CROW AND GAZELLE RELEASE DEBUT LP AS ABOVE NOW SO BELOW
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Texas-based duo Crow and Gazelle, the musical partnership of Red Dirt pioneer, co-founder of The Great Divide, and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee Mike McClure, and his partner in life and in music, artist Chrislyn Lawrence, have released their debut LP, As Above Now So Below.
Crow and Gazelle is a hymnodic, moving collaboration borne out of the connection between two people healing, loving, and growing together. Their songs—built around their entangled close harmonies and sparse, reverent acoustic instrumentation—are wrought out of the love they have come to find for themselves and for each other. As Above Now So Below is an album centered on acceptance and growth in the face of pain… and on embracing the sacred nature within each and every one of us.
The album’s title track begins the journey with reverent ceremony, setting the stage for a journey of introspection, reflection, and catharsis. Through its 13 songs, As Above Now So Below walks alongside the listener… through the depths of darkness, but ever holding space to see that through it is the only way to the other side.
The album is rooted in the process of honoring foundational roots while deconstructing harmful programming. It encourages openness that looks within, rather than without, for purpose and meaning. In its raw vulnerability, As Above Now So Below approaches letting go (of control, of dangerous and unhelpful dogmas, and fear of the unknown) as the path to redemption and liberation. “If we transform our traumas, if we take responsibility for our own healing, we can reclaim our connection to the divine and to all of life, and that alchemy can bring heaven to earth and earth to heaven,” says the band.
This harrowingly beautiful and raw debut outing is at its heart the narration of a divine love story—not only the one between two people but between our hearts and our minds, our pasts and our futures, our knowns and our unknowns. It’s an offering to the shared possibility of love that vibrates through each and every one of us.
As Above Now So Below is available for streaming and purchase HERE. Crow and Gazelle have announced a run of tour dates, with stops planned in Galveston, Tulsa, the Houston area, Austin, and more. Click HERE for a complete list of shows, and be sure to follow them at the links below for all the latest news and updates.
