Allie Crow Buckley

TOWARDS THE DIRECTION OF MUSIC...

My name is Allie Crow Buckley, and I am a singer songwriter based in Los Angeles. Though I can mostly be found these days in the English countryside, which has been a welcomed break from the eternal sunshine of California and has served as inspiration for my forthcoming LP ‘Utopian Fantasy.’  

I find that my passions other than music are a crucial part of my creative process as a whole. The multitudes of ways we can express and connect tend to be intertwined into almost everything we create. I enjoy an array of sensorial delights, such as floral arranging, crafting fragrance, painting, immersing myself in the endless well of mythology, and dance. 

Growing up, you could find my family dancing in our kitchen, in a parking lot, in a truck bed, at other people’s parties…  

First note of a song, we’re up! The spell has been cast, the scene has been set. One by one slowly grooving and gravitating towards the direction of the music. Self-possessed yet moving as a unit. Dance has woven its way through my art - to the way that I write and the cadence in which I sing. In dancing, as in most performance, you are able to reach a state of sort of self-possession - in the true meaning of the phrase. To be totally enraptured within this world you’re creating or emoting.  

"I HAVE HAD A LIFELONG ADORATION FOR DANCERS LIKE PINA BAUSCH AND ISADORA DUNCAN - AND THEIR ARTFUL BALANCE OF TECHNICALITY AND FERVOR."

"I have had a lifelong adoration for dancers like Pina Bausch and Isadora Duncan - and their artful balance of technicality and fervor." I began formal training as a child, and danced for a company for many years in a variety of styles - though ballet ultimately stole my heart.  

Growing up as I did in this wonderfully hippy household - the sort of beautifully rigid, structured, ancient-feeling world of ballet felt all my own. There I would be almost five days a week in the slightly damp and eternally freezing dance studio, stepping my feet into rosin, and in total bliss.  

I have had a lifelong adoration for dancers like Pina Bausch and Isadora Duncan - and their artful balance of technicality and fervor. Two qualities that are intrinsically tied to my most favourite art.  

To quote Pina Bausch “When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words.” As a songwriter, this idea of wordless expression is what makes dance a particularly welcomed respite from songwriting. 

My most recent single ‘Dreamboat Soulmate’ arrived on February 24th, and my forthcoming record ‘Utopian Fantasy’ arrives on May 19th.