Colorado native Josephine Foster @damejosephinefoster grew up singing in school and church choirs. She dreamed to become an opera singer but when she moved to the big city to study she found herself most at home performing her own songs, still influenced often by classical art music but also the folkloric influences from growing up at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. After spending her 20’s in Chicago she migrated to Spain for over a dozen years performing and writing with her Spanish language bands Mendrugo and the Victor Herrero Band while still continuing to record frequently in Nashville a number of solo albums. Josephine’s music while deeply rooted to centuries old musical forms remains truly sui generis, wild and free, and her old world voice is the crown upon a expansive body of work.

As a follow up to her retro-futuristic synth album ‘Godmother’, Foster’s new 2023 solo record ‘Domestic Sphere’ takes in contrast a very intimate turn. An exploration of memory and human mortal s/human mortal spaces, it is a spare and soulful journey interwoven with her field recordings made in years of nomadicism. (out April 7 on Fire Records).
Check out this mix Josephine put together for Radio L’envie.

Tülay German - Burçak Tarlası
Victor Jara - El Derecho de Vivir en Paz
These Trails - These Trails
Clive Palmer - Swanoa Tunnel
Yıldız Yurtsever - Vardım Hint Eline
Eddie Head and Family - Down On Me
Congregacion - Arrebol
Lole Y Manuel - El río de mi Sevilla
Shirley Collins, Albion Country Band - Murder of Maria Marten
Elba Giron La Condesita del Folklore - ERES MALO MALO
John Denver - Rocky Mountain High
Maria Monti - Parole
Camaron De La Isla, Paco de Lucía - Vámonos Pa Casa - Sevillanas Rocieras
Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira
Mariachi Coculense de Cirilo Marmolejo - El Gavilancillo (The Young Hawk)
Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
Michael Hurley, Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones - Slurf Song

L'envie #151 :: Josephine Foster

Devour/Dull

asleep in uncanny valley

window open, welcome rain

orange room

the meeting

live off the floor, 2023

#dreamy #ethereal #lullaby #jazzy #softrock #indie #folk #canadian

sunkqueen

Unkind

I am learning how to use the analog synthesizer

rainy boot buckle ADSR wizard quest

shout out rory for recording and mixing and ooh la la ing

I freak it in the racecar 000

so basically for christmas I wrote renee a poem and then they turned it into an epics song. i do some little singing and guitar maybe even on this song. maybe even i saw how ableton works. its super cute. renee is an awesome friend and i liked sitting in the bathtub with her.

Unkind

rory.c