GD Allan - Guitars, Voice, Synths, Drum Programming, Didgeridu, Percussion
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WHAT THE LISTENERS AND EXPERTS SAY ABOUT GD ALLAN:
"Now this I really like (in reference to 'What's Going On', an unreleased track)......it's high quality music in every department!" - Adam Sieff, Director of Jazz for Sony Music, Europe, Sellaband A&R
"GD is an artist that offers you a wide range of songs in a different style and masters them all! You can't pigeonhole him and that's the great thing about him. A very creative guy with a strong voice. I'm excited to see him in the studio again.
This review is based on the full album "It's as good as this". Everyone should get this one!" Roman, Austria
"Love 'Mid Winter Blues' ('Space Slug Blues' alt. title, from the album 'It's as good as this'), great beat, reminds me of Queen's - We Will Rock You. Great arrangements and vocals" - Jay Weeks, Canada
"Great sound and variety in these songs! Really strong voice..." - Logical One, USA
"but if I had to name one (favourite artist), I guess GD Allan would be the one...I love his song ‘It's as Good as This’...” - Keep It Unreal, Austria
"GD allan has a great voice, great songs....Definitely one to watch if you are looking for artists who will succeed!!" - Matthijs, Netherlands
"I love your song "He's a Nurse", that's what got me listening to the rest of your music. You have wonderful heartfelt songs with groovy guitars!" - Smurfette, USA
Influences
DJ Krush, Paul Kelly, Millie Jackson, Up Bustle and Out!, Ray Charles, Tony Joe White, Neil Young, Steve Earle and the Dukes, Pink Floyd, Al Greene, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Miles Davis, Horace Andy, Massive Attack, Tricky, The Orb, Taj Mahal, Jeff Buckley, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, James Brown, DJ Cam, DJ Shadow, David Gray, Led Zeppelin, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Vince Jones, Frank Zappa, Bon Scott, Ben Harper, REM, Ella Fitzgerald, Kurt Elling, Nina Simone, Astrid Gilberto, Stan Getz, Audio Active, Jeff Lang,
Sounds Like
Beck vs Massive Attack vs David Bowie vs Sneaker Pimps vs Jeff Buckley vs Warren Zevon vs Morcheeba
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GD Allan's first solo CD "It's As Good As This" features 13 songs and over 50 Minutes of Music.
"It's As Good As This" is an album of fine songwriting and strong vocal performances. It is richly layered with fine vocal performances blended with songs of absolute simplicity and subtlety. The influences of Reggae, Country Rock, Electronic Grooves, Soul and Jazz combine to create an Album of real diversity and appeal.
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CD Track list:
1. Space Slug Blues (3:01)
2. It’s As Good As This (3:31)
3. South Earth Coast (3:08)
4. Worry (2:49)
5. Freedom (4:29)
6. Cool Cats (5:11)
7. He’s A Nurse (3:22)
8. Better Blue (4:15)
9. A Little While (6:12)
10. When The Music Starts (3:16)
11. Demeaning Of Life (4:57)
12. Jackie Brown (3:24)
13. Real (3:29)
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.
GD's albums display a richness of sound which resembles the lushness of British bands such as Pink Floyd, The Police and Morcheeba.
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.
GD Allan, a short Biography...
GD (Geoff) Allan is based in Melbourne, Australia.
GD started learning piano at the age of eight. He soon began to write his own music and recording it on a four-track tape machine.
He has played live professionally for 15 years, performing in a wide variety of styles and bands; touring South East Asia with Electronic band "BLiM" (where he thrilled audiences with his gutsy vocal style and flexibility); and supporting such iconic Australian acts as Don Walker and Ian Moss (Cold Chisel) and overseas acts such as The Tea Party (Canada).
GD writes, produces, performs, mixes and masters all his own music. He truly is an 'independent' artist.
The Funknecks take on Deadly are the Naked in a double header at Bar Open 317 Brunswick st Fitzroy, both bands striving for domination of the "Fattness". Who will take out this prestigious prize?! Not to be missed.....Saturday February 28th 9pm free. Then,the very next day Sun March 1st The Funknecks make an appearance at the annual Sydney rd Street Party on the Youth Stage 4:30pm....Thumpin..!!
Hello Darlings, The Wishing Well are performing an all out folkfest at the Northcote Social Club (Our last Melbourne show for 2008), Saturday August 2nd. With supports from Jacks Castle and Kinematic. Doors open 8:30pm. You can buy tickets from us (cheaper) for $10 through emailing us at:
thewishingwellband@gmail.com or online via the Northcote Social Club's www. northcotesocialclub. com or at the door for $12.
Many thanks for the add! Wonderfully inspired songs! Now I'll need to find that tree to move youfrom my wishlist to your growing group of believers on SAB.
In peace and light
Li
Yo G! How is life mate? havent spoken to you in ages. Im up in qld at the moment, hanging with fam, tis very nice up here.
Hope everything is going sweet matie?
Peace
Cal
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