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Colleen
Allen's debut
self-titled album is
now available online!
Produced
by Colleen Allen
Released
by Timely Manor
distributed by Fontana/Universal
featuring Gordon Sheard on piano
ORDER at CDBABY.COM
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"The
material recorded on this CD is a collection of songs I've
gathered like beautiful stones, picked up on my travels through
the world. I've put them in my pocket, rolled them around,
rubbed them from time to time, and imagined when these songs
would coalesce in a recording project. Here they are. My treasure
box.
My offering to you."
~ Colleen |
Track
Listing |
1. Long Distance (8:49) listen!
2. Ruwenzori (7:55)
3. Coronation Street (6:12) listen!
(featuring Marc Jordan)
4. I Could Have Danced
All Night (6:57)
5. Dawn Song (7:46)
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6. Lament (8:13)
7. Slanty Planty (6:30)
8. Ninety Nine Binder Twine (5:17)
9. Chase 'n Me (6:00) |
Press
The Toronto Star Feb 2007
COLLEEN ALLEN
Colleen Allen (Timely Manor)
Words like beautiful and lovely aren't mainstays in a critic's vocabulary, but they keep forcing their way to the front of consciousness in multi-instrumentalist Colleen Allen's self-titled debut CD as a leader. The nine ballad-heavy tunes are almost all at medium pace or less, but they're well chosen and delightfully executed – and all but one are by Canadian musicians. Allen contributes two, the lively "Ninety Nine Binder Twine" and "Chase 'n Me". Her drum-free support team is in excellent, sympathetic shape, with Gord Sheard and Dave Restivo sharing piano duties, guitarist Rob Piltch and bass George Koller ever-present and percussionist Rick Lazar on four tracks where the energy bar is raised. There's a smidgen of free jazz capering on the standard "I Could Have Danced All Night" but it's the gracefully elegant and pure Allen sound on soprano and alto sax that is so appealing. "Lament" is gorgeous. She doesn't need vocalist Marc Jordan's "Coronation Street" to enhance the disc, but keen ears will hear rare tenor sax Allen here. The album is officially released Feb. 23 at Lula Lounge. Geoff Chapman
