{"id":55012,"date":"2024-06-01T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/?p=55012"},"modified":"2024-08-08T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:59:35","slug":"the-obelisk-notes-from-freak-valley-2024-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/ja\/the-obelisk-notes-from-freak-valley-2024-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[The Obelisk] Notes from Freak Valley 2024: Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"55012\" class=\"elementor elementor-55012 elementor-54856\" 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-46ddf12f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"46ddf12f\" 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-4d820a5b\" data-id=\"4d820a5b\" 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-6edd0b06 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6edd0b06\" 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<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Notes from Freak Valley 2024: Day 2<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60315774 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60315774\" 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>Originally Published in The Obelisk on June 1, 2024.<\/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-b9872a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b9872a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-featured-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=\"768\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theobelisk-default-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-55013\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theobelisk-default-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theobelisk-default-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theobelisk-default-2-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\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-4a4c55ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4a4c55ba\" 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>Including Foster himself, Alex Henry Foster played as a full six-piece band, The Long Shadows, featuring one drummer and a second kit, a keyboardist\/saxophonist\/laptopist\/vocalist, two guitars in addition to Foster\u2019s own, and a lone bassist. Clearly the former Your Favorite Enemies frontman puts texture into consideration in his work. After the first song, which featured the first bowed guitar of the weekend, Foster explained that he was supposed to play last year but had a medical crisis, then talked about being nervous and the community of the festival making him feel at home, and so on, and was very much the bandleader with a music stand, a shaker and other elements coming and going, keyed for resonance. A depth of arrangement was fair enough for material with such breadth, and the heavy-adjacent-but-not-beholden-to-genre post-emo progressivism was fluid in its reach and various builds, had a density of vibe [&#8230;] I went in back and sat for a bit, watched the campers coming and going, and that was fine. Fine. 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