Allison Preisinger - Standing Steady (2025)
BAND/ARTIST: Allison Preisinger
- Title: Standing Steady
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Independent
- Genre: Acoustic, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
- Quality: 320 / FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 36:51
- Total Size: 86 / 162 Mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. Standing Steady (3:52)
02. Split (4:12)
03. The Woman Who Collaborates (2:52)
04. These Abandoned Walls (3:17)
05. Why Be Sad? (3:22)
06. Long, Dark Days (3:57)
07. Arguing with Rumi (2:37)
08. Can You Hear Me? (3:44)
09. Covered Ears (2:36)
10. What the Trees Said (3:26)
11. Asking (2:56)
[quote][This is Seattle-based singer-songwriter Allison Preisinger’s fourth album of original music. On Standing Steady Preisinger presents a collection of poetry-inspired tracks, sung with a clear, soulful voice over stripped-back acoustic arrangements that give space for the words to breathe.
Album opener ‘Standing Steady’ looks at the journey of finding oneself and how to accept what you discover. The delicate acoustic guitar continues into ‘Split’. A beguiling, simple groove is the backdrop for this collaboration with fellow Seattle-based video-poet Kamari Bright, revealing the natural tensions that can co-exist within a single person. James Bertolino’s poem ‘Woman Who Collaborates’ follows nicely on and brings together the themes of the preceding tracks – the duality of self and finding balance in existence – to paint a picture of a person living within nature.
The album develops with piano replacing guitar for ‘These Abandoned Walls ‘ before ‘Why be Sad?’ teases out the smallest hint of happiness in the bleakest of situations. ‘Arguing with Rumi’ – a poem from Anita K. Boyle – revisits the theme of duality and the complexity of the human soul, and ‘Long, Dark Days’ with its city clocks and church bells suggests a hint of Nick Drake. Preisinger is “an artist interested in using her work to be heard” and a struggle for meaningful communication becomes the main theme as the album draws to a close. ‘Can you hear me?’ is a delicately picked guitar piece with a lone voice seeking connection with someone or something, a theme that continues into ‘Covered ears’. This informal trilogy concludes with ‘What the trees said’ which perhaps suggests that the solution may lie in nature – ‘…listen to the trees … Cause they listen to me.‘ The touching love song ‘Asking’ closes the album with a plea for forgiveness.
Albums based on poetry can often relegate the musical element to a backing track – not so here. Each cut is a good song in its own right, retaining the essence of the underpinning poetry without reducing it to simple verse/chorus arrangements. The melodies of song and poem are complementary, enriching each other; every note like every syllable has a function. The listener can sit back and enjoy ‘Standing Steady’ as a set of beautiful acoustic tracks delivered with gentleness and clarity, or dig deeper and explore the exquisite poetry. Both make for a deeply satisfying experience./quote]
01. Standing Steady (3:52)
02. Split (4:12)
03. The Woman Who Collaborates (2:52)
04. These Abandoned Walls (3:17)
05. Why Be Sad? (3:22)
06. Long, Dark Days (3:57)
07. Arguing with Rumi (2:37)
08. Can You Hear Me? (3:44)
09. Covered Ears (2:36)
10. What the Trees Said (3:26)
11. Asking (2:56)
[quote][This is Seattle-based singer-songwriter Allison Preisinger’s fourth album of original music. On Standing Steady Preisinger presents a collection of poetry-inspired tracks, sung with a clear, soulful voice over stripped-back acoustic arrangements that give space for the words to breathe.
Album opener ‘Standing Steady’ looks at the journey of finding oneself and how to accept what you discover. The delicate acoustic guitar continues into ‘Split’. A beguiling, simple groove is the backdrop for this collaboration with fellow Seattle-based video-poet Kamari Bright, revealing the natural tensions that can co-exist within a single person. James Bertolino’s poem ‘Woman Who Collaborates’ follows nicely on and brings together the themes of the preceding tracks – the duality of self and finding balance in existence – to paint a picture of a person living within nature.
The album develops with piano replacing guitar for ‘These Abandoned Walls ‘ before ‘Why be Sad?’ teases out the smallest hint of happiness in the bleakest of situations. ‘Arguing with Rumi’ – a poem from Anita K. Boyle – revisits the theme of duality and the complexity of the human soul, and ‘Long, Dark Days’ with its city clocks and church bells suggests a hint of Nick Drake. Preisinger is “an artist interested in using her work to be heard” and a struggle for meaningful communication becomes the main theme as the album draws to a close. ‘Can you hear me?’ is a delicately picked guitar piece with a lone voice seeking connection with someone or something, a theme that continues into ‘Covered ears’. This informal trilogy concludes with ‘What the trees said’ which perhaps suggests that the solution may lie in nature – ‘…listen to the trees … Cause they listen to me.‘ The touching love song ‘Asking’ closes the album with a plea for forgiveness.
Albums based on poetry can often relegate the musical element to a backing track – not so here. Each cut is a good song in its own right, retaining the essence of the underpinning poetry without reducing it to simple verse/chorus arrangements. The melodies of song and poem are complementary, enriching each other; every note like every syllable has a function. The listener can sit back and enjoy ‘Standing Steady’ as a set of beautiful acoustic tracks delivered with gentleness and clarity, or dig deeper and explore the exquisite poetry. Both make for a deeply satisfying experience./quote]
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