Opera dancer, avant-garde composer, ambient sorceress. Pick your lens.

Alison Clancy has released her latest single “The Valley” via Independent Project Records and MRI/Proper Music. The track is available now on all major digital music platforms.

Co-written and co-produced with Stephen Masucci (The Lost Patrol), the song was engineered by Larry Alexander (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Diana Ross). It’s a floating, ambient track that sounds like it was beamed in from a forgotten dream or the corner of a church basement—because it kind of was.

The Song

• “The Valley” is hazy, piano-driven, ghostly
• Clancy’s voice is thin but sharp, like a flicker of light on wet pavement
• The track builds slow but never explodes — tension replaces resolution
• Equal parts emotional hypnosis and deliberate hesitation

It’s the kind of song where you’re not sure if she’s asking a question or giving up on the answer.

Who’s Involved in The Valley

• Stephen Masucci – co-writer, co-producer
• Larry Alexander – engineer
• Alison Clancy – vocals, vision, mood, and movement

From the Basement of the Met

Clancy, a professional dancer with the Metropolitan Opera, reportedly wrote “The Valley” in the basement rehearsal rooms between performances.
This isn’t a side project — it’s a mirror to her performance work:
deliberate, atmospheric, and uncomfortable in all the right ways.

Previous Work

Her 2022 IPR debut Mutant Gifts was recorded during her artist residency in St. John’s Church in NYC’s West Village. That EP, mixed by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart), got attention for its avant-garde tone and spatial weirdness.

• Backseat Mafia called it “expansive, avant-garde, brooding”
• amNY profiled her dual careers in dance and music in 2024