Allan Taylor - Leaving At Dawn (2009) SACD

After Allan Taylor´s latest solo album on Stockfisch presenting Allan as solo performer with his voice and guitar, he releases the SACD Leaving At Dawn on which his new songs are supported by many studio musicians with instruments as well as with vocals: Ian Melrose (git.), Chris Leslie (violin & viola), Hans-Jörg Maucksch (bass), Hrólfur Vagnsson (acc.) - to name just four of them.

The twelve tracks on this album are a mature singer’s retrospective covering moments, places and stories of biographical, personal and historical nature. A troubadour’s love songs, intimate memories of family life, echoes of sweet rebellion in the year of 68 – Taylor has thoroughly enjoyed the lightness of being while it was still not unbearable. Later he transcended those memories of New York and Amsterdam and Brighton Beach and through his art made them valid and lasting for ever.

That young man once left his home in the footsteps of the beat poets – wanting to be a wandering minstrel. That he became this kind of artist is proof enough of Allan Taylor’s successfully doing what he once promised to his father. He has most certainly not become an "almost man". In his existence as a man and as a poet he has grown into a mature personality taking his share from life courageously, generously passing on the gift.