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Cindy Alexander 's While the Angels Sigh is at once a musical affirmation of personal power and grace, and an acceptance of human weakness and fallibility. Cindy Alexander has written a songbook for the sandwich generation, with wisdom for millennials, and gratitude to the generations that came before her. It took two years to curate the song list with executive producer and label co-founder, Kirk Pasich. By late 2019, Cindy Alexander sat in Sage & Sound Studio with a dream team of musicians, led by producer/bass player Sean Hurley and producer/drummer Victor Indrizzo. “Try, Try, Try" was a co-write with Cindy’s career-long collaborator, Grammy award-nominated producer and songwriter, David Darling. The song is about trying to connect and reignite the passion, when life gets in the way and distracts us from what really matters. While writing the song, a distracted Cindy had fallen and broken her elbow and wrist while running to make a meeting (“at least I feel alive…bleeding from a break”). Also included in the record is a “live” version of the song (all players in one room in one take) as an acoustic ballad, turning a sexy bar burner into a trippy, hypnotic siren song. “Room at the Bottom,” is a tongue in cheek ode to the down and out musician, as well as an answer to Tom Petty’s “Room at the Top,” and was built around a signature guitar lick by David Levita (Alanis Morissette, Lana Del Rey, Sheryl Crow) and a scrappy, beat up piano part by Michael Farrell (Alanis Morissette, Macy Gray), achieved by placing three No.2 pencils on the piano strings to create the distortion. “Broken but Beloved,” a song about impermanence, was recorded with Grammy award-winning producer and engineer Ross Hogarth at Sunset Sound. It was the last in-person session before the Los Angeles lockdown order took effect in March 2020. Cindy’s dear friend and touring buddy, Michael Bacon (one-half of the Bacon Brothers and award-winning composer) contributed cello from his studio in New York. After recording his part, he sent Cindy a note, in which she found the title of her new record: “When I write my ‘Remediation Practices for Enduring the Pandemic,’ chapter 2 will read: 1. Get an amazing lifelong friend who’s got Beverly Hills chops but keeps it real. 2. Have her write a beautiful song. 3. Have her ask you to put 1,000,000 cell parts on it. 4. Do that. Title of the album: ‘While the Angels Sigh.” Tracks were transferred back and forth throughout the 2020 quarantine between home studios, and finally finished up in Cindy’s bedroom at her new home in Big Sur. Although the creative process was a challenge, the result is a triumph. While the Angels Sigh is an achingly personal album that speaks to and for all of us, and a musical tribute to a broken but beloved humanity.
Released in 2018, singer/songwriter Cindy Alexander has the ability to write from a personal place that touches universal emotions in all of us. Nowhere To Hide was recorded in live single takes, played together by the musicians in the same room. The only instruments involved were voices, a grand piano, acoustic guitars and a dobro. Kirk Pasich (Blue Élan Records co-founder) set the stage, and allowed the musicians to do what they do best in an environment without restraints. This release features fan favorites spanning Alexander’s entire nine album career as well as covers of Bread’s “Everything I Own,” and Stephin Merritt’s “Book of Love.”
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Deep Waters, Cindy’s eighth studio album, Alexander explores love in all its forms: sacred, passionate, sexual, maternal, even remorseful and misguided – but always with an unrelenting truthfulness. In both her music and vocal delivery, there is a boldness that demands the listener lean in and surrender to her fearless take on life’s messy complications and rich joys. When Alexander started to work on Deep Waters,she was ready for change. “When you’ve experienced any kind of brush with your mortality, you want to thrive, not just survive. The fact that I get to live my dream and make music for a living, I don’t take any of that for granted.” – Cindy Alexander
Released in 2015, Cindy Alexander reflects upon her career, her start in the music industry, and all that she has learned since with the 5 song EP An American Girl. This EP is a product of those personal reflections and memories, sung to the tune of rootsy Americana instrumentation. “The songwriter is a storyteller in all its capacities as she faces the heartache of a lost love and the stirrings of sexual feelings. Intimate? Honest? Yes, Cindy Alexander is, and she is confident when she sings these songs.” – Innocent Words, 2015
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