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class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been a fan of Lou Reed\u2019s music ever since I found that strange-sounding LP titled\u00a0Transformer\u00a0in the prime section of my father\u2019s vinyl collection when I was a kid. I was fascinated by that record, from the artwork to the stories behind the songs. And if I wasn\u2019t able to understand much \u2014 if anything \u2014 of what sounded like fragments of cryptic words as I grew up in the French part of Montreal city, it\u2019s Lou\u2019s poignant voice that truly guided me through, like a light shining in its own right. While I felt his fearless and defying tone and the freedom and integrity of his creative universe, it\u2019s somehow the emotional undertone transcending his music that captured me. There was an invisible element brightly glowing within his sonic expression that I found utterly moving when I first heard him, something indescribable, almost impossible to define, like some sort of a shadowing sorrow that wasn\u2019t dominated by any overpowering darkness. And I grew to also discover The Velvet Underground and his extensive body of work\u2026 New York, Warhol, Basquiat, Branca, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Swans, and everything else that would shape and form the imageries and visions of the child I was, stretching the boundaries of the otherwise impoverished and underprivileged reality I evolved in.<\/p>\n<p>If his\u00a0Metal Machine Music\u00a0album had a profound impact on my conception of writing and the aesthetic obsession I attach to it, it\u2019s when I heard the utmost purity and fabulous let go of his song\u00a0The Power of the Heart\u00a0that I set my conceptual structure free from my elusive need of control. It is then that I was able to foresee the transformative difference between the nature of welcoming sensations, as unfettered as they are, rather than try to commune through the reasoning parameters of my outbound invitation for others to conform into.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was as if the most talented and enduring of all illusionists was suddenly stepping into bright lights, revealing himself after a lifelong trick in which he had managed to evolve through the smoke and mirrors of the mysteries he let everybody else believe. And for the first time, there he was, as himself, stripped from the uniform he wore to keep his treasures from the unquenchable human obsession for what can\u2019t be defined, what can\u2019t be owned, what can\u2019t be understood, what can&rsquo;t be comprehended. True beauty had been there all along but had been kept from our devouring eyes in order to lay it down at someone\u2019s brazen feet, a person that saw him from the very beginning, unafraid of his grim or his luminescence, unbaffled by his well-crafted aura. That someone enlightened a path of her own, a reflective spirit that saw his lifetime sufferings find a journey leading home\u2026 At least that\u2019s how I like to see that song.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0The Power of the Heart\u00a0mine. Self-acceptance in an age of make-believes is what allows someone to find themselves, and it\u2019s once emancipated from 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\u00a0originator. Being liberated from the anguish of being seen for who I am is the reason why I didn\u2019t feel the pressure to mimic Reed\u2019s 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\u2019s love and respective creative expression, it would grow beyond its conceptualized embodiment as I began to enfranchise myself through it. It is in that moment that it wasn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>Liberating in its contemplation. Compassionate in its acceptance. Transformative in its incarnation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-41f45e10\" data-id=\"41f45e10\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-360b4b65 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"360b4b65\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Release Date<\/h3>\n<p><i>May 6, 2022<\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Lyrics and Music<\/h3>\n<p><i>Lou Reed<br \/>Alex Henry Foster<\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Produced by<\/h3>\n<p><i>Alex Henry Foster<br \/>Ben Lemelin<\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Additional Musicians<\/h3>\n<p><i>Ben Lemelin<br \/>Jeff Beaulieu<br \/>Sef Lemelin<br \/>Miss Isabel<br \/>Charles Moose Allicie<br \/>&amp;<br \/>Orchestre Symphonique de Drummondville<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Recorded at<\/h3>\n<p><i>Upper Room Studio<br \/>Quebec, Canada<br \/>&amp;<br \/>Echo Mountain Studio<br \/>Virginia, USA<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Label<\/h3>\n<p><i>Hopeful Tragedy Records<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4fc8307d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4fc8307d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c3e000c\" data-id=\"1c3e000c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-744f33bd elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"744f33bd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"The Power of the Heart\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/releases\/the-power-of-the-heart\/\" aria-label=\"Plus sur The Power of the Heart\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8462,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30249","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30249"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59611,"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30249\/revisions\/59611"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}