Taken from her latest album ‘Who’s Keeping Time?‘, Alela Diane has a video for ‘Wide Open Spaces‘. It features 1986 VHS footage from a ‘family house boating trip’ on Lake Powell. She shares that it includes: “little Alela, Brother Ryan, Mom Suzanne, Dad Tom, Grandma Halga, Grandad Al, Grandpa Dave, Grandma Sue and Aunt Diane.” Keeping it in the family, she thanks “cousin Allison for digitizing Grandad’s VHS tapes”, adding that the “VHS video of Grandparents on waterskis is pure gold.”
Mark Underwood’s KLOF Mag album review concludes:
For all its preoccupation with what slips away — faces misremembered, friends taken too early, the houses we once lived in — Who’s Keeping Time? is markedly less solitary than anything Diane has made since To Be Still. Hurley’s death sent her back into the room with other musicians, and the attic recordings have the warmth of an ensemble that can feel where the next phrase is going before it gets there. The album doesn’t argue against loss; it gathers people around it. “Everything in perpetual motion,” Alela says. “We’re all just passing through.”
Who’s Keeping Time? is out now on Loose Music (UK/EU) / Fluff & Gravy Records (US)
Bandcamp: https://aleladiane.bandcamp.com/album/whos-keeping-time
Alela Diane On Tour:
May 22 — Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik
May 23 — Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
May 24 — Beverungen, DE @ Orange Blossom Festival
May 25 — Rotterdam, NL @ LantarenVenster
May 26 — Deventer, NL @ Burgerweeshuis
May 28 — London, UK @ Rough Trade Denmark Street
June 12 — Trout Lake, WA @ Trout Lake Hall*
June 13 — Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios*
June 17 — Spokane, WA @ The Chameleon*
June 18 — Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern*
Jun 19 — Bellingham, WA @ New Prospect Theatre*
June 27 — Vance, FR @ Eldorado Americana Festival
July 1 — Bremen, DE @ TBA
July 3 — Nürnberg, DE @ St. Katharina Open Air
July 5 — Paris, FR @ Days Off Festival
July 30 – August 2 — Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon
August 5 — Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place*
August 6 — San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel*
August 7 — Caspar, CA @ Caspar Wine*
August 8 — Grass Valley, CA @ Center For the Arts*
August 11 — Ojai, CA @ Ojai Deer Lodge*
August 12 — San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar*
August 13 — Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s*
August 14 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room*
August 15 — Morro Bay, CA @ The Siren*
August 21 — Quilcene, WA @ Tarboo Festival
August 22 — Olympia, WA @ Crow House
September 9 — Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
September 11 — Boston, MA @ Warehouse XI
September 12 — Portland, ME @ SPACE
September 15 — Brooklyn, NY @ The Sultan Room
September 16 — South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
September 17 — Quebec City, CA @ L’Anti Bar & Spectacles
September 18 — Montreal, CA @ Théâtre Outremont
September 19 — Kingston, NY @ Unicorn Bar
September 30 — Dublin, IE @ Whelans
October 1 — Glasgow, UK @ St Lukes
October 2 — Manchester, UK @ Stoller Hall
October 3 — Bristol, UK @ The Lantern
October 4 — London, UK @ EartH Theater
October 30 — Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
October 31 — Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
November 1 — Amsterdam, NL @ Zonnhuis
November 2 — Hamburg, DE @ Mojo
November 3 — Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
November 7 — Lausanne, CH @ Docks
November 15 — Graz, AT @ Helmut-List-Halle
November 16 — Vienna, AT @ Chelsea
*with support from Shannon Lay