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Dry Grass and Shadows | Alela Diane | 3:11 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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White As Diamonds | Alela Diane | 3:36 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Age Old Blue | Alela Diane | 3:59 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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To Be Still | Alela Diane | 5:26 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Take Us Back | Alela Diane | 4:43 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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The Elder Trees | Alela Diane | 3:27 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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My Brambles | Alela Diane | 4:58 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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The Ocean | Alela Diane | 3:42 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Every Path | Alela Diane | 4:12 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Tatted Lace | Alela Diane | 4:47 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Lady Divine | Alela Diane | 5:12 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
| BookletDigital Booklet - To Be Still (iTunes Exclusive) | Alela Diane | -- | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Items |
iTunes Review
Alela Diane grew up in rural Northern California (in the same town as pal Joanna Newsom), surrounded by nature and her parents’ fondness for folk and bluegrass. With a voice as haunting as Cat Power, and as weightless and airy as Hope Sandoval, Diane’s music can be fragile and bracing at the same time. Pedal steel guitars and mournful hillbilly tones on tracks like “Dry Grass & Shadows” or “Age Old Blue” (where Michael Hurley joins Diane on vocals) are as luminous and tranquil as are her softer trills and the sparkling mandolins and 12-strings on tracks like “To Be Still” and “The Ocean”. It’s easy to hear her admiration for the great Sandy Denny on tunes like “Every Path” and “Lady Divine”, where her beautiful voice shows the same kind of confidence and genteel brawniness as Denny’s. Alela Diane recently became part of the Portland, OR music scene, and in 2009 lent her vocals to the Headless Heroes project, a collection of cover songs by artists as varied as Vashti Bunyan and Spaceman 3.
Customer Reviews
Sublime Beauty
Alela Diane Menig dedicates her second album to "the pines, the river and the ocean deep", all of which played a part in making this songwriter from rural northern California the moving artist she is. Her debut, The Pirate's Gospel - voted best album of 2007 by the Rough Trade chain - introduced her world of isolated hamlets and forests at dusk, and To Be Still expands on it with the vivid addition of mandolin, cello and banjo. Nearly every song is informed by nature: from the snow that creates "such a stillness, calm as the owl glides" on White As Diamonds to the woodland copse where "wind blows the tiny green helicopter seeds" in The Alder Trees. To this is added a homespun voice that recalls Beth Orton and Kristin Hersh, yet is creakily, plaintively Menig's own. The result: something greater than the sum of its parts, and one of this year's lovelier albums.
True Talent
I first heard Alela Diane on Guy Garvey bbc6 music show... almost every week he would play a song from The Pirates Gospel album-which i feel in love with. i've had this album since monday and i must say i adore it already..at first i was worried about the difference in direction as this record has a kind of country feel to it.. but its so gorgeous.. she is so talented and what a voice!! this is my first review in 3 years of buying from itunes!
Buy it!!
I'm a big fan of Alela. Her first album is on of my all time best. This album contains more traditional sounding folk songs. Which i'm not into as much. But after a few listens it really grew on me. It's good. Not as good as her first one but I'd recommend this.
Biography
Born: 1983 in Nevada City, CA
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Years Active: '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Alela Diane
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The Rifle | The Pirate's Gospel (Bonus Track Version) | 2:42 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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The Pirate's Gospel | The Pirate's Gospel (Bonus Track Version) | 2:55 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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White As Diamonds | To Be Still | 3:36 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Oh! My Mama | The Pirate's Gospel (Bonus Track Version) | 3:14 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Tired Feet | The Pirate's Gospel (Bonus Track Version) | 2:41 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Can You Blame the Sky? | The Pirate's Gospel (Bonus Track Version) | 2:28 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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To Be Still | To Be Still | 5:26 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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The Pirate's Gospel | The Pirate's Gospel - Single | 2:55 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Pieces of String | The Pirate's Gospel (Bonus Track Version) | 2:51 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Dry Grass and Shadows | Family Album | 3:49 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
- £7.99
- Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Music, Alternative, Indie Rock, Alternative Folk
- Released: 13 February 2009
- ℗ 2009 Names Records
