Today Montreal-based experimental rock artist, writer, social worker and human rights advocate Alex Henry Foster revealed “Calling Out!” from his upcoming album The Fragile Beauty (Of New Morning Hopes) out October 23.
An industrial-sounding, frenetic sea of distortion and desperation, the song paints a sonic canvas of chaotic surroundings and the longing to release and surrender to something new.
Foster describes the song as an entanglement of emotional layers. In one sense, it’s a reaction to “a social stream collectivizing our individual frustration and powerlessness.” In a polarized society of black or white, “‘Calling Out!’ is about breaking that monochromatic view of ourselves and the world we live in.” On another level, “Calling Out!” is something instinctive throughout our lives that calls us to shed the cacophony, a “conscious awakening that keeps arising throughout our journey and calls us to get out of our self-imposed affective blur.” Against the chaotic soundscape, the answer is simplistic: “freedom only involves us letting go.”
