G D ALLAN *NEW SONG*- "All I Need"_

IN AN EARLIER era, GD Allan would most typically have been discovered leaning against a microphone, cigarette in hand, in an intimate club singing quintessential late night jazz.  However, GD is a modern artist, a musician of great depth and sincerity.  His music pushes the boundaries of style and genre, sometimes breaking into new territories, sailing uncharted waters for the listener.

GD is a troubadour, writing about issues of the heart and mind.  His lyrics are confronting, but his words offer a currency we all understand - hope.  Musically adept, GD’s compositions reflect his broad listening tastes from Soul to Ska, Reggae to Rock, with a style incorporating many crucial elements of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

On his 2006 release It’s As Good As This, the former Funk/Ska/Jazz vocalist played the role of the performer, producer, writer and recording engineer.  His 2007 EPs Angel and Wandering Man are everything that album represented and more.

Recorded with a sophistication not often found in self-produced albums, It’s As Good As This set a new standard of maturity for Australian Alternative Rock.  The electronic Angel and the roots/acoustic Wandering Man have proven GD as a world class songwriter and musician who will not be pigeonholed by suit wearing record executives.

Angel and Wandering Man (available for download at www.amiestreet.com/gdallan) are a departure from the experimental arrangements of  It’s As Good As This and suggest a more cohesive and mellow direction.  Angel in particular has an ambience, a softness and subtlety that has been described as an “atmospheric joy” by listeners.

That old cliché about the need to slog it out for years on the pub circuit being Australian musicians' greatest strength, has never sounded so redundant. These are records of multi-layered sensitivities that mock the brutishness of the beer halls.

Yet there's an essentially informal, relaxed feel to GD’s music that locates it unambiguously within Australia's New World.  The songs here melt together alternative country, jazz, electronic and folk sounds as if they had never been apart, with lyrics that are world-weary but wise.

This is thinking person’s music, for those intent on furthering the lives of themselves and their relationships with others. Better still, it is a real development in Australian Music – progressive and down to earth.  Treat yourself.

                             MORE NEW MUSIC SOMING SOON!

$$$p Believer CD offer.  If you believe in GD you can buy "It's As    Good As This" for the special price of US$5.99 (delivered) from             www.gdallan.com (Offer available until September 1st 2007)

Become a BELIEVER in GD Allan and recieve FREE mp3 songs via PM.  (gdallan.mp3@gmail.com) If you would like a particular track, PM me with the name of the song you would like to receive and I will send it to you FREE. 

*** CD Offer: Buy 10 Parts and receive the 13 track Album "It's as  Good as This" + Demo Disc "Revolution" (10 tracks) mailed to your door! $$$

                                VIDEO - THE EPIC BLOCKBUSTER                          "The Making Of Angel" - I thought it would be fun to show you guys how I                         do things down under! See the Video tab.

Hello World! I'm GD Allan, a singer/songwriter from Melbourne, Australia - DOWNUNDER!  I record, produce, arrange, mix, master, program the drums and bass and play the instruments on the songs you hear (except for 'It's as good as this': bass guitar - Karl Willebrant; additional drum programming - Dave Rule).  And that's my voice too!

View the article "In his own words....GD Allan" in the Sellaband                                               Tribune HERE.

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