Josephine Foster - Fairy Faithful Harmony - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Brand 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 'No Harm Done', a spacious and enveloping love letter of an album. Eight 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. InchThe Wheel of FortuneInch, nearly a title track by virtue of it's 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 feltSide A1 Freemason Drag2 The Wheel of Fortune3 Conjugal Bliss4 Love LetterSide B5 Sure Am Devilish6 Leonine7 How Come, Honeycomb?8 Old Saw Album Tracks 1. Freemason Drag 2. The Wheel of Fortune 3. Conjugal Bliss 4. Love Letter 5. Sure Am Devilish 6. Leonine 7. How Come, Honeycomb? 8. Old Saw

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 InchYou 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.InchInchWith her haunted, theatrical delivery, Foster cuts an arresting figure.Inch PitchforkInchOut of time yet timelessInch The Wire1 Hum Menina2 Sparks Fly3 Guardian Angel4 Old Teardrop5 Flask of Wine6 Gold Entwine7 Dali Rama8 Nun of the Above9 The Sum of Us All Album Tracks 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

This latest from the famed sax player features guests Esthero, Faith Evans, Phillip Bailey, Dwele, Ann Nesby, George Duke and George Benson. Features the singles InchShineInch and InchThe Total Experience.Inch Album Tracks 1. Shine (Featuring Esthero) 2. The Total Experience (Featuring George Duke) 3. Aquas de Marco (Waters of March) 4. Let It Go 5. In the Rain (Featuring Dwele) 6. Gonna Get It (Featuring Faith Evans) 7. Breathe 8. Love Song (Featuring Phillip Bailey) 9. Hypnotic (Featuring George Benson) 10. The Way She Walks 11. Dedication 12. Soft (Featuring Ann Nesby)