Sawyer Fredericks and Cassandra Kubinski have revealed new collaborative single “Burn It Down”. It marks the first collaboration between independent singer/songwriters Sawyer Fredericks (winner of The Voice) and Cassandra Kubinski. The track “reveals the moment of transformation when someone decides to let their own life go in a blaze of glory, letting it burn to make room for reinvention.”
Written by Kubinski, originally, as a song to pitch to Yellowstone, she quickly realized she was writing her own story.
She shares:
Since writing the song, there have been so many people who are really fired up about the song’s drama, passion, and message. I think we don’t receive permission in our culture to rip things apart when they are not working, or to ‘hard stop’ and cut our losses. At least for me, there’s always been this impulse to ‘wait it out’, and try to resolve things ‘gracefully’, but in nature, sometimes the wildfires scorch the earth and make room for new growth. It can be scary, and not pretty, but it clears a path to the new.
So revisiting this song felt relevant after the pandemic, when so many are still shifting in their personal lives. And, the song clearly hasn’t reached all the people who could use it, as I continue to see in the responses from fans to the song, original music video, and Sawyer and my collaborative performances.
With Kubinski and Fredericks both living in the New York Capital Region, they have many friends in common, and she was interested in what their voices might sound like together, as well as what they might create artistically. “Burn It Down” seemed to be the piece that “resonated topically, vocally, and in terms of taking a brand-new approach to a previously released song.”
Sawyer adds:
I was immediately drawn to this song, and felt I really could connect to the lyrics. Though it’s a song about letting go and rising up stronger, I thought that can be a very painful experience too, so I had a lot of fun incorporating my sort of grit and anguish into the song.
JEM Studios in Saratoga Springs, NY with James Mastrianni, mixing and mastering it. The single will be released both in a live version and an instrumental version.
Cassandra Kubinski and Sawyer Fredericks will be touring together this Fall.
Sawyer Fredericks and Cassandra Kubinski On Tour
October 9, 2024 – The Iron Horse, Northampton, MA – TIX
November 3, 2024 – The Linda, Albany NY – TIX
