Alternative, post-rock Alex Henry Foster releases today (April 16) its triple vinyl/double CD live and concert film Standing Under Bright Lights. Available at digital and streaming releases everywhere from Records of tragedy of hopethe project was recorded live in front of a sold out audience Club Soda (July 2019) while Foster headlined the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
Originally from Montreal and now residing in the Virginia Highlands, Foster’s 11-piece full-length concert, Standing Under Bright Lights, was named one of the top five must-see events by Canada’s national TV/radio broadcaster. CBC. Originally scheduled to be released on October 8, 2020, which would have been his late father’s birthday, Foster decided to use the extra time the global pandemic would give him to produce the recording and concert film.
With the main singles “Hannah’s son” And “Winter is coming»Which has received hundreds of thousands of plays on numerous playlists, Standing Under Bright Lights features all of the songs from Foster’s debut solo album, Windows in the Sky, which reached No. 1 multiple times on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, remaining in the Top 40 on the chart for a year after its release. The songs from that celebrated album were reimagined for the live recording as the band performed with a film projection produced by Foster. At nearly 2 hours and 30 minutes long, the concert at which Standing Under Bright Lights was recorded is now considered one of the best concerts of the 40th anniversary of the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
THE Vancouver Sun said: “This is the kind of live album that serves to establish artists” while American singer-songwriter acknowledges that the performance of Standing Under Bright Lights “captivated the audience every second with improvisation, emotion, darkness, poetic lyrics, vocal spoken word and experimental music that transported everyone to another plane. Its “pure energy and intimate revelation are now available to the world.”
“What a privilege to share once again with my friends of @AmerSongwriterthis time not only for my first concert at @MtlJazzFestivalbut also about how I wanted to approach the songs for the first time they would be played live,” Foster tweets.
With the aforementioned cover and a NRT Now “Next Big Thing” podcast interview, Foster was recently featured by Rolling stone, Prog Magazine, Glide Magazine, First HERE(CBC), Montreal Gazette, Interview under fire, Montreal Rocks, Sound vapors, Stronger than war, Music News FYI, PAN M 360, Rebel noise, All Rock and much more. Foster also shares his Spotify Playlist has BrooklynVegan.
Following the release of Standing Under Bright Lights, Foster and his band are preparing for an international tour with 23 dates in Europe should begin in May, pandemic permitting.
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