Julie Crochetière’s fourth solo release is a deeply authentic record. This album was 10 years in the making. Recorded in a week in the fall of 2013 in Montreal with a small rhythm section, strings and a harp, the recording features 9 original songs, and 2 beautifully interpreted covers. Counting Dreams tells a story, a story of love and loss, of soaring hope and heartfelt determination, a story told by a singer songwriter who knows her way into a listeners heart with a hook, with a message and with a truth so deep it will make you cry.
The album reflects another time; the live off the floor recordings of the 60’s, the time before auto-tune and vocal pyrotechnics. A time when all it took to make a killer hook was five fingers carefully placed on a piano, when a song was a craft that was built to carry a message raw with emotion, with joy, with sadness and with a moving human story. The album was produced by Tim Gowdy (Coral Egan, The Barr Brothers) and co-produced by Julie herself. It features Quatuor Orphée with string arrangements by Robin Smith (James Morrison, Cher, Andrea Bocelli).