A hundred days until Christmas. This countdiwn begins in earnest. Of course, I don't entirely know its exact shape yet, there are great records that haven't been released. But they'll be 100 great and varied albums. I've listened to so many wonderful ones already and there are surey more to come. Let's start with Josephine.
This year's Jana Horn. This year's Joanna Newsome. Sybille Baier. Karen Dalton. Take your pick. This year's Folky oddball. Nutty fruitcake.
I like a bit of Nutty Folk Fruitcake. Josephine Foster wins this Spring's best in breed Nutty Folk Fruitcake with latest album Domestic Sphere. It's a record which pushes the boat out in every respect. Even for that category.
Josephine's been around for a while. She hails from Colorado. Most of her previous records have been field recordings. This one has birdsong backing and eerie atmospheres and sound effecta throughout . She has clearly naturally leaned to the strange since hatching from her maverick egg way back when.
She's previously released German Lieder, collections of Emily Dickinson poems, written lyrics in Spanish and ventured into Psych-Folk. Unorthodox as a natural inclination.
Domestic Sphere is slightly difficult to describe. It mostly involves Josephine warbling tunelessly over shapeless Folk dirges. But that is I have to say, a very, very good thing. This can be safely categorised as Outsider. Music It effortlessly ticks all of the requisite boxes of this genre. It will be a record I return to with great enthusiasm on a regular basis..
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