Thank you so much for helping me through this journey of healing and self realization, and for never doubting that we could manifest this wild dream.  I'll miss you so much.  You've been so much more than a therapist to me and I'll always think of you as one of my dearest friends.  Here's a little playlist of some songs I think you may like.  Can't wait to showcase some of what I've been building these past few years.  Close to finishing their mastering and get brave enough to invest in throwing them onto Spotify.  :)  Hope you like them!  Thank you for everything.

For Ali

All of Rae

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

It's time to embrace the short days and blowing winds, the dark chills that come through the atmosphere and now the air waves.  Do send me your hellos!  Loves and kisses from the darkside!

Love, Rae

Blustery Halloween Mix

Autumn Phases (North Idaho Mix 1)

Old, old phone recordings to the shiny new studio ones.  But all your favorites none the less.  Free for download and please drop me a line to say hello! Love all!  Enjoy the season!

xoxo, Rae

Fan Favorites

Rae McAlister

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."

Help yourself to a free download and make it your jams!

And Then Some

I'm Just A Child

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

A collaboration with Tessy Tabish 
A beautiful, poetic lyricism bequeathed to me by the lovely Tessy. A perfect embodiment of raw emotions result from relationships lost, and all that was invested.  I'm so honored to have had the pleasure to compose and mix a musical rendition, and to have done so with her immense patience, patronage, and understanding that reaching the desired end product can take so much time.  I'm so grateful for the amount of learning and skills acquired in the pursuit of accomplishing a rendition worthy of her art.

Thank you for bringing me on this journey, and I hope it releases the binds of the past for both of you.  All my love.  Rae

Lose Heart

05 The Future (feat. Cadence)

For Jean

A song written for a dear friend of mine who is making her way home.  Help me remember her and keep her song playing.  The world is a better place because she visited it.  Happy journeys, love.

Lyrics:

Didn't the starlight shine, wasn't the water fine?
Weren't you loved and seen?  All of the might have beens
Blow away in the wind.  Now is the here we're in
Particles in the sun, boarding the ferry come

I'll light you candles and I'll burn you sage
As ravens carry you to your grave
Will you visit on the breeze in spring
And every fall beneath the eagle's wings
I'll glimpse you dancing in the full moon beams
I'll hear you whisper wisdom in my dearest dreams
I'll meet you there again one day 
And you'll already know the way

Dreaming of a red cabin on the lake
Building fairy palaces by the gate
Ornaments that dazzle and shine through dark
Natives lovely lake side in all your art
Strong hand to pull me up 
Home for the lost and unloved
Warm, happy, welcoming home
But we're boarding the ferry, come

I'll light you candles and I'll burn you sage
As ravens carry you to your grave
Will you visit on the breeze in spring
And every fall beneath the eagle's wings
I'll glimpse you dancing in the full moon's beams
I'll hear you whisper wisdom in my dearest dreams
I'll meet you there again one day
And you'll already know the way

You brought me back from the darkest of dark
I'll sing your song long after you're gone
I'll carry your light that you shone so bright

And I'll light you candles and I'll burn you sage
I'll make a pilgrimage to your grave
Will you visit on the breeze in spring
And every Fall beneath the eagle's wings
I'll glimpse you dancing in the full moon's beams
I'll hear you whisper wisdom in my dearest dreams
I'll meet you there again one day
And you'll already know
Maybe then you can show me
For now you can go on you're way 


I love you Jean!  <3



Journey Home

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

Not my usual fare, this song is written as a HUGE thank you for all of the love and support my dear friend has poured out for me on this difficult trek.  Reconnecting me to what's important, reminding me that so much of our healing process has to do with our own mindset and willingness to receive.  The album art is a picture I took on the way to one of our favorite places, Red Feather, which is such a healing place in itself.  Let me know if you like it, I may make you more!  :)

Keep making music, keep playing music, and keep music in your souls!  Love all!

Rae

Kate's Light

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

Grab a free download!

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

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

Original song to depict the feelings of regret after sour relationships, meant to create and last forever, ending in destruction and ruin.  We've all been Frankenstein's monster and we've all played the creator.  Enjoy the haunting tones of what my husband calls "Monsher Hans" and encouraged me to have the guts to play at gigs.  It was so well received I had many requests to lay it down, so here it is!  Thanks, love.  :)

Frankenstein

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

Meh-rry Christmas!  This one goes out to everyone not necessarily feeling festive this year, and to help them get in the spirit.  <3 Lot's of love and merriment to you!  May you find happiness and contentment and a way to glow this Holiday in your own special way!

Glow (Meh-rry Christmas)

Glow

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.