Little Life, by Josephine Foster

Little Life

by Josephine Foster

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1.	Shay Shay 01:15	buy track
2.	Stones In My Heavy Bag 02:01	buy track
3.	Charles In The Park 00:50	buy track
4.	Francie's Song 03:10	buy track
5.	Run Maroona 02:49	buy track
6.	Three Day Days 00:59	buy track
7.	Tom Peck, Neighbor Friend 02:29	buy track
8.	Birdo 02:39	buy track
9.	Warsong 00:56	buy track
10.	Hells Bells Are Ringing 01:29	buy track
11.	Little Life 03:44	buy track

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Little Life is a home recording made by Josephine Foster in 2001. Although she had been writing songs for years, the idea to record something was new to her as she had previously notated her music longhand.

Inspired by her work as a music teacher to young children, she recorded this collection of miniature songs to 4-track. Upon rediscovering records for children by American folk musician Ella Jenkins from her own youth, Foster began to play the ukulele in her teaching work. Thus many of the songs of Little Life were written upon that instrument and recorded with playful harmonic overdubs as though assembling a tiny nave ensemble. The subject of the songs were largely inspired by and dedicated to youngsters she knew although the subject matter ranges from personal to pure fiction.

The songs have a rhythmic feel, showing a variety of influences such as Tin Pan Alley, Afro-American chants, as well as the Seeger family collections of scores and recordings of children’s folk songs. Foster has said her hope was that her ” ditties” might encourage verse invention and group improvisation in a simple repetitive framework.

Recording Little Life helped to usher in a reformed and more personal manner of singing and songwriting for Foster, leaping down from her opera stage training to the hermitage of the classroom.

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released March 21, 2013

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Josephine Foster Colorado

Foster is a Colorado-born artist whose songwriting draws from far corners of the musical spectrum to form a truly singular body of work. She says her craft is strongly shaped by "Tin Pan Alley on my maternal side, rock and roll on my paternal side, Western folk music by birth, art-song and classical music via my adolescent passions ... more

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May 2

Brotfabrik

Frankfurt, Germany
May 3

Zionskirche

Berlin, Germany
May 10

BLÅ

Oslo, Norway
May 11

SPITZER

Vienna, Austria
May 21

Portland Arms

Cambridge, UK
May 22

Common Ground

Oxford, UK
May 28

Dabadaba

San Sebastián, Spain
May 29

Sala Lisa

Lisbon, Portugal

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