Latest news on the upcoming four track live album from the remarkable Alex Henry Foster.
Alex Henry Foster’s forthcoming live album, A Nightfall Ritual, captures the very special final show of his post-surgery comeback tour in 2024.
We know the intense power of Alex Henry Foster live. Manchester’s Deaf Institute submitted back in 2022. There’s a new live album on the way. The album runs for 45 minutes and features four songs, including two new ones and two completely reimagined extended versions of earlier tracks. Recorded during his concert in Cologne, Germany, on 27th July 2024, the 4 songs evoke those confusing sensations that come with finding oneself in an uncanny form of emotional suspension, where time seems to be floating between its own auspicious maelstrom and dystopian reality, vacillating through peaceful calm and raging let go.
About the album, Foster says: “A Nightfall Ritual refers to every moment with which we define the nature of our faith and hopelessness in the colors of mornings to come.“
The album sees Foster and his Shadows display their rich, multi-layered wall of sounds with all the passion and mastery they’re now well-known for. The sound of a vivid dramatic honesty that comes with the singer’s comeback into the lights after surviving an emergency heart surgery necessitating a double graft two years ago.
A Nightfall Ritual promises a devotionally intense and sonically rich universe for Alex Henry Foster’s long-awaited upcoming album, due this fall. The first single, I’m Afraid, reached #1 on Prog Magazine’s Tracks of the Week. We now have The Son Of Hannah as a second taster of the album.
When asked why he was returning to The Son of Hannah , Foster responded: “… there’s a very intimate connection to its nature and the undertone that led me to write the song “I’m Afraid”. I don’t think I would have been able to explore, much less publicly display what resides within me, if it wasn’t for what The Son Of Hannah has evolved into.”
Alex also explains how The Son Of Hannah “is a perfect representation of that personal evolution. Its initial incarnation was a reflection of my failure as a son while exposing the loss of my faith in joy and rebirth. I was on the bleak side of the mirror, looking at my father’s life as a whole, from drifting despair to high cheer. I had no cheer within me, and I thought I was all despair.”
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