Stephen Steinbrink – Disappearing Coin (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Stephen Steinbrink – Disappearing Coin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:18 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Western Vinyl

In 2019, Stephen Steinbrink discovered a short YouTube video of a street magician who approaches a highschooler walking home in Barstow, California. “Here, let me show you my idea,” he says, as he places a quarter on the kid’s hand. The magician performs some relaxed flourishes, and the coin vanishes. In silence, the kid stares at his hand at the nothing where there once, indisputably, was something, until his wonder finds a single word: “Cool.” The title of Disappearing Coin, the new album from Oakland songwriter Stephen Steinbrink, comes from this short clip. “When I look at it now,” he says, “I relate to the kid, who’s obviously uneasy in his body, and going through the experience of being a teenager in the early 2000s growing up in a bleak desert town like I did. I also relate to the coin, an inanimate disc of possibility. And I relate to the magician, an absurd facilitator of sending what is tactile and concrete into the wispy conceptual realm.” “I’ve watched it probably a hundred times,” he says. “It cracked me up but also blew my mind open the feeling of wonder I experienced watching this video became a guide as I navigated new ways of staying in the realm of what’s both real and magical.”

The album can be seen as a 42 minute session of show and tell, the manifestation of Steinbrink repeating the mantra of “Here, let me show you my idea” to himself over and over. Disappearing Coin is at once a welcome return for the veteran Steinbrink and the debut of a totally new artist, one who has found a new path to himself with new goals of openness, curiosity, and self-acceptance.

Tracklist:
01. Stephen Steinbrink – Opalescent Ribbon (03:11)
02. Stephen Steinbrink – If There’s Love in Your Heart (03:16)
03. Stephen Steinbrink – Cruiser (02:45)
04. Stephen Steinbrink – Nowhere Real (02:33)
05. Stephen Steinbrink – Pony (03:15)
06. Stephen Steinbrink – Glitch Eternity (02:07)
07. Stephen Steinbrink – Step’s Disappearing Coin (01:06)
08. Stephen Steinbrink – Cruiser (Reprise) (03:32)
09. Stephen Steinbrink – Cool and Collected (03:53)
10. Stephen Steinbrink – Comedy (03:24)
11. Stephen Steinbrink – Who Cares (03:28)
12. Stephen Steinbrink – Poured Back in the Stream (03:29)
13. Stephen Steinbrink – Addicted to a Dream (02:39)
14. Stephen Steinbrink – Nowhere Real (Reprise) (03:07)
15. Stephen Steinbrink – It Is What I Want, But Not What I Need (02:25)

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