Digital Droo here: I saw a clip of Allison bustin' moves in her dance class and thought I'd whip up a quick retro dance remix of Comeback. If you don't know what Comeback is, well, you're gonna have to go to www.Allison2020.com to find out!

Comeback (90's Techno Remix by Digital Droo) Clip

Hello, World! I couldn't be more humped–that's right; hyped AND pumped–to share my very first song, COMEBACK (Featuring Digital Droo @digitaldroo)! It is available now for your listening and downloading pleasure.

Comeback

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Getting Ready To Be Lonely is a Doug Midgley special - a song my dad wrote and left incomplete when he passed away, so it was never released. Upon discovering the song on an old cassette, I began to "collaborate" with him to write the remaining lyrics and develop its musical arrangement. With the help of some talented studio musicians and Digital Droo's epic production skills, I am proud to announce Getting Ready To Be Lonely as my second single release!

GR2BL | Single

Getting Ready To Be Lonely

Fusing modern pop with effusive orchestration, Hummingbird is a sanguine rhapsody filled with heart, hope, symbolism, and the power to transport through a broad spectrum of emotions and time. 

Writing Hummingbird was a cathartic response to the loss of Allison's father, Doug Midgley. His death had been preceded by vocal chord paralysis, which reduced the talented singer-songwriter’s voice to a breathy whisper for the final years of his life. The treasured guitar he left behind, a Gibson Hummingbird, became a symbol through which Allison could feel his love. Unable to play the guitar herself when the lyrics were written, this song evolved out of Allison's earnest wish to carry out the musical legacy of her beloved dad. The dark and mournful words took on a more optimistic tone when Andrew Tokuda, a.k.a. Digital Droo, began building and arranging the song 22 years later. Andrew constructed the song in quasi-movements to portray the evolution of grief to remembrance and depict the passing of time. Hummingbird was officially released on December’s Fourth Day; the 23rd anniversary of Doug Midgley’s passing. 

A note from Andrew Tokuda, the producer: I originally approached this song from a mixer's perspective–to improve the sonic quality of the provided tracks. Really mundane, technical stuff. While working with the song, however, the lyrics really hit home, and inspired me to write and arrange a whole new ending–one that conveyed a feeling of acceptance, hope, and a reminder to LIVE one's life as our lost loved ones would want us to live. What started out as a service-for-a-client became a passion project, and I'm proud of what the song has become.

Hummingbird

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"Since We Broke Up," is a song my dad, Doug Midgley, wrote. I heard it for the first time on an old cassette when I was just a teen and was devastated when the player ate the tape before it finished playing the song. Luckily, I was able to find a place that could somehow digitize the content despite the fact that I handed them a wadded up bundle of cassette string. 
I was so relieved when I played this song in it's entirety for the first time on a CD player. 
Years and years later -maybe 12 years- I received a random text from Digital Droo asking how I felt about Force M.D.'s "Tender Love." I told him I thought it would be a blast to work on a song with that kind of throwback vibe and sent him an MP3 of my dad's "Since We Broke Up," thinking it might be fitting. I was pleasantly surprised when, mere hours later, Droo sent me an instrumental marriage of the two songs. 
Together, Digital Droo and I shattered our personal songwriting records. We had the entire song written, arranged, performed, mixed and mastered in a matter of weeks. It is amazing to think that a song that must be 30+ years in the making only took us a couple of weeks to conceive of and complete - as though it was written in the stars.

Since We Broke Up

This song got its start when Doug Midgley, my dad, wrote a song he called 1979. I heard the song for the first time years after he had passed away and felt so moved by lyrics and topical relevance that I decided to write a sort of follow-up. I called it 2020. What surprised me most as I wrote, was just how many of the concerns my dad expressed about the state of the world in 1979 still remain major pain points today. His words are so true today that I went so far as to incorporate a full verse from his song into mine!

2020

‘Malala’ is an emotionally charged tribute to Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, featuring world inspired instrumentation and an electronic lounge vibe.

Single

Malala

A Christmas Song For Mom is a celebration of the amazing women in our lives who make the holiday season so warm, magical, and memorable. Put the focus where it belongs with A Christmas Song For Mom!

A Christmas Song For Mom

A Rhapsody too strange not to hear for yourself!

SINGLE

It's Not A Clown

"If you’re a blues, soul, rock, country, jazz or folk singer fan, Allison2020 has you covered. She is an extremely versatile singer with a rich resonating voice capable of covering an enormous range – from the lowest lows, to the highest soaring highs... If you don’t feel anything when you listen to her every bit of energy on the gritty rock backdrop of “2020”, then you don’t have a heartbeat."
-Tuned Loud, 2019

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