{"id":50788,"date":"2024-04-08T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/mission-statement-revolution\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T17:09:03","slug":"mission-statement-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/mission-statement-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"[Edition 117] Mission Statement &#038; Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"50788\" class=\"elementor elementor-50788 elementor-50498\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-44f0ddea elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"44f0ddea\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\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-6f14c6d4\" data-id=\"6f14c6d4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\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-2486f886 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2486f886\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mission Statement &amp; Revolution<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27aa0fed elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"27aa0fed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-842a3a8 elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/fr\/2024\/04\/08\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>avril 8, 2024<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-202b3c4 elementor-inline-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-clock\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>1:29 pm<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0066fb5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0066fb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6311.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-50790\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6311.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6311-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6311-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6311-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3720a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f3720a3\" 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<p>Being a little more aligned with my inner self now \u2013 thanks to my connection with the water and for having slowed things down considerably \u2013 I started to listen to some of the songs I was contemplating digging into for the upcoming album, with a completely different perspective. I\u2019m realizing just how far off I was, how I had lost my way. If it could be a frustrating admission at this point of the process, it\u2019s quite the contrary to me actually, as it means that I have a much clearer vision of what I want to explore, express, and share with that particularly significant post-surgery record. Only for that, I don\u2019t perceive what we have previously accomplished as a total waste of effort. I\u2019m more enthusiastic about the long creative emotional sufferings to come than I\u2019ve been comfortable with the affective numbness I was inhabited with during the recording sprint I\u2019ve been through. Again, it means something special is bourgeoning within me. For me, if conception has always been utterly painful, its delivery has a meaning that I can\u2019t explain with words, especially knowing that once it\u2019s born, alive, honest, and heartfelt, art will keep on blooming way beyond the very source of its inspiration.<br \/><br \/><br \/>Clarity is a strange sensation. I guess it\u2019s because it requires a substantial measure of self-abnegation to be able to see details that your fears, your ego, your denial or pretension have prevented you from seeing, or from discerning before. For me, it started when the members of my management family came to visit and we played a few songs we had crafted for them to hear. I wasn\u2019t comfortable and kept on explaining what was wrong with the tracks. I realized that it wasn\u2019t about the fact that I wasn\u2019t happy with the songs; I was ashamed in many ways. It\u2019s not that the songs were bad or anything, far from it. It wasn\u2019t me. It was somebody else\u2019s bastardization of my music \u2013 and I\u2019m not talking about Mikko\u2019s work, but mine. It was a parody, absurdity, a travestization of sorts. And I don\u2019t know why but I decided to play them my version of the song \u201cArchitect of Time\u00a0\u00bb. It\u2019s probably some of the most honest lyrics I\u2019ve ever written. It\u2019s about losing faith, a kind of conscious and assumed state of personal desperation. The second the song ended Bill, who had remained silent up to that point, said: \u201cThat is you Alex and that song is your mission statement for the record.\u201d Not only was he right, but what he mentioned was \u201cit\u201d. Jennie and Michael went in the same direction, insisting on the importance of making it my record and reminding me that I was a consequential artist, not a product. And Jackson took me apart after to encourage me to keep on following my guts and instinct.<br \/><br \/><br \/>Therefore, listening back to some of our initial writing sessions, I could perceive the nature of the mission statement Bill was referring to. I found a sense of purposeful nostalgia in those songs, a type of non-fatalistic acceptance of the profound damage defining the heart. There\u2019s also a high level of self-consciousness regarding the sorrows that live behind the eyes of a mourning soul, an awareness of the passage between an everlasting night made of total bleakness and the very first sign of a new morning luminosity we almost lose hope into. It\u2019s all there, all over the lyrical content. I cannot only see it, but I can also feel it as if my ability to hear, see, smell and touch has been heightened a tenfold, waiting for me to have the courage to speak it up, as I do now. I always found it puzzling that the sole fright I ever had creatively has been related to letting myself be heard. It\u2019s not about the voice, nor about singing in itself. It\u2019s about exposing my heart for what I am. Listening back to the lifeless versions of the songs we had crafted in the 3 weeks of production, we could hear it was only about that\u2026hiding. That\u2019s why it reminded me of my tenure with Your Favorite Enemies. It was all about that; standing in the shadow of the band, too afraid of the light. It took me years to understand that and the reason why \u201cWindows in the Sky\u201d radiates with so much freedom&#8230; It\u2019s the sound of emancipation from structures, forms, conventions, and formats, but mainly my need for security. Just like I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/i-want-security-i-need-security-what-is-security\/\">in one of my previous studio diary entries<\/a>, it\u2019s hard to stay away from what has been a lifestyle for so long. You need to be extremely violent with yourself to remain on your path. Reconnecting with those songs is as brutal as it is limpidly evocative of those inner struggles.<br \/><br \/><br \/>It\u2019s even more obvious as I\u2019m listening to a never-released song on repeat called \u201cMy Revolution\u201d while writing to you this morning. Some of the lyrics are:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f13f61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f13f61\" 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<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cI have wandered for years, looking to find a place to lay down my revolution, to shine beyond the distance from my fear of living. Sensation that keeps on letting me grow apart a heart that should have bloomed with wonders. While I\u2019m standing afar, drifting away, turning a little more into a shadow with each whisper, I\u2019m staring at the sun through old memories\u2026 awaiting a Revolution that never comes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae9690a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ae9690a\" 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<p>That sounds pretty optimistic, right?!? Well, at least for me it is, as it\u2019s that sort of clarity that brings me back to my X mark. It\u2019s that level of honesty that reminds me to \u201cbe\u201d. That is my ultimate \u201cmission statement\u201d\u2026 That\u2019s My Revolution!!!<br \/><br \/><br \/>And it\u2019s amazingly promising\u2026!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-209bd96 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"209bd96\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;vimeo&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"elementor-video-iframe\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" title=\"Lecteur vid\u00e9o vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/932153796?color&amp;autopause=0&amp;loop=0&amp;muted=0&amp;title=1&amp;portrait=1&amp;byline=1#t=\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5edae946 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"5edae946\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c85a7c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7c85a7c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ahf_signature-full.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-42736\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ahf_signature-full.png 941w, https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ahf_signature-full-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ahf_signature-full-768x175.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-459652b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-navigation\" data-id=\"459652b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-navigation.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Navigation de publication\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__prev elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__next elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/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; 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