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  • Josephine Foster 'Godmother'

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    Josephine Foster 'Godmother'

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    Josephine Foster 'Godmother'

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    A beautifully observed baroque masterpiece, part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk with ambient synths and Josephine Foster’s plaintive guitar. Godmother is a slowly unfolding song cycle that marries a myriad of previous musical escapades with electronic experiments.

    Exploring new horizons on this record, it sees Foster at her most expressive and hypnotic. 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.

    Discussing 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.”

    “With her haunted, theatrical delivery, Foster cuts an arresting figure.” Pitchfork

    “Out of time yet timeless” The Wire

    Tracklisting:
    1. Hum Menina
    2. Sparks Fly
    3. Guardian Angel
    4. Old Teardrop
    5. Flask of Wine
    6. Gold Entwine
    7. Dali Rama
    8. Nun of the Above
    9. The Sum of Us All
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  • Josephine Foster 'I'm A Dreamer' - Cargo Records UK

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    Josephine Foster 'I'm A Dreamer'

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    "It's a pretty much perfect set, a quiet masterclass in songwriting with melodies that find the sweet spot in unexpected places and a self-possessed beauty that only grows with every listen." Time Out 5*s

    "Her most orthodox album, perhaps, and by some distance her best." Uncut 8/10

    "As she slides across the notes she hits an ethereal sweetness at the top of her range..." The Wire

    "I'm A Dreamer is a game changer." Narc 4.5/5
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  • Josephine Foster 'No More Lamps In The Morning' - Cargo Records UK

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    Josephine Foster 'No More Lamps In The Morning'

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    Josephine Foster 'No More Lamps In The Morning'

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    She effortlessly dissolves barriers between herself and her fellow musicians, between music and listener, between language and expression" The Wire. Josephine 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 ValtýsdÃ"ttir'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. No More Lamps In The Morning'features Victor Herrero on Portuguese guitar and Gyða ValtýsdÃ"ttir on cello (tracks 4 and 6).

    Tracklisting:
    1. Blue Roses (words by Rudyard Kipling)
    2. A Thimbleful Of Milk
    3. My Dove, My Beautiful One (words by James Joyce)
    4. The Garden Of Earthly Delights
    5. No More Lamps In The Morning
    6. Second Sight
    7. Magenta
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