Prog Mag – Alex Henry Foster premieres video for Lou Reed’s The Power Of The Heart
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Catch a special live performance of The Power Of The Heart via Prog's Facebook page on Sunday at 7pm
Canadian post-rocker Alex Henry Foster and his band The Long Shadows have released a new video for their eight-minute plus cover of Lou Reed’s The Power Of The Heart which you can watch below.
The band will also be hosting a special live performance of the song which you can watch on the Prog Magazine Facebook page this Sunday at 7pm GMT.
« It took me years, streaming into the bleakest turbulences of my own inner voyage, to envision the prospect of making a monument of sincerity such as The Power Of The Heart mine. Self-acceptance in an age of make-believes is what allows someone to find themselves, and it’s once emancipated from the self-preservative escapism that one can navigate amongst the vestiges of their existence, which in turn leads one to simply be, as an individual and originator.
« Being liberated from the anguish to be seen for who I am is the reason why I didn’t feel the pressure to mimic Reed’s incarnation of the song, nor was I constrained by the burden of having to emulate his intimate intent. If my initial appropriation of the song stood as a homage to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson’s love and respective creative expression, it would grow beyond its conceptualised embodiment as I began to enfranchise myself through it. It is in that moment that it wasn’t a revision process anymore, but the result of a total abandonment designed by my own instinctive drift and surrendering.
« Noises became sounds, and musical arrangements evolved into some sort of spiritual uplift for me, turning it all into a celebration of what can’t be owned, measured, or defined, a boundless and infinite transformative ascension that can only be experienced once shared and given away. That is for me the true everlasting nature that is the power of the heart. »
Alex Henry Foster will also bring his Not All Wonders Have Been Lost tour to venues across the UK this June.
They will play:
Jun 21: London Oslo Club
Jun 22: Nottingham Bodega
Jun 23: Glasgow Broadcast
Jun 24: Huddersfield The Parish
Jun 25: Manchester The Deaf Institute
Jun 26: Bristol Thekla
JERRY EWING
20 mai 2022
The band will also be hosting a special live performance of the song which you can watch on the Prog Magazine Facebook page this Sunday at 7pm GMT.
« It took me years, streaming into the bleakest turbulences of my own inner voyage, to envision the prospect of making a monument of sincerity such as The Power Of The Heart mine. Self-acceptance in an age of make-believes is what allows someone to find themselves, and it’s once emancipated from the self-preservative escapism that one can navigate amongst the vestiges of their existence, which in turn leads one to simply be, as an individual and originator.
« Being liberated from the anguish to be seen for who I am is the reason why I didn’t feel the pressure to mimic Reed’s incarnation of the song, nor was I constrained by the burden of having to emulate his intimate intent. If my initial appropriation of the song stood as a homage to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson’s love and respective creative expression, it would grow beyond its conceptualised embodiment as I began to enfranchise myself through it. It is in that moment that it wasn’t a revision process anymore, but the result of a total abandonment designed by my own instinctive drift and surrendering.
« Noises became sounds, and musical arrangements evolved into some sort of spiritual uplift for me, turning it all into a celebration of what can’t be owned, measured, or defined, a boundless and infinite transformative ascension that can only be experienced once shared and given away. That is for me the true everlasting nature that is the power of the heart. »
Alex Henry Foster will also bring his Not All Wonders Have Been Lost tour to venues across the UK this June.
They will play:
Jun 21: London Oslo Club
Jun 22: Nottingham Bodega
Jun 23: Glasgow Broadcast
Jun 24: Huddersfield The Parish
Jun 25: Manchester The Deaf Institute
Jun 26: Bristol Thekla
JERRY EWING
20 mai 2022
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