Name: Domestic Sphere
Brand: Josephine Foster

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FIRELP684

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Limited edition

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2023-04-07

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Josephine Foster

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Folk

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Fire Records

Fire Records is an independent record label headquartered in London, England, UK. Founded in the mid 80s, Fire Records has been a prominent force in the music industry for decades. They have released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub, Spacemen 3, Blue Aeroplanes, and many other influential artists. In the early 90s, the label was home to notable acts such as Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, and Urge Overkill.With a rich history of discovering talent and nurturing their careers, Fire Records remains dedicated to supporting groundbreaking musicians across various genres. Their diverse roster showcases both established names and emerging talents who push boundaries and challenge conventions.

American folk and psychedelic singer-songwriter from Colorado.
Josephine Foster is an acclaimed American artist known for her unique blend of folk and psychedelic music. Hailing from Colorado, Foster has captivated audiences with her soulful vocals and poetic songwriting. With a career spanning over two decades, she has released numerous albums that showcase her versatile talent and artistic vision. Whether performing solo or collaborating with other musicians, Foster's music transcends genres and transports listeners to a world of introspection and emotion.
With each album, Josephine Foster continues to push the boundaries of traditional folk music, infusing it with elements of psychedelia and experimental sounds. 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.

For 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.

Domestic Sphere, 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.

A 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.

Domestic Sphere

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