In mid-2022 Ocean Grove musician Andrea Robertson received news that she had been awarded an Arts Culture Heritage grant through the City of Greater Geelong aimed specifically at local artists and their continued recovery from the impacts of COVID.
Robertson had a new collection of songs ready for recording, and she intentionally pitched her release to be a little different from the norm. She was going to record and release a series of four EPs over the course of a year, all coinciding with the change of the seasons.
Autumn will usher in the long-awaited launch of the first recordings, Seasons Volume 1.
At the end of the 12-month period when all EPs have been released, the culmination of her new works will be a brand new album to be released digitally and on CD, making it album number four in Andrea’s catalogue.
“I felt as though this release strategy was a good approach as I tried to regain some of the lost momentum following the impacts of COVID and help me to reconnect with my audience and, hopefully, maintain a steady flow of creativity rather than the disjointed stop-start life we’ve been dealing with for so long,” she said.
Robertson revealed she has had a number of personal battles in recent years. “Although music continued to be my go-to, there was a long, dry period when it came to songwriting which was quite foreign to me,” she said.
“Some days I honestly thought my songwriting days were over. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case, and here I am, ready to start sharing my new songs with the world again. It’s both exciting and daunting, but I’m ready for it.”
‘All That Glitters’ is the first single release off Seasons Volume 1.
“I really love this song, I wrote it after sitting down strumming an old 12-string guitar my husband bought for me,” Robertson said.
“It was one of the songs that briefly, but not completely, broke the long, dry spell in my songwriting.”
The launch of Seasons Volume 1 will take place on Sunday March 26 from 3pm to 5pm at Queenscliff Brewhouse.
