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

Photo Credit Music, Laughter, Love Creatives

Rae: A Drop of Golden Sun

Written, performed, and recorded by Rae Mc Alister for my one and only.  Soft tones and lots of harmony makes this love song soothing.  

This became our saying to each other since after our wedding.  The priest said,"Til death do you part," and we leaned in to each other saying,"and then some."

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And Then Some

A eulogy to a kind hearted fireball who came around just when I needed it the most, and only stayed long enough to make all the difference.  Mr. John Carter.  Writing, piano, and vocals by yours truly.

See the video @ http://youtu.be/HdXfSSWZU40
and visit me on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/cdarae

Tall Tales

I FINALLY got around to making a version of this I like!  Hope it makes all you Wolf fans happy.  Bluesy lament capturing the feeling of thinking you're at the top of your game and finding you ARE the game.  Wolves in sheep's clothing, love, deceit, trains, this song has it all.  Hold on and enjoy the ride!  Grab a free download and make this your jams!

Wolf

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

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Written long, long ago and highly requested I decided to dust this one off and make a recording for my friendos.  Especially with Denae in mind.  Love you sister!  <3

Mistress

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Fresh back from years in Kenya my sister, brother in law, and I had some fun impromptu jam sessions and they sounded so good on this one we just laid it down....just like that.  They are so fun to play with and have so much talent, really pleased to have captured a little.  Enjoy and grab a free download to make this your new jam!

Written about some dear friends of mine who fell in love under what seemed to be impossible circumstances and made it through with flying colors and now a thriving family.  Here's to Carrie and Dado.  All my love.

Carrie Me

Fusion of integrated sounds mixed by Izzuss combined with the vocals and lyrics of Rae McAlister, Double Future Shiny Shoes is a colab of epic proportions....coming to a speaker near you....

Shiny Shoes

DoubleFuture ShinyShoes

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.