Here's the latest from William Crowdis & I @ The Bat Cave.  A version w/ vox will follow.

Skinny - NoVox

“Baby Don’t Go There” follows two people driving across the country, moving closer together with each mile and each secret they share.

Baby Don't Go There

As the dawn breaks, “Waiting For Us” peels rubber on the roads of desire and yearning, then snaps focus to the offer of a warm, shared bed.

Waiting For Us

A "song as a short film" starring New York City.

Find Home

Another “short film in song form”, Head Up High is a positive but restrained slice of life seen from the street.

(A Co-Write with William Crowdis and SM Mitchell.)
About the song:
This is another case where I think putting the words “Hearing, Sight, Touch, Smell, Taste” at the top of the blank page really helped me write this song.

Head Up High

A walking-gait country song (co-written with Adam Langley) about the memories we carry and those we try to leave behind.

(You are much better off not knowing the real stories behind this song.)

Don't Like Being Alone

Lay My Heart Down is a fast run towards sweet refuge.  

(Co-Write with William Crowdis).

Lay My Heart Down

A song for those who have ever felt broken inside. 

(A Co-Write with William Crowdis.)

Going Going Gone Unplugged

This is a co-write with (and performed by) William Crowdis.

Asong for those who’ve felt broken inside.       

This single is the “fully, completely, plugged in version of” Going Going Gone featuring William Crowdis on vocals.  On the surface, it’s a teenage angst story with a positive ending, but I see myself in these lines and I’m no teenager.

Lyrically, the song sprung out of a few experiences.  A friend of my once asked me:  “How thick does the layer of sad covering me have to be before I should chat with a Talk Doc, ‘cuz I’m ok with my thin layer of normal life sadness.”

A few years ago I messed up my knee, and it felt like there was me, but all around me was this three or four inch thick jelly-like layer of pain that clouded my head and affected everything I did or said.

It’s really hard to explain these feelings to someone who has never experienced them.  They might say “yeah, yeah”, but until it happens to them, they’ll never really know.  So, this is a song about all that stuff.  What can I tell you other than:  “it gets better”.

Sonically, we went for a feeling of space and urgency with driving 12-string guitars, large drums and a cool sliding/pulsing bass line.  I love this mix and how William’s voice soars.  It’s quite a change from the “unplugged” version that’s on my cd AFTER NEW YORK.

Going Going Gone

Americana, with a heart and a strong pulse.  Songs and music for placement with media projects and performing artists.

Alan P. MacLeod lives in a tiny overpriced apartment in The Beaches (Toronto) Ontario, Canada.  He's been writing, co-writing, producing and recording music for decades but rarely performs in public.  Alan, a SOCAN and Songwriters Association of Canada member, was a co-founder of SAC’s Halifax Regional Writers Group.

Both the 12-song "XO, eh?" & the 8-song "songs in the key of WTF" were recorded & released during the 2020 COVID lockdown.   An EP of original Christmas Songs called "Let Christmas Find You" was released in 2018.   Various singles are available via his website and on line music sites. "AFTER NEW YORK" was released in 2012.  "Here and Now", from AFTER NEW YORK became the end credit song for Shandi Mitchell's feature film "The Disappeared".  

Joanna Butler included four songs she co-wrote with Alan on her 2008 CD “Sometimes A Daydream”.  Two of his songs appear on Sean Kirby’s CD Trust, including the title track – “Trust These Words”.     He composed soundtracks for independent films and consulted on the score for the 2002 award winning film “Baba’s House”.  Alan released HIDE THE KNIVES in 1998; and CAPO (a series of four EP’s in differing musical styles) between 2005 and 2009.

 In the late 1980’s Alan produced and engineered releases for the Halifax indie bands Infra Dig and Tetrus. (Tetrus became one of the ground-breaking bands of the East Coast alternative music scene at that time.)

Alan works in the film and television industry to feed his music habit.  He's won three Atlantic Film Festival Craft Awards For Art Direction and has one Gemini Nomination.

He continually writes & records.

Please visit ... http://alanmacleod.ca ... for more information.

Alan P. MacLeod

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