A little taste of the essentials, highlighting the variations of sounds Rae McAlister features, ranging from blues and folk to baroque pop.

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Rae: A Drop of Golden Sun

This song is about the current political climate. It makes reference to 4chan, Anonymous, Monsanto, the NSA whistleblowers, the Bodhi bombings and monk protesters, and the call to judgement of our unconstitutional government. 

Rise A.K.A The Absence of Love

I'm a troll living under bridges
I have to fold before I break the hinges
Clip Clop life tromping on my head
It won't stop until I'm lying dead

I'm human and I make these mistakes 
I've been sleeping for a long, long time
When you're dreaming you know when you wake it's time to open your eyes
Don't you think it's time we rise

You're a lotus drifting through the murky
Far above you there's a light that you see
You have to grow you have to keep on reaching
You have to know to flower from the teaching

We're human and we make these mistakes
We've been sleeping for a long, long time
When you're dreaming you know when you wake it's time to open your eyes
Don't you think it's time we rise

Food of the earth, now proprietary
Barter exchange, there is no monetary
For everything is imaginary, everything is imaginary

They know we're uninvolved they know that we won't fight
We're watching all our rights march away before our very eyes
We have to be involved, you know we have to rise
Before we watch our rights march away before our very eyes

Whistle blowers, people knowers, Trying real hard to let us all go and
Looking at life for espionage treason is telling the truth to all us
Our Big Brother sweet republic, guised as altruistic cries out for justice
But who will judge you, who will judge you?

We're human and we make these mistakes 
We can't afford to make them anymore
Monks lighting themselves on fire out of desire
To free us from this prison door
Our Earth our lives are fading away
Unless we see we're in a freedom cage
Stop sleeping start feeling enraged for we are ruled
By the absence of love

Remember, remember the 5th of November
Be careful how ye judge less ye be judged

All you trolls come out from your bridges
Dawn your masks, come on and join the masses

Rae McAlister all rights reserved

Do not mistake this as being unpatriotic. I love our country, I love the men and women who fight for our freedom, I disagree with the way our rights are slowly disappearing and the illegal extortion of the working man's pay while making fortunes off of the ruin of them all while pulling the wool over eyes saying if you don't have anything to hide then there is no problem. I'm not hiding guns under my clothes, still I prefer not to go naked. :D The freedom can also be walking through the streets without being searched or followed. 

I embrace all political walks and think we all should. I also think we need to educate ourselves and become more involved in what is happening instead of expecting the country to run itself while we fling random accusations and criticisms around without action.

Monsanto is a huge corporation with many of the elite invested and deregulation allowing them to use products that are not properly tested and causing extreme diformity and health issues. They ruin careers of scientists who step forward with these findings and have their own scientists say the findings were incorrect. They create a proprietary seed that is created to be able to withstand any amount of pesticide and herbacide which they then soak with it and and feed to our livestock and us. It's destroying our cells with the very thing that breaks down the cells in the creatures and plants it's made to destroy. There are so many other things I can't even go on....watch this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUd9r...

Be involved, be informed, be passionate, be awake, rule with love

Absence Of Love

Ashti

Recorded and mixed by yours truly!  Reminiscing old friends and visits home!

Chums

The urgent need to be with the ones you love at any cost, cross any distance, leave anything behind.  Nothing else matters.  Help yourself to a free download!  This was recorded and mixed by yours truly.  

This song had the sweetest privilege of being featured in a short film by Wonderbound Ballet's Project Wonder.   Choreographed by the ridiculously talented Deanna Lefton and filmed with cinematic genius by Jordan Lefton

What a captivating visualization of the emotion we've all felt.  It had an even heavier significance with the project being Wonderbound's way to keep the dance going through the early stages of Covid quarantine.

https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=232753181137058&_rdr

Home Sweet Home

The past haunts us, even if we lock it in a nice container, in a deep dark closet of our subconscious.  After tossing too much in our chests  it begins to surface in unmanageable ways.  This song is about facing the fears that have been lurking in the shadows, taking them out, looking at them, and setting them free.  Inspired by my recent EMDR experience, which incidentally made things much worse.  I was told I have a hypersensory disorder, synesthesia, along with PTSD, that actually made a past assault replay over and over like a projection over reality.  Even more vivid, details, smells, sounds, and the three shadows of my assailants, resurfaced after being walked through it again in attempts to desensitize the emotions connected to the experience.  This composition is an attempt to manifest an end to the torment from what was in the past from being my always current struggle. Be safe, be good to each other, and write a new ending to the narrative that keeps you captive instead of revisiting it.

 Don't forget your free download!  If you enjoy the music please find me at https://www.facebook.com/raemcalister/?fref=ts and send me a message!!!  Love all

Forever Now

This started as an amazing composition by Izzuss 
( https://soundcloud.com/izzuss/letterboxer-demo )
that just possessed me and I knew I had to write a piece for it.  It's inspired by current world events and the desire for us all to have an inspired leader or an oracle, also the fear of needing to turn tale if the worst happens.  Final mix and vocal recordings by myself....it may evolve even further as we trade it back and forth.  

Letterboxer Featuring Rae McAlister

Recorded by request from Willow to fall asleep to.  

Today's project:
~Record Spider
~Create Artwork for album art

The inspiration for this song is the battle against my muscles that wrap me tighter much like the web of a spider.  Still has mistakes and needs a singing saw and a cello....but here it is in the rough.  

Recorded on my G2 cell phone using the Rehearsal Application


Spider

My birthday was on a New Moon and yours on a Harvest!  Hope your year shows all the hard work you've put into life and returns all the love

Harvest Moon

Deep Jazz Bass carries this mysterious and contagious journey

Dark Dark

I wrote the lyrics and played the guitar and Mr. Sickly teamed with me for the music comp and played the uke like a champ.  This was conceived summer of 07 or 08 I believe, and it always makes me think of the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean movie.  :)  Hope you like it! This version is a  beautiful recording and mix by F R Sickly when we were a 2 man band called Dick and Jane.  I recently added the beginning effects, the undersea creaking and squeezebox, and am working on a heartbeat and seagulls as well.  

Lyrics:

It's bitter and it's cold, it's broken down and old
Every splintered thing you own you never replaced with gold and
I'm just another thing that falls apart in your hands
Dirty tears, and dust, and rust, and
When I feel your head rest gentle on my chest I can't feel your love
You're just another drop of rain on my umbrella
Cause I've got all these walls up, all these walls up
I think of other kisses, romances I've been missing
Honey that ain't love, lover that ain't love

If you're looking for me my heart is waiting
At the bottom of the sea hoping and praying
That you'll lose your taste for me and let me be
Set me free like a mermaid sweet, sweet sailor

Round and round we go and where we're stopping
No one even knows their mouths are dropping
I'm tired of the flight nothing left in me 
To get me through tonight's long journey
And the squeeze box in the freezer proves that nothing ever changes
We're just in deeper now, much, much deeper

If you're looking for me my heart's residing
At the bottom of the sea hoping and hiding
That you'll lose your taste for me and let me be
Set me free like a mermaid sweet, sweet sailor

Come, come now let's call it over
You want to keep what isn't yours
A hug and kiss goodbye keep it civil
I don't want to be here anymore

Now I don't want to boast, this may sound crazy
But Davy Jones' ghost, he ain't got nothing on me
I feel like a buffoon for so many moons
I've been marooned, marooned, marooned, marooned
Now don't keep me on land you know I'm bound to shrivel
I don't understand all your foolish drivel
Whatever you have planned I will hold your hand just not as my man
Not as my man, not as my man, not as my man, not as my man, not as my man, not as my man


Art work Rae McAlister 2015

The Bottom of the Sea WFX

A commentary on trying not to sweat the small stuff and expanding your mind to destroy preconceived bias. Embrace, love, accept, and grow.... and have grace for yourself so you can enjoy life to its fullest!

Don't Sweat It

Living an eclectic, creative life oozing everything from jazz, blues, and ukey shanties, to composing EDM indie baroque pop operatic ditties.  Thanks for stopping by.

Harvest Moon

Rae McAlister

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