Биография

Alana is a singer songwriter, recording producer, a folk opera composer, an essayist, and a willing canvas, who makes (and is) art, enfleshed by contemplation, Christianimism, story, and reimagining devotion. From polyculture farming to Jean Gebser, from ancestral healing (human and otherwise) to Silence, from the desert (and beehive hermitage) Abbas and Ammas to ancient magic and myth... Alana continues to journey, and deepen, and do the hard work of taking what we are tempted to exile, into her art, to be metabolized. The working hours of her day, and the whimsy and challenge of family life and community, are devoted to an expression of her fidelity to, and willingness to coalesce with, Longing. Her latest album, Cianalas/Tãsknota, is a powerful folk/rock/fantasy feast for the ears and the eyes. It is a concept "folk opera" album, that works with a number of themes. Ancestral connection. Immigration. The Colonial story. But it especially works with the theme of Longing... Prior to writing in this niche, Alana was signed to Rounder Records, then distributed by EMI, and her second album was produced by Grammy winner Ken Nelson (Coldplay). At that time, she toured frequently and internationally in 17 countries for 10 years. She was featured on a Universal Music compilation that went platinum, on a compilation called Bob Harris Picks in the Uk, and she often co-wrote songs with many renowned writers, in Muscle Shoals, London, Los Angeles, Nashville and Toronto.