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After 15 years of study, work and travel related to the visual arts, this Canadian Montreal-born musician found herself compelled to focus more passionately on songwriting about five years ago when she settled in the Outaouais region of Quebec. Encouraged by a supportive and thriving songwriting community she began performing professionally in 2001. Her repertoire covers a broad spectrum of subject matter brimming with distinctive guitar work and some forays into mandolin territory. Her influences are many: everything and anyone from Billie Holiday to Bruce Cockburn to Dr. Seuss. But the common thread is her desire to serve the song, drawing from a range of styles while ultimately evoking her own unmistakeably rich and original sound. Marlane released her beautifully-crafted debut album entitled Stillness Hold On in January 2004; produced by internationally acclaimed Canadian musician/songwriter/producer Ian Tamblyn. There is a definite longing for quietude expressed in the title-track song acknowledging the restlessness and inevitable uncertainties of life and love - that we live constantly on the edges of joy and despair. Other songs on the album consider this state of being "on the edge" from many different vantage points. The adventure takes us through the bombardment of everyday life, stripping it away from the outside-in, from the inside-out, in search of some fundamental resting place for the soul. The songs can be intimate and moody, tongue-in-cheek, playful, seasonal, melancholy, oblique or straight-shooting . . . an album that can be listened to over and over again, each time revealing something new.

"She courageously follows her creative process deep and far. And while she cites people such as Joni Michell and Gordon Lightfoot as influences, the musician she sounds the most similar to is . . . Alise Marlane." Chris White, Artistic Director, CKCU-Ottawa Folk Festival

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.magma.ca/~marlane

Track List:
1. Snowglobe
2. Hard Winter Soul
3. Cover Me Bridge
4. Stones
5. Great Blue Waiting
6. Prussian Blue
7. Crows For Life
8. Only The Moon
9. Highway Dogs (instrumental)
10. Rice Paper (live at Rasputin's)
11. Ain't No Industry
12. Stillness Hold On
13. Angels Sail Away
14. Stranded

Suggested CDs:

• Simone White

Other Genres:

• FOLK: like Joni
• JAZZ: Smooth Jazz
• SOLO FEMALE ARTIST