Alela Diane

Alela Diane – The Pirate’s Gospel (Deluxe Edition) (2006/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:33 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AllPoints

Remastered edition of Alela Diane’s first mythical album including 10 bonus tracks. 2006’s The Pirate’s Gospel was the debut release from singer and songwriter Alela Diane. Hailing from the deep woods and winding rivers of Northern California Gold Rush town Nevada City, Alela grew up singing songs with her parents (both musicians). During a stay in San Francisco in 2003, she began teaching herself guitar and writing her first songs, blending tense, trance-like arpeggios, with warm, thick vocals and meditative lyrics about family and nature. Written in response to a loss of home and familiarity, The Pirate’s Gospel is a powerful document of personal reevaluation and renewal set against the backdrop of generations past and future, mothers and fathers, life, death, and birth.

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Alela Diane – Live at the Map Room (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:32 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © AllPoints

Alela and her friends/band mates, Heather Woods Broderick and Mirabai Peart, recorded this album at the tail end of 2018, just after returning home from tour. They performed songs from across Alela’s repertoire live, as if in concert, at the Map Room Studio in Portland, Oregon.
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Alela Diane – Cusp (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:15 minutes | 407 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alela Diane

In 2007, The Pirates’s Gospel wrote its drugged-up folk onto the heart of gospel. Alela Diane brought her staggering voice to this first album. It would be a hit with fans of Cat Power and Karen Dalton… A decade later, the Californian set up in Portland, setting up in a house in the middle of the woods, surely a kind of re-fuelling after the birth of her daughter two years earlier… There, the songwriter set aside her acoustic guitar for a grand piano on which she created the songs on Cusp, the fifth album from a woman who had decided to draw up a balance sheet which was as much personal as it was artistic.
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