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Godmother LP/CD will be available on Fire records, January 28, 2022
GODMOTHER
| Unsaddled from the song of the open road, in the isolation of the first Covid-winter deep in Northern Colorado, Josephine Foster’s songbook evolves, and her album Godmother is disclosed: a circle held within the void; a gift that gathers what belongs to the giving. In this, her 19th album, Foster’s capstone finds orbit around a new celestial body: a giant Technics thrift store keyboard. This embrace of electronics uncovers new horizons within Foster’s repertoire. Imagine Conrad Schnitzler crossing paths with Cateono Veloso on the way to an Almodóvar black sand beach party; now split the vocal-atom between Karen Dalton and a Bobbie Gentry come out of long hiding, only to add a polyglot, secret grammar of the lung, unafraid to drop into Alice Coltrane style mantras, mid-song. Cooper Crain (Cave / Bitchin’ Bajas) recorded and mixed the album, subtly bringing into focus the ellipse of JF’s marbled brow and rippling wave. The resulting sunkissed degrees of permanence are simultaneously unlike any previous JF album, while still immediately of a whole within her extant body of work. – Kristafer Abplanalp |