on a piece of paper which music CD(s) or poster you want - descriptions of each are found below. Next, please send your request letter together with the currency amount listed for such item(s) in the form of a Postal Money Order or Bank Draft - payable to: either, Allison Crowe, or, to Rubenesque Records Ltd. Please ensure that any money orders are negotiable in Canada. (Some post office-issued money orders, for example, are only negotiable in the country of issuance.) Prices include ALL postage and handling costs
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Kindly mail your order form (click here) + payment (made out to Allison Crowe or Rubenesque Records) to:
Adrian du PlessisAllison Crowe Music
Box 227, Ganges P.O.
Salt Spring Island, B.C.
CANADA V8K 2V9
PLEASE DO NOT send cash or personal checks in the mail. Thank you, merci, danke, grazie!
(Remember to make any money order or bank draft payable to, either, Allison Crowe, or, to, Rubenesque Records Ltd.)
Here, below, is the selection of music and art you can order by mail:
Spiral
contains eight of Allison Crowe’s original songs, ranging from the tender
and playful country/roots of “Dearly”, to the upbeat pop
of “Double-Edged Swords”, ’cross the loving “Oceans”,
and darker terrain of “I Don’t Know” and the hard rocking
title track. Raw, natural, emotion is embraced passionately with
elegiac beauty and melody in these, and such joy-filled tunes as “Going
Home Tonight” and “No Matter the Battle”. With the
live track, “Wake Up”, Crowe, again, renders the personal
universal, and the global, human.
Uniquely known not just as one of the most exciting songwriters of
a new generation, Crowe is also one of our finest interpreters of
popular song. Spiral’s mix of light and shadow includes a
trio of fresh covers – revisiting music of Annie Lennox (“Why”),
Leonard Cohen (“Chelsea Hotel No. 2”), and Hunters and
Collectors’ Antipodean anthem, “Throw Your Arms Around Me”.
On this new song collection, the bi-coastal Canadian, (she calls
Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Nanaimo, British Columbia, home), is
joined by ideally-skilled and sympathetic west-coast musicians
Billie Rocha-Woods (acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Dave Baird
(bass, backing vocals), Laurent Boucher (percussion), Brendan
Millbank (cello) and Larry Anschell
(electric guitar, and, also, Engineer/Producer at Turtle Studios in
White Rock, B.C.)
Kayla Schmah, Los Angeles-based, Canadian-born, composer and film
scorer, orchestrates and produces the album with, yes, "gorgeous"
musical textures, and cinematic ideas artfully brought to life.
Concert capturings by Engineers B.R.N. (aka Condor) and John
MacMillan complete this diverse mix of music made in Corner Brook,
Nanaimo, as well as Chilliwack, White Rock, Denman Island and Salt
Spring Island, Canada, Vienna, Austria, and Hollywood, USA.
The visual art of Spiral matches its aural beauty - with
cover paintings by Netherlands-based Tara Thelen, photographs by
Canada's Billie Rocha-Woods, and California's Dan Goldwasser,
fontage from Brazil’s Billy Argel and graphic design by Florida's
Alix Whitmire.
Allison Crowe's newest album, Spiral ****REVIEWS****
$14.98 CDN (includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album
Little
Light is a popular singer-songwriter collection from Allison
Crowe. It opens with a rustically shimmering version of "Northern
Lights" - a song Allison performed 'specially for the John
Lennon Northern Lights Festival in Durness, Scotland. "Angels"
is recorded live at St. Andrew's United Church, Christmas-time, in
Allison's birthplace, Nanaimo, Canada. She's backed here by bassist
Dave Baird and percussionist Laurent Boucher. "Disease", a
song of social commentary, has, through years of live performance,
become epic - channeling Beethoven, grunge and more. Here 't'is captured in its
raging glory by Larry Anschell (on International Women's Day 2008,
the same night celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Engineer and
Producer Anschell's Turtle
Recording Studios - this live track co-engineered by Brad Graham). Title
track "Little Light" is among a set of guitar songs
that reveal a different sort of Allison Crowe's writerly reflections
in music. "Happy People", like such earlier songs
as Crowe's own, "Skeletons and Spirits", a bright
melody coats more acid observations. Strong and gentle poetics of
"Hold Back" warm us by a fire kindled in the '70s
by Joni Mitchell. "Choose to Be" bridges the piano
sound of Allison's "This Little Bird" songs with
her new tunes. Bob Dylan's ramblin' shoes lead to a less restless
farewell, as the album closes with "Wedding Song" -
Crowe's sweetest, rootsiest, love song to date.
The interpretations on this collection are: "Time After Time" - originally a hit for that most unusual girl, Cyndi Lauper - Allison, a child of the '80s gives her impassioned take, live (Scott LittleJohn recording this, the same night as "Angels"); "Running for Home", is a cover of the Matthew Good Band, and one of the songs Allison has performed since her teens; and, by way of the Righteous Babe, Ani DiFranco, comes Allison's vocal-guitar nod to the great peace-loving bard, Phil Ochs - "When I'm Gone". "Can't be singing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here."
Allison Crowe's popular Little Light ****REVIEWS****
$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album
This
Little Bird contains everything to love about
the music of Allison Crowe. Adding titles of engineer and producer
to her vocal, piano and guitar credits, Crowe is joined on most of
the album's tracks by an ideal rhythm section ~ Dave Baird (bass)
and Laurent Boucher (percussion). Nine new originals map emotional
and spiritual territory with fresh sounds, encompassing: the elegiac
"Phoenix"; the ramble tamble "Alive and
Breathing"; gorgeous songs of love and hope, "Effortless"
and "There Is"; the jaunty dark humor of "Skeletons
and Spirits"; the redemptive grace of "Now";
the raucous celebration of the title track; a joy of simplicity in
"Circular Reasoning"; and "Silence",
a song that stirs with gypsy romance.
Acclaimed not only as an exciting songwriter and live performer,
but, also, as a supreme song interpreter, for her freshly definitive
takes, Allison Crowe delivers a trio of remarkable covers on "This
Little Bird" - giving her singular voice to "A Case
of You" (Joni Mitchell's knowing paen to heart and
homeland), "Darling Be Home Soon" (John Sebastian's
lovin' spoonful of longing) and "I Never Loved A Man (The
Way I Love You)" (Ronnie Shannon's soulful song best-known
as Aretha Franklin's break-out tune in 1967).
Allison Crowe's soaring album, This Little Bird ****REVIEWS****
$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album
Live
at Wood Hall is an exciting journey through
Allison Crowe's concert repertoire, recorded with a simple clarity
in the converted chapel of Victoria (B.C.)'s Conservatory of Music.
Alongside more than an album's worth of original songs of love and
hope to social and political commentary, Allison covers cherished
favourites - including Ani DiFranco ("Independence Day"),
Counting Crows ("A Murder of One"), Tori Amos
("Playboy Mommy"), Janis Joplin ("Me and
Bobby McGee"), and John Lennon ("Imagine").
Colours in the artist's musical palette range from roots &
blues, through folk, pop/rock, jazz and Broadway. There's even a
tradtional Irish aire, "Believe Me If All (Those Endearing
Young Charms)", sung acapella. Once again, Larry Anschell
(Turtle Studios) captures the music on tape and Alix Whitmire
designs the beautiful artwork/CD cover. " 'Music, man, that's
where it's at'/ it is a religious line/ outside, the chimes rung/ an
they/ are still ringin." ****REVIEWS****
$17.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical Double-Album (2 CD set)
"Music for the season and all time"
Tidings brings together traditional carols, and not-so-traditional songs, all interpreted, even redefined, through the vocal and piano artistry of Allison Crowe. It's a much-loved collection tagged "the Yule-tide find of the year" by one music critic. "Her voice celebrates the music with a bluesy rock-gospel intensity; her controlled vibrato, silken rasp, and powerful projection rivet your attention. This is no casual background music... be prepared to be amazed," says another reviewer. Tidings is popular year-round - not just during the Christmas season when it's a natural. The album's songs are recorded, live-off-the-floor, on Winter's eve in Canada by Engineer & Producer Larry Anschell, (Pearl Jam, Sarah McLachlan, k-os), who captures the magic at his Turtle Recording studio by the shore in White Rock, British Columbia.
Tidings' track-listing: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Traditional); River (Joni Mitchell); Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen); Silent Night (Traditional); In the Bleak Midwinter (Traditional); What Child Is This - Greensleeves (Traditional); Let It Be (The Beatles); The First Noel (Traditional); In My Life (The Beatles); O Holy Night (Traditional); Shine a Light (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards); Angel (Sarah McLachlan). ****REVIEWS****
Peace on Earth ~ goodwill toward all.
$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album
Secrets
Allison Crowe recorded this solo, singer-songwriter, album in 2004.
First setting up a home studio, Allison engineered and assisted with
production (alongside Rainer Willeke of Canadian r'n'b combo, Soul
Station). Allison performs all vocals (lead and harmonies),
plays piano, guitar, keyboards and added percussive 'thumps' to the
collection. Secrets contains a mix of tunes from Allison's
"band days" (some of which are radically redefined),
freshly-penned songs, and a couple of choice picks from other
artists: Counting
Crows' brooding "Raining in Baltimore" ~ the
first song Allison performed when she launched her career as a
singer-songwriter; and "Joan of Arc", a shining
exemplar of Leonard
Cohen's poetic brilliance. Guest artists contributing to Secrets
are: Del Crowe (guitar); Jo Lundstrom (accordion); Eric
Reiswig (Uilleann pipes); and Rainer Willeke (tambourine).
****REVIEWS****
$14.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/Album
Lisa's
Song+ 6 Songs The first track on this disc was
recorded live-off-the-floor, in April 2003, by Rick Erickson of Seacoast
Sound in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The six songs that
follow "Lisa's Song" were recorded
live-off-the-floor one afternoon on analog tape by Engineer and
Producer Larry Anschell (Pearl Jam, Sarah McLachlan, Soundgarden+),
at his Turtle Studios in White Rock, B.C. Allison Crowe and
bandmates, Dave Baird (bass), Kevin Clevette (drums), stopped into
Turtle while on their way to perform in Seattle, Washington, USA for
"Jammers" - fans of Pearl Jam converging from all across
America and the world. The essential truth of the trio's July 2001
session is captured in these live, raw, grooves. ****REVIEWS****
Please visit Lisa's Page to learn about Lisa Marie Young, the inspiration for the title song.
$9.98 CDN (price includes Shipping & Handling) - physical CD/EP
Rock poster designed by legendary graphic artist Bob Masse. Visit Bob's website and check out all his beautiful posters spanning the '60s to now ~ of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Tori Amos and more.
This Allison Crowe concert poster, in vibrant, modern psychedelic hues, is 13.5" X 22.5".
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