Josephine Foster + Stella Kola + Ceremonial Abyss
Sat, Apr 06
|Epsilon Spires
A mezzo-soprano whose unorthodox arrangements fuse folk with the avant-garde, Josephine breathes new life into archaic forms while embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America. Stella Kola create shape-shifting psych-folk ballads +ambient tape collage by Ceremonial Abyss
Time & Location
Apr 06, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Josephine Foster is a Colorado composer and performer whose “music plays games with our ideas of time and space” says The Guardian. The Nashville Scene describes her work a ”fusion of art song and American folk music” and the former opera student is “known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America, and has lent her characteristic mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to over two decades of recordings” writes Blank Forms.
Josephine has released some twenty albums, each song cycle drawn from her own singular songbook, performed solo or leading various ensembles (occasionally under band guises: Mendrugo, the Supposed, Born Heller.) Peripheral but not insignificant are her unorthodox arrangements of 19th century German Lieder, the folkloric collection of Lorca, or her musical settings of Dickinson and other poets. Foster is a poet herself, as well as visual artist. On her latest offering Domestic Sphere , Josephine…
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