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Her hauntingly beautiful voice resonates with authenticity, drawing inspiration from diverse musical influences such as blues, country, and classical music. Known for her introspective lyrics and captivating melodies, Foster's songs have a timeless quality that speaks directly to the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"perlas-rsd-2024","title":"Perlas - RSD 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n                            This product is a Record Store Day exclusive title and is not available to pre-order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy in-store: 8am, 20\/04\/2024 (Record Store Day).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy online: 8pm, 22\/04\/2024. (Subject to availability).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            Don’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. 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Now back home in the mountains of Colorado, Josephine’s 20-year journey to this new nirvana becomes enthralled further with a symphony of synths that sound like they are played in some neighbouring netherworld, through cotton gauze. It’s music that’s devotional, spiritual, a fitting soundtrack for any journey within or without, a means to experience places and vibrations beyond the boundary of time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscussing the record, Josephine explains “You may notice me travelling a bit further sonically from our precious earth, aspiring to rise into broader astral perspective, to contemplate the light and origins of it all, as I do believe there is a grand source that is the sum of it all, us all. Performing all the parts on this recording, you may sense me focussing gestures of my singing into the instrumentation, which is a very great relief indeed, as the voice has such grand dreams to be set free.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50445534396747,"sku":"1137393","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50445534789963,"sku":"1137394","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b92f316f-3279-4530-84de-2d6b56b2c7b6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727040256"},{"product_id":"domestic-sphere","title":"Domestic Sphere","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor her austere new solo album, Domestic Sphere, Josephine Foster performs solely with her electric guitar and then subverts the usual range of her voice to embody other frequencies and sounds beyond the surface layer of the songs. She communes so completely with every sound on the record, with the past and the future, animals and insects and birds, those so tenderly dead, and those of us who are alive. Listening to the record is a transcendent experience. It's an exorcism, one that exorcises you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomestic Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e, produced by Foster and collaborator Daniel Blumberg, is an altar cloth of songs stitched together as liturgical music for a restless homestead, whose values insist simply that everything is music and that our daily life is a sacred, innately creative practice. In such a world creaking door reveal natural orchestras with wailing cats in service of melodic collaborations with Tennessee songbirds, Foster's world is an extra-sensory radio play in two acts, where songs overlay structures like creeping vines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA seance by song, Josephine channels sounds from her interior and exterior landscapes, whether integrating field recordings reflecting daily life in a Spanish village and other moments in her life as a nomadic musician, or, as in one tender cameo, the voice of her great-grandmother comes from the other side. These songs are vigils, melodies sung intently, to be set aflame and sung off with the wind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50453798617419,"sku":"2008230","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50453798945099,"sku":"2008231","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0-1_4943ca6b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727177048"},{"product_id":"blood-rushing","title":"Blood Rushing","description":"\u003cp\u003eTenth anniversary reissue of Josephine Foster’s lauded ninth album \u003ci\u003eBlood Rushing\u003c\/i\u003e. The North American Colorado based singer-songwriter has lent her warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to nearly two decades of self-produced recordings. Foster’s songs are rooted in early American folk-blues as well as classical art song and Tin Pan Alley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rock-ballet chanté, the music is set to a Pueblo drum's metapulsing Pan-American heartbeat. Recorded in Colorado by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes) with the collaboration of her partner Spanish guitarist Victor Herrero, and musicians Paz Lenchantin (The Entrance Band), Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Ben Trimble (Fly Golden Eagle). 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Following from the success of her previous critically acclaimed album \u003ci\u003eBlood Rushing. Dreamers\u003c\/i\u003e have dreamt for as long as domes have fallen, bobbing musical swells from Stephen Foster to the Everlys. Now here comes that beautiful dreamer Josephine and, sugarpie, she's not the same. She has donned her magenta vestiments, dreaming back, with mossy verses that haunt like a name never called. It's not just Jo and her shadow, though, this time around-she's got a gaggle of Nashville cats on hand to coax spidery cathedrals from these campfire jams. Folks will want to call this her Harvest-with its harp and pedal steel, its double bass and cascading piano. And it's true, \u003ci\u003eI'm a Dreamer\u003c\/i\u003e beckons with a gentle hand, each note clear and crisp so that one feels each grain. Amid such delicate charms, however, lurk muses with rotting flesh, ugly ducklings and Djuna Barnes, wooden floors upon which no babies will be rocked. Wily is the heart that wanders filled with duende and desire, that rides the thigh like a parlor guitar when a strap just isn't handy. These are songs comfortably at home in salon or saloon, dreams deep enough to bury your dread - as sorrowful, as sexy, as stirring a set of songs as anybody's dreamt up in ages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50491985133899,"sku":"368575","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e8a238a7-2a61-4c15-b141-c6653c7548fc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727690226"},{"product_id":"anda-jaleo-perlas","title":"Anda Jaleo \/ Perlas","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing together both of Josephine Foster and the Victor Herrero Band's Spanish albums in one place, with a previously unreleased track. Anda Jaleo was originally released in 2010. Federico Garcia Lorca's popular folk song collection \"Las Canciones Populares Espanolas\" was banned under Franco's dictatorship and today the music survives but marginally within the Spanish sub-conscious. Taking their cue from Lorca and La Argentinita's infectious 1931 recording of the songs, Josephine Foster and her partner Spanish musician Victor Herrero arranged the poetically rich collection for their acoustic band, formed while living in the Grenadine Sierra. Anda Jaleo is the band's live recording of \"Las Canciones\"; a visceral celebration of the persistence of popular anonymous song. This new edition includes an additional track not featured on the original release, an interpretation of 'Sones de Asturias'. La colección de \"Canciones Populares Españolas\" recopiladas y armonizadas por Federico García Lorca fue censurada en tiempos de Franco, y hoy en día la música sobrevive aunque de una manera vaga en el subconsciente del pueblo español. Inspirados por la contagiosa grabación de las canciones de Lorca y La Argentinita de 1931, Josephine Foster y su compañero el músico español Víctor Herrero han arreglado esta poética y rica colección para su banda acústica , formada mientras vivían en la sierra de Granada. Anda Jaleo es la grabación en directo de su versión de \"Las Canciones\"; una celebración visceral de la canción popular anónima y su persistencia. Following from Anda Jaleo, Josephine Foster and the Victor Herrero Band created a superb follow-up entitled Perlas (Pearls). It is a jewel of a collection, with songs and poems selected by Josephine herself, gathered from dusty old scores and brought vividly to the present with warm performances full of flesh-and-blood emotion. Made with a variety of stringed instruments and simple percussion, the songs were recorded live in the studio on to analogue tape by Paco Loco in Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain. Foster breathes new life into timeless traditional melodies, drawing from the Spanish-folk traditions of Castile, the Basque, Santander and the Costa Brava.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50493066182987,"sku":"389320","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/91a08d51-0373-4db3-aa92-91bd3e8809da_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727695346"},{"product_id":"no-more-lamps-in-the-morning","title":"No More Lamps In The Morning","description":"\u003cp\u003eJosephine Foster's 'No More Lamps In the Morning' is a new folk route, a stripped down starsailor vector connecting heller to highwater. Foster, on nylon string guitar, and husband Victor Herrero, accompanying on Portuguese guitar, together weave intimate readings of songs spanning Foster's songwriting career including selections from recent albums \"This Coming Gladness\" (2008) and \"I'm a Dreamer\" (2013) and back to Born Heller (2004). Foster's new route is a free, chromatic music, a tuneful montana of mind—an expansive harmonic space dominated by Rif mountain on the horizon. As highwater as the music is, as broad the stylistic palette of the musicians, the music really exists in service of the lyrics. Two of the songs on No More Lamps are poems by Rudyard Kipling and James Joyce given musical settings by Foster. The rest arguably are musical settings of her own poems strengthened in a fiery crucible of guitars (and on 2 tracks Gyða Valtýsdóttir's cello) in which dissonant notes bend and quaver as wirefork embers, dying without affecting the glowing tonal fire which unites contrary forces in a Moroccan speakeasy. She and Herrero have performed, for an audience of burros, concerts of Federico Garcia Lorca poems set to music. A music of wandering and a music of roots. An impermanent tradition passed down for generations. Recorded live to tape by Henry Hirsch and Patrick Higgins at Future-Past Studios, Hudson, NY, in February 2014, the record was mixed by Patrick Higgins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50493587063115,"sku":"397587","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50493587554635,"sku":"397588","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/db03ad7f-c53e-4ee9-b668-9ead7387279a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727699090"},{"product_id":"no-harm-done","title":"No Harm Done","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrand new album from Colorado’s freewheelin’ melodist Josephine Foster. Revolving between her adopted Spain and her native American West, Josephine was stationed this spring in Nashville with maverick guitarist and comrade-in-arms Matthew Schneider. The result: \u003ci\u003eNo Harm Done\u003c\/i\u003e, a spacious and enveloping love letter of an album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight new slow-burning songs branch forth from idiosyncratic country folk blues, sung with sibylline wit and a hint of the absurd, awash in sensually anachronic lyricism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wheel of Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, nearly a title track by virtue of its refrain: 'No harm will come\/if there's no harm done', are words of a homebound wanderer finding refuge in healing stillness with her beloved, having 'time to kill' in the midst of 'hard times to feel at home'. All delivered with calm sagacity upon the pedestal of Mr. Schneider's pedal steel and underscored by a knowing trebled chorus in Foster's lower register. Going nowhere never felt like so righteous of a destination before.\u003cbr\u003eDevotion in all its permutations, spiritual to carnal, are seamlessly explored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConjugal Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e, overtones of the 12-string and autoharp gently interplay, sounding like some unearthed Carter family wedding hymn (it bears the subversive subtitle '69' ) while \u003ci\u003eHow come, Honeycomb?\u003c\/i\u003e bounces low in the hips like a sultry old music hall number à la Harry Nilsson. The obliquely sapphic \u003ci\u003eLeonine\u003c\/i\u003e, it's unquiet harp scaling right out of ancient Lesbos, dreams of a kingless land; in \u003ci\u003eSure Am Devilish\u003c\/i\u003e, a stargazer humbly confesses to a lowercase lord. \u003ci\u003eOld Saw\u003c\/i\u003e, the mesmeric album closer, is a medium's petition to cross the threshold and merge with the holy spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosephine's enigmatic voice captured once more by frequent co-producer Andrija Tokic in his analog Bomb Shelter studio, where layers of her guitar, piano, organ entwine with Schneider's 12-string, pedal steel and electric bass to rouse a spectral yet full blooded band. The ensuing cycle of songs pulse and glow within the ruins and deep fundamental roots of American song.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50496436601163,"sku":"1100861","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50496437387595,"sku":"1100862","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/125ca21b-1459-4636-b0e3-09393028fbaa_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727720804"},{"product_id":"a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing","title":"A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) is an unusual album, first because it does things with classical music that aren’t usually done. 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The edges of the natural world are revolving backdrops from which our narrator perches upon symbolic precipice or saunters desolate snow-blanched forest, exploring eternal themes of mortality and morality, beneath the moon and in occasional dialogue with a mysterious lord of love, an ambiguous mystical figure. Accompanying herself on guitar, piano, organ, harp and autoharp, this cycle of 18 new songs hearken back to various facets of Foster's anachronic oeuvre (the esoteric balladry of \u003ci\u003eThis Coming Gladness\u003c\/i\u003e, native rhythms of \u003ci\u003eBlood Rushing,\u003c\/i\u003e somnambulist waltzes of \u003ci\u003eI'm a Dreamer\u003c\/i\u003e, the Shaker primitivism of\u003ci\u003e Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You\u003c\/i\u003e). Celestial humor and devastating innocence are delivered with contributions from Victor Herrero (lead guitars), Gyða Valtýsdóttir (cello), Chris Scruggs (pedal steel), Jon Estes (bass), as well as cameos by members of The Cherry Blossoms and others. 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Critics scratched their heads and usually resorted to comparisons of past artists, like ol Grace Slick and her Great Jefferson Society, Fairport Convention (but which era? surely Judy Dyble's early reign?), and at best, Shirley Collins. A few fans attempted to connect the record to even more obscure \"freak folk\/rock\" like Mellow Candle, Fear Itself, or Trees. \u003ci\u003eAll the Leaves are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e was made by unique personalities not concerned with influences or copying any bygone era. Surely, some things are in our DNA or even early childhood, as Josephine Foster's roots in opera manifest themselves as much as any other influence in this organic song cycle. 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