Browse by Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	This Coming Gladness
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 031CD

This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de sičcle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labelling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson.

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	This Coming Gladness
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 031LP

Previously released on CD by Bo' Weavil Recordings, now available on vinyl. This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de sičcle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labeling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson.

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 068CD

"Hazel Eyes is an invitation to get lost in the wide-eyed acreage of song throughout the ages -- a bent and intuitive collection of supernatural balladry. Earthen hymns, cosmic madrigals, flapper blues and acid folk are sewn into one luminescent patch from one of America's most adventurous and pioneering songstresses. Self produced in the studio with an array of unusual instruments and eclectic arrangements, Hazel Eyes is a fearless collection of 14 self penned originals to stir the spirited souls of nymphs and shepherds alike. First widely available solo release after 2004's acclaimed album with her rock band, The Supposed, and her debut duet with Jason Ajemian as Born Heller."

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 079CD

"Over the course of just a few years, Josephine Foster has captivated audiences & critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry (Born Heller), fiery psych rock gestalt (All The Leaves Are Gone) to the voice of an outsider folk siren (Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You). The two constants are the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice & the bravery of her iconoclastic spirit. For anyone else, what lies inside her latest offering, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, might be a freakish turn but for Josephine Foster this is a grand part of a continual movement. And so it goes, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is a deeply absorbing, magical reconstruction of 19th century miniature German art song -- the intimate sibling to operatic arias customarily performed in the parlor. The album floats in a wash of blissed out voice and electric guitar in an almost dreamlike fashion through a salon of her own invention. In a music where sacred cows roam the pastures a plenty, Foster pays tribute -- on her own terms -- and in the process makes a case for German as a new found romance language."

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