Jeffrey Foucault - The Universal Fire
Review
His first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.
Augmenting Foucault's all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.
Tracklisting
1. Winter Count< |
>2. The Universal Fire 04:59< |
>3. Solo Modelo 03:54< |
>4. Monterey Rain< |
>5. Moving Through< |
>6. Crushed Ice and Gasoline< |
>7. Night Shift< |
>8. East of the Sunrise< |
>9. Sometimes Love< |
>10. Woodsmoke |
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