“All the Violence in the World” [Vinyl]

Printed and crafted at The Fabrik, Alex Henry Foster’s own creative atelier.

The LP features the unreleased song “All the Violence in the World”, performed live at Echo Mountain Studio, Alex Henry Foster’s house in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The song was then cut onto vinyl using the lathe-cut method. Signed and numbered edition of 150 copies.

Includes:
– 1 clear heavyweight silkscreen printed lathe cut 12” record
– Signed and numbered limited edition of 150 copies
– 1 hand-printed silkscreen jacket
– 1 digital download card

Track Listing:
1. All the Violence in the World (Live from Echo Mountain Studio, April 23, 2022)

About “All the Violence in the World”:

“Being united for human rights for all and every individual’s dignity
does not only make a real difference in someone’s life,
it is also a way to stand against all forms of tyranny,
whatever it may be and wherever it may take place.”

It’s always difficult for me to address human rights issues without being either too deeply involved emotionally or angrily reactionary. Having friends all over that beautifully welcoming and generously inviting region makes the horrors presently happening in Ukraine even more soul-wrecking for me. Like most of the people watching this unbearably perfidious human tragedy unfold, I just can’t fathom the violence and hatred of this barbaric invasion. As much as I am completely revolted by Putin’s tyranny over Ukrainian citizens, I’m also filled with a profound sense of compassion towards the general Russian population who is not only kept in total ignorance of the crimes being perpetrated on its neighbor, but who is the invisible victim of an implacably oppressive and immensely despotic regime. The images, like the powerless revulsion they carry, might be too heavy to look at, but they are the abomination and infamy of a world we have ignored for so long — for too long.

A simple gesture, sometimes, is all it takes. That’s why I decided to invite you all in my studio for an up-close and personal type of intimate gathering. Along with the members of The Long Shadows, I am getting prepared for the tour and getting disposed to the invisible nature defining the streaming words and sounds floating all over, only to be felt through pure abandonment.

- Alex