Canadian musician, author, producer, and composer, Alex Henry Foster, is headed to Oakland on October 11th to play The New Parish. Figureskater recently spent some time with Foster to discuss his latest album, A Measure of Shapes and Sounds, and learn more about what we can expect with his upcoming live show.
Tune in on Tuesday, October 8th at 9pm to hear the interview.
A Measure of Shape and Sounds, is an intimate journey of its own, representing a profound personal breathe-in made of several layers of guitar loops, reverberations, resonances, and oscillations juxtaposed together to create a sonic multi-directional contemplative maelstrom. Purposely recorded live to capture as direct a flow as possible, the songs embodied at that exact moment carried their human disposition not only to abandon oneself to the motion but to become one with it.
Instrumental by choice and minimalist by design, it was capital for Foster that A Measure of Shape and Sounds stood as its own living organism, not as a faire-valoir or add-on to the growing entity that Voyage à la Mer was becoming.
Formerly the frontman for Juno Awards nominee Your Favorite Enemies, Alex Henry Foster released his first solo album Windows in the Sky in 2018. The album is a “dreamy blast of post-rock” (NME) that “brings to mind artists like Hammock and Asche & Spencer with heaping helpings of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky”. His second album consists of a live reinterpretation of his solo material, recorded at a sold-out performance at the 40th Festival de Jazz de Montreal.
