New Album Releases: FAITHFUL FAIRY HARMONY (Josephine Foster) - Folk-Rock

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Artist:
Josephine Foster

Genre:
Folk-Rock

Total Time:
1:16:03

Record Label:
Fire Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes

Release Date
November 16, 2018

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

Product Description: Josephine raises a stained-glass lamp and shepherds us spelunking the depths of spirit in this four-part double album. Following the fame of her voice are choruses of winged entities (and a space shuttle) that ascend and descend a maze of spirituals: ritual prayers, blues laments, vestal hymns and jubilant benedictions. 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 & autoharp, this cycle of 18 new songs hearken back to various facets of Foster's anachronic oeuvre (the esoteric balladry of This Coming Gladness, native rhythms of Blood Rushing, somnambulist waltzes of I'm a Dreamer, the Shaker primitivism of Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead you). 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. Recorded, engineered and mixed by Andrija Tokic at his Nashville Bomb Shelter Studio, mastered by John Baldwin, and produced by Josephine herself.

TRACK LIST:

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1. Soothsayer Song (3:31)

2. A Little Song (3:38)

3. The Virgin of the Snow (6:38)

4. Pearl in Oyster (1:51)

5. Benevolent Spring (3:20)

6. Force Divine (2:40)

7. All Pales Next to You (4:43)

8. Lord of Love (7:11)

9. Eternity (3:54)

10. Indian Burn (3:55)

11. The Peak of Paradise (3:59)

12. Adieu Color Adieu (5:33)

13. Pining Away (5:11)

14. Challenger (4:04)

15. I Was Glad (3:03)

16. Shepherd Moon of Starry Height (4:23)

17. Little Lamb (3:37)

18. Faithful Fairy Harmony (4:52)

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