{"id":55162,"date":"2024-07-18T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/?p=55162"},"modified":"2024-08-08T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:57:08","slug":"le-soleil-alex-henry-foster-happy-to-finally-be-back-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhenryfoster.com\/ja\/le-soleil-alex-henry-foster-happy-to-finally-be-back-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"[Le Soleil] Alex Henry Foster, Happy to Finally Be Back At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Originally Published in Le Soleil on July 18, 2024.
Written by Ian Bussi\u00e8res.
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Used to leading several projects at the same time, singer-songwriter Alex Henry Foster, known in another life as the leader and singer of the alternative rock group Your Favorite Enemies, is happy to finally get back to work after a long period of forced inactivity.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter releasing the ambient album Kimiyo this spring, Foster is touring European festivals before returning to Quebec on July 29, when he will prepare to release another album, A Measure of Shape and Sound, and a U.S. tour this fall.\n

\n\u201cIt feels good, because in early 2023 I had open-heart surgery for a double heart valve transplant. It was supposed to last three hours, but it lasted ten. I had to have a lot of blood transfusions and they had to keep me alive with machines,\u201d says the Montrealer, who has lived in Drummondville for several years, via video conference from Germany.\n

\nFollowing this delicate operation, Foster spent a few months unable to speak and had lost a lot of motor skills. \u201cI couldn\u2019t read, couldn\u2019t write, couldn\u2019t play guitar\u2026\u201d he says.\n

\nIn short, it was a scenario out of a horror movie for the usually busy and creative artist he is. \u201cI gradually started playing music again as I regained my faculties. I have a less busy schedule than usual, because in the past, when I went on tour, it was six nights a week for three months.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis resumption of activities at his own pace will have allowed the artist who makes post-rock and ambient experimental music to focus again on a film project called Voyage \u00e0 la Mer, which he had started in 2010 and left unfinished.\n

\n\u201cKimiyo, which I recorded with the singer Momoka Tobari (who can be heard on a few songs from Your Favorite Enemies), is the first step of this project that I launched in Japan. It\u2019s a hyper ambient orchestral project in Japanese. I didn\u2019t give myself a chance!\u201d he laughs, talking about his album released in April and which nevertheless reached twelfth position on the Billboard Canadian albums chart and first for alternative albums.\n

\nA Measure of Shape and Sound promises to be in the same contemplative ambient vein, while the film will be out in spring 2025 with launches planned in a few cities in Quebec. \u201cWhen I needed to start working on my creative projects again, I brought in my partner Ben [Lemelin, bassist for Your Favorite Enemies],\u201d he notes.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecause if Your Favorite Enemies has been left aside for a few years, Foster is still lucky to continue working with the same musicians who are also his friends. St\u00e9phane “Sef” Lemelin, Isabelle “Miss Isabel” Paradis, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois “Jeff” Beaulieu and Charles “Moose” Allicie are still accompanying him in his new musical adventures.\n

\nIt is with them that he will soon begin writing his next album. “I still tour with the same gang even if it’s completely different music. I am lucky to do what I love and to be able to continue my “last summer” with my friends for all these years,” he illustrates.\n

\nAnd despite the presence of the entire “team”, there is no question of replaying Your Favorite Enemies material during his “solo” shows. “I want to be honest with myself and with the audience. “People ask me when Your Favorite Enemies is coming back, but I refuse to hold them hostage. Maybe one day, but not right away,” says the musician.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFoster has also launched two other major projects in recent years, a vinyl record pressing plant in Drummondville called Drummond Vinyle and a hotel in Tangier, Morocco, La Maison de Tanger.\n

\n\u201cDrummond Vinyle has been open since November and the whole team was trained at Third Man Records in Nashville,\u201d explains Foster, who knows the label\u2019s owner, famed musician Jack White, from running into him at festivals. The pressing plant works closely with artists and record labels.\n

\n\u201cWe can do lathe cuts [records made one at a time, in a blank disc rather than being pressed into vinyl by a metal stamp] and add screen printing on the product. Jack White was crazy about that, we had a common affinity,\u201d notes Foster.\n

\nThe hotel is a project that fell into Foster\u2019s lap in 2021, during the pandemic. \u201cIt\u2019s an eleven-room boutique hotel. I often went to Tangier to write and I had an incredible opportunity with COVID,\u201d he explains.\n

\nFoster emphasizes that his entourage was not sure about his hotel project when everything stopped on the planet. However, time has done things well and, three years after Foster and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Beaulieu bought the hotel, it has proven to be a great success.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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