ALEX HENRY FOSTER SHARES MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE POWER OF THE HEART
SPECIAL LIVESTREAMED PERFORMANCES OF THE POWER OF THE HEART TO TAKE PLACE ON SUNDAY, MAY 22
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LISTEN TO THE POWER OF THE HEART HERE
TORONTO, ON – May 20, 2022 - Today, Montreal alternative, independent DIY artist, Alex Henry Foster, shares the conceptual music video for his cover of Lou Reed's The Power of The Heart. Released on May 6 via Hopeful Tragedy Records, the single has already amassed over 20K streams and was hailed as a "dreamlike and intense cover" by Rolling Stone, while Louder/Prog Magazine called the cover "essential listening" and praised Foster for his "ambition to breathe new life into Lou's work." Watch The Power of The Heart video here.
To celebrate the release, Foster - along with his band, The Long Shadows - will be giving two special livestreamed performances of The Power of The Heart on Sunday, May 22. Audiences will get to hear the song in a slightly reimagined style, as Foster also shares some of his other music, including some potentially unreleased new material. Tune in here at 2:00pm ET and 8:00pm ET on Sunday.
The track can be heard at all digital and streaming platforms, in both a four-minute radio-ready mix and an eight-and-a-half minute version. Foster is also offering the song on limited-edition lathe-cut vinyl, individually printed and silkscreen-printed one-by-one, signed and numbered. Pre-orders for the vinyl are available here as of today.
Perhaps Reed’s most underrated song, The Power of the Heart was also a favourite of creative pioneer, Laurie Anderson, who was Reed's longtime partner and wife until his death in 2013. Foster, who brings his own signature, dense sonic texture to the song, recorded The Power of the Heart in part at his Virginia studio, where he currently resides, along with a grandiose orchestration captured live in his Quebec-based, The Upper Room Studio.
“I’ve been a fan of Lou Reed’s music ever since I found that strange-sounding LP titled Transformer in the prime section of my father’s vinyl collection when I was a kid,” shares Foster. “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 The Power of the Heart’mine.”
Read more about Foster's connection to Lou Reed and The Power of the Heart here.