“From the City to the Ocean” [CD]

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

Includes:

- 1 CD From the City to the Ocean
- 1 hand-printed silkscreen jacket
- The WAV versions of the album

Track Listing:
1. From the City to the Ocean [Studio Revisited] (4:31)
2. From the City to the Ocean [Upper Room Rehearsal] (12:27)
3. From the City to the Ocean [Live in Bocholt, Belgium] (12:31)

Created for the collection “From the City to the Ocean”

“Free man, you will always love the sea.” I have always been fascinated by the nature of the sea, the ocean, its redeeming grace and its implacable power, its freedom of movement. I almost drowned as a kid. Maybe that’s where the fascination goes back to. It’s paradoxical because I’m truly the product of a big city. I grew up in what looks like huge soulless apartment complexes, which for me reflected the same nature as the ocean somehow… Where can you drown yourself? Where can you find yourself suffocating? Where can you lose yourself choking? For me, there was a very intriguing parallel between the two elements. And Baudelaire’s ideas were a perfect catharsis to that initial spark for the song. Bright as the sky reflecting its beauty over water and welcoming our often worn-out and hopeless colors…

Just like Baudelaire wrote about the man, I used the city as a metaphor for the deceptive essence of human nature. He wrote about the sea, I used the ocean as a symbol of our most intimate dreams and secrets.