"ALL I WANTED IS THE MOON", JOSEPHINE FOSTER (de "This Coming Gladness", Bo'Weavil) Em "This Coming Gladness" a folk de eco britânico de Josephine Foster voltou a encontrar-se com a angularidade dos arranjos que já havia conhecido na sua grande obra prima, o álbum "All the Leaves Are Gone", de 2004. E o resultado é de novo extraordinário. Na composição, há também belíssimos momentos e este "
December is list-making season. And for us music journalists, it is a time to look back on scores of albums, reflect upon the music and recapitulate our favorites. But this year, just like the last, we took this opportunity to flip that tradition upside down, asking the artists that influenced us what influenced them. The prompt was not limited to albums that came out in 2008. Nat Baldwin Extra Life - Secular Works Kurt Weisman - Spiritual Sci-Fi The Dead Science - Villainaire Skeletons - Money [...]

Josephine Foster This Coming Gladness ( Bo Weavil Recordings , 2008) Psych-folk / Avant-folk Son intrincados los caprichos del destino en el submundo indie, mientras el mercado acoge alegremente a decenas de cantautoras de voz y composiciones un tanto genéricas y efectistas, This Coming Gladness ha pasado desgraciadamente sin pena ni gloria por la blogosfera y redes sociales y ni siquiera ha conseguido una mención en algunos de los medios musicales más importantes. Hechos, cuanto menos, sorprendentes, máxime cuando Josephine ha conseguido con este [...]
Josephine Foster - Lullabye To All My laptop keeps running really slowly and it seems to correlate with the exact moment when this song came on so I'm gonna blame it on that and all the weird fairy tale Mixed Up Mother Goose gremlins in EGA glory/mania. The weird thing is that this baroque ain't digital at all, it's leafy and green, freaking out in the summer forest where there are probably elves, fairy tale shit. It's not as eerie as she has been, more sunny and earthy, paisley and [...]
No seu mais recente álbum (e que bonito trabalho, a propósito), Josephine Foster incluiu uma canção com o título "Sim Não", cuja letra se reparte entre o inglês e um português particularmente indecifrável (o que também não deixa de ser válido para o inglês, naquele registo semi-operático de Josephine). O português surge de vez em quando nas canções de artistas não lusófonos. Num esforço breve de
den wochenauftakt gilt es etwas erquicklicher zu gestalten, für mich, für dich, für alle. auf bo'weavil recordings komme ich immer wieder mal, denn feinste folkmusik wollen meine ohren. und heute ist so ein tag, an dem man dort angebotene songs hier zur verfügung stellen kann, um sich dort wieder rückzuversichern und einkaufen zu gehen. also, bitte. und somit sei gleich einmal an josephine fosters jüngsten (08er) output erinnert "this coming gladness", bestückt mit zehn zeitlosen, introvertierten, überaus spannenden neulingen: Josephine [...]
Josephine Foster tem novo álbum, "Gladness", e está de regresso a Portugal, para mais uma série de três concertos, já no próximo fim-de-semana: 9 de Outubro: Aveiro, Mercado Negro 10 de Outubro: Porto, O Meu Mercedes É Maior que o Teu 11 de Outubro: Lisboa, ZDB (*) (*) O concerto na ZDB insere-se na noite de celebração do 14º aniversário da galeria. Além de Josephine Foster, vai também haver

Tim Simmons - Leapish Moss Wood Path (2004) At the end of the day I will find a tree to sit and sink by. To ease into the soil and press my tissue up against its roots. The grits of my bone coarse against the soft bark and my breath warm against its leaves. A spirit stays grounded in space only as long as space stands still. Then it becomes grounded the evolution of every second, of every year until it falls into the sea. [...]
Photo: Ola To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~ William Blake / Auguries of Innocence ~ Growing up near the sea and spending many days wandering through the dunes, feeling the warm sand and the soft breeze of spring, has left me with a deep affection for its unique surroundings. A place that gives us the time and patience to [...]

Photo credit: Joanna Branson With her debut full-length Faces in the Rocks Nevada City songwriter Mariee Sioux has recorded one of this year's most breathtaking and haunting albums. I was lucky enough to witness her spine-chilling performance on a beautiful afternoon in Amsterdam several weeks ago. That afternoon her songs seemed enriched with spiritual tales and Native American imagery. Her songs worked very well with just Mariee Sioux on guitar (see video below). What struck me the most that day was that these songs that sounded so sweet and light-hearted on cd, [...]

ich habe mir inland empire ausgeliehen und der ging zunächst in dem normalen dvdschauprogramm nicht, im doofen mediaplayer aber schon, sogar mit menü und so. nach einiger zeit aber gab es einen bluescreen, vermutlich die grafikkarte. ich kenne mich mit sowas nicht aus, ich bin aufgeschmissen, glaube ich. daher höre ich musik, und zwar so (ich könnte auch einfach sagen: ich höre meine gesamte auf dem computer befindliche musik und das ist eher viel als wenig, auf shuffle und ohne skippen oder den ton ganz ausmachen zu dürfen). mal sehen wie lang. es ist ganz grauenhaft [...]
ALIENS : "Committed to Wind (live at KVRX)" [mp3] other ALIENS music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Jens Lekman : "Sipping on the Sweet Nectar" video [mov] from Night Falls over Kortedala other Jens Lekman music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Josephine Foster : "An die Musik" [mp3] from [...]
i never heard of Josephine Foster before but apparently she is a chameleon when it comes to style. Her fans, when waiting for her next release, dream of what could be next. A death metal ablum in Norwegian on banjo and harpsichord? Josephine is from Colorado and is known as "Nu-Folk." Her current release "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" is a collection of 19th century art songs from Schumann, Schubert, Brahms & Wolf with German lyrics taken from works by Goethe, Eichendorf, and other authors from the same period. Her beautiful voice combined with lute, electric guitar and [...]

Well, I posted a song by Josephine Foster yesterday, but I've since decided that she deserves a post all of her own - just for the sheer uniqueness of bringing out an album of modern folk versions of old Romantic German music. I don't really have time to give it a full description, but I don't think it would make much difference if I had a day to do it. I would probably use a few of the following words though: Intimate, lebensnah, mysterious, Abendland, Angstfreude, shivery. I don't think you have to understand the lyrics [...]
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The magazine, The Believer, put out a great compilation CD in the summer last year, a comp that came with the summer issue of the magazine. Containing covers and nothing but, you were treated to Devendra Banhart covering Antony and the Johnsons "Fistfull of Love", the Mountain Goats version of Silver Jews "Pet Politics", and Canadian Jim Guthrie (Mr "Hands in My Pocket" himself) doing The
With all of the frenzied attention Joanna Newsom’s forthcoming album has been getting, one artist who deserves more attention is Josephine Foster. The similarities between the two women are striking and manifold: they’re both part of Devendra Banhart’s ever-growing collective, they both energize and enliven folk in vexingly fresh ways, they're both talented instrumentalists, they both have voices that cling to you like Krazy Glue. Foster is probably even the weirder of the two, leaping into every album as an experiment. Her 2006 release, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing , found her improbably singing German songs composed [...]