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29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

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Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Josephine Foster
Blood Rushing Fire Records

Article written by Ged M - Aug 31, 2012

She’s released albums of early 20th century folk blues, German lieder and Spanish folksong (with partner Victor Herrero), all delivered in an otherworldly soprano with operatic topnotes that remind you of her childhood ambition to be an opera singer. The horrifically pretentious notes quoted on the PR sheet – imagine words by a chai-drinking Wiccan who scribes for Spare Rib - suggest outsider music but, while the concept is a little offbeat (the story of the character Blushing), it’s also very accessible. Partly that’s the calibre of the band who recorded this with her in Colorado – Herrero, Paz Lenchantin, Heather Trost and Ben Trimble - and partly it’s the power of the songs.

‘Child of God’ has an incredible Velvet Underground swagger, a lazy lope of a rhythm that draws you along, and ‘O Stars’ has a folky rhythm topped with Trost’s seesawing violin, Herrero’s soothing Spanish guitar and Foster’s voice soaring operatically. The songs can range from the painfully intimate title track to the folk-meets-Spaghetti-Western ‘Panorama Wide’ and the discordant operatic rock of ‘Geyser’. It - and specifically Foster’s voice - takes a little getting used to and we may never be fully comfortable with some of the new-agey lyrics (“the city is our reservation” indeed) but after a few spins these songs show their stickability in that promiscuous music appreciation centre we call the brain.

Links:
http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=artists&artistid=00000000285
http://www.myspace.com/josephinefoster