Redolent of dawn in all its awakening complexity – it is, in fact, nearly impossible to conceive of a richer, more subtly accurate evocation of that daily yet never unmysterious nor mundane event than what Mr. Foster offers here – we have to admit that, once your correspondent played “Alchemical Connection” (officially dropping tomorrow, July 10th) on the office stereo, one of ‘those’ hushes fell over the premises as if beauty’s immortal representative had suddenly manifested in our midst. And while we’re not, of course, privy to what the actual source of inspiration was for this mesmerizing track, we are at least aware of the composer’s ‘career arc’ (oh such a dry, inhospitable phrase) that first turned our ears Montreal-ward with Your Favorite Enemies, the lush pop band of experimentalists that ran for a decade from the aughts through the teens and could drift with an aerialist’s precision from the atmospheric to the borderline abandonment of all-out rock’n’roll, so we’re at least not exactly surprised that a track of of this caliber, drfting through one’s consciousness as it does with something of a supernal intimacy, would emanate from one of The City of a Hundred Steeples’ most preemineent composers but … Continue reading STEREO EMBERS SINGLE PREMIERE & EXCLUSIVE LP ANNOUNCEMENT – “Alchemical Connection” from Ambient Psych Composer Alex Henry Foster’s New Album ‘A Measure of Shape and Sounds’