Muruch.com for RAINN Benefit Album Features Three Allison Crowe Songs

Culture site Muruch, one of the web’s longest-serving supporters of music, this month launched its dream-project into the world – a benefit album for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network organization and helpline (originally created by Tori Amos):

“Muruch.com for RAINN moves from the horror of sexual trauma to the incredible courage of survival, benefits the most worthy cause and is a magnificent, genre-crossing collection of music, poetry and art.”

“Muruch’s musical mascot Allison Crowe (she sang ‘Ring of Fire’ in Man of Steel) donated not 1 but 3 songs to our Muruch.com for RAINN benefit album. You can hear the first, ‘Words,’ below and get it along with 24 other mp3s by donating $10 (or more) directly to RAINN through Muruch’s RAINN.org fundraising page.

“The album also features music and poetry by Concrete Blonde’s Johnette Napolitano, American Gods/Coraline author Neil Gaiman, My Brightest Diamond, Amanda Palmer, The Voice‘s Kat Robichaud, Midlake, Flogging Molly, Poe, The Mynabirds, Allison Crowe, Crystal Good, Kevin Kantor and many more.”

The first song from Allison featured is “Words” - http://www.muruch.com/2015/07/wordsrainn.html – described this way by Muruch when it capped the blog’s list of Top 50 Songs of 2013:

“Though Allison apparently only took up the fiddle for the recording of this album, she already sounds like a folk fiddle pro in the standout track ‘Words’. What a lush piece of work that song is! There’s a touch of Celtic folk in the instrumentation, haunting backing vocals and a slow building, seething tension until Allison unleashes her wail toward the end of the song.”

“Scared”, is second in the trilogy of songs Muruch presents on its benefit album http://www.muruch.com/2015/07/scaredrainn.html  Of this track, released on Allison’s debut disc, “Six Songs”, the musician says:

“This song is about not being afraid to stand up for yourself and what you believe in, to speak out even in the most adverse of circumstances.”

“Phoenix” is the third song Muruch includes from Allison’s on the benefit album - a song recording from “Sylvan Hour” - Allison Crowe’s album released this Spring - http://www.muruch.com/2015/07/phoenixrainn.html

Enjoy the music – in audio and video – and, please, support the Muruch.com for RAINN project and cause :) Thank you!

Phoenix

"Phoenix", a 'deep track' on a richly diverse album. Allison Crowe's voice and piano is accompanied by sympatico rhythm duo Dave Baird (bass) and Laurent Boucher (percussion). Guitar is played by Del Crowe, Allison's Father. Songs of Innocence. Songs of Experience.

Phoenix

Allison Crowe (vocals, piano) here performs "Phoenix", a song on her album "This Little Bird" with musical accompaniment from Dave Baird (bass) and Laurent Boucher (percussion).



The accompanying image is by Russian-born American Val Telberg, a pioneer in photo-montage, and popularly known for his collaborative work with the French writer Anaïs Nin.

This photo from "the surrealist poet of the mind" was used for the cover of the Louise Varèse, New Directions Paperback, translation of poet Arthur Rimbaud's "En Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell)".

"...et il me sera loisible de posséder la vérité dans une âme et un corps/...and I shall be free to possess truth in one soul and one body."