have i become the woman you wanted me to be?
do you like the clothes i wear, do you like what's underneath?
how about her touching me, is it dirty to you or clean?
i can put my panties on, don't mean to be obscene.

could you treat me like a little whore?
never meant it as a metaphor.

when i am older, won't tell the children.
between the two of us, my family line is finished.
I'll drink the coffee, float down the river,
music may be the only life i will deliver.

do you listen when i speak?
would you notice if i were to leave?
something real and something fake,
the only thing that my love will ever make.

at least it's something, at least it's loud.
at least i'm singing, you're singing now.
if i am nothing, at least i wrote this.
if i am nothing, at least i was yours for a little bit.

clothesline

the third single from my new album "In Praise of Shadows" which releases on May 9, 2025.

Midnight Diner Curry (ft. Sam Miles)

The fourth single from my new album, "In Praise of Shadows," coming May 9th, 2025. Thanks for listening! 🙏💙

Summer Lavender

my third full-length album. hope you enjoy :)

credits:
all parts written by kalaido, and performed by kalaido with help from the musicians below.

🎨 artwork: endlesstakeout
🎧 mastering: audibleoddities
🎸 guitar: kennebec
🎻 strings: gregory allison
🪈 flute: ian smith
🎤 vocals: brooke derosa
🎸 standup bass: ross garlow
🎶 harp: eleanor turner
🎷soprano sax: patricio böttcher
🎷tenor sax: sam miles


In Praise of Shadows [full album]

blood stains on lace underwear, suck your teeth bite your tongue,
ex girlfriend from iowa, but she's so damn california.
still smokes like she's seventeen, still fucks like a god,
i see her in all my dreams as a goddamn ballerina.

when i'm asleep, i see you in my dreams in a pirouette, a ballerina on set,
the soft candle glow, you dance on your toes,
i still love you and you'll never know.
annie, i bought a ticket to your show with a broken heart,
i sat front fucking row, and i watched you kiss some other girl that night,
i still love you no matter how hard i try.
you wouldn't dream of hearing my symphony.
you look up at me with a hunger, i look down at you with grace.
you saw me for a body, but i saw you, baby i saw you as ballet.

ballet

in another life, i’m the wife of a farmhand.
she cares for the creatures and i love her like a man.
she’s monosyllabic when she gets home from vet school,
making us dinner out of roadkill & beetroot.
in another life, i suck the marrow from your bones.
and once i finish, i say i want to be alone.
it hits you before you know what happened.
you’re buried inside me, like a lamb, like a rabbit.

you touch me pianistically,
fingers buried inside.
you touch me pianistically,
and i die, oh i die, i just die

say a prayer, kiss your throat.
sink my teeth, body’s still warm.
all devoured, all consumed,
i’ll make a great meal out of you.

marrow

Cornucopia: Live

The Gate (Cornucopia Live)

Recorded as a livestream during the first lockdown in March, 2020, this 44-minute improvised ambient set is an expression of stepping into the unknown- the darkness- without a light or knowledge of what's to come. May it serve as an accompaniment for the long winter nights and carve out a sonic space to make peace with what is as-yet unknown. I offer it with the hope that through the music you may find a moment of release.

Please feel free to stream the whole album! If you feel moved, please consider purchasing the music on my bandcamp page www.gregoryallison.bandcamp.com

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www.gregoryallison.net

Recorded live in an apartment in Los Angeles on March 28, 2020

Gregory Allison plays violin, keyboard (track 3), sansula (track 4)

Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Gregory Allison

Album Cover Photo by Eric Lee Huffman www.headshotsbyhuffman.com

©2020 Holy Volcano Music

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Gregory Allison creates with a single violin a sound that travels across great landscapes.  He brings the sensibility of a film composer into a live and intimate setting.  His training in South Indian Classical music brings a melodic fluency and emotional fire to his compositions while his Western Classical training is apparent in the wide sonic palette that he creates.  He is a sound shaper.  His violin goes from intimate weeping to orchestral soundscapes, carrying the listener on a journey all the way.  
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A composer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor who performs in a wide variety of styles and genres, Greg is originally from Madison, WI where he began studying piano at age 5 and violin at 9.  In high school he used his classical violin training as a springboard for learning about improvising, jazz, world music traditions.  He started playing the mandolin and his studies on the instrument landed him a four-year scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he completed a degree in Composition. After college he moved to Vermont and was a founding member of the ME/2 Orchestra, a nationally-recognized full orchestra based in Burlington, VT created for people with mental disabilities and those who support them. He also performed in the traditional middle eastern music ensemble Grup Anwar, and travelled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the Vermont theater troupe Spielpalast Cabaret. In Portland, OR he opened a private studio teaching violin, viola, mandolin, and piano while performing over 200 shows a year with Three for Silver, Eliza Rickman, as a sideman for various local bands, and as a studio musician. He has received two U.S. State Department grants to tour and teach in Russia.
 
In 2018 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a solo performing, recording, and film scoring career.  He formed the acoustic trio RAQIA who will be releasing their second studio album next year. His first solo album is due out in early 2021.

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Gregory Allison

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