the new home of Feral & Stray
Foundling are from Montreal, Canada and are now based in Berlin, Germany and tour internationally. They make eclectic indie avant-guard music.
We’re riding the summer heat with our final mixes and making some wavey mystical images to go with the album. We shot the cover in Toronto with the wonderful and talented Paula Wilson and made some videos with our favourite collaborators Robin Lang and Liliane Smith. We’re designing the stage set for live shows and working on a live video with all the foundling beauties. More of everything very soon!
As a new year rushes in all of us in Foundling are wishing you love and inspiration for the year to come. We’re feeling a cresting of a wave as we come into this new year in the wake of all the wonderful concerts last year in Spain and France and the UK. A needed sea change. We are thinking about how we would like to better engage with the communities we live in and visit. We want to make music for you while talking more about its roots and acknowledging where it comes from, the histories of the powerful sounds we are inspired by and borrow from. We want to talk about how to create safer spaces and inclusion for more people in the community to enjoy live music. We want to know your ideas and feelings about it and all participate in how to make our connections broader and more profound. Our newsletter will be changing into more of a call-and-answer platform and we heartfully invite you to share your voice..
I’ve been lucky enough to feel connected to the world and who I am through music and sound. I want to work harder to make that feeling exist in as many hearts as possible. Welcome 2023.
xo
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When someone whose music you deeply admire and that has been one of your dearest friends for 10+ years asks if you might like to join them onstage and play their songs with them on tour the answer is.. finally! :)
Truly an honour to play with Taylor we had an incredible time in Italy and I loved being challenged to become deeply reacquainted with my first instrument and first love, the trumpet. We played incredible venues, ancient ruins and caves, we looked out across all of Rome while we played there. What a dream. xo
Poto courtesy of Emiliano Tidona
What a special moment to play a new song for the first time. From this album that we’ve been living with for the last couple of years now, from the isolation of that moment to a kind of return to the wider world, the familiar kind of sharing from stage to space, a feeling of reunion and with something new to sing. As always a delight to support Agnes Obel and Timber Timbre, I (Erin :) played solo shows in Spain and in Italy for the first time. I was so nervous, it seemed like it had been so long since being in that place, there was definitely something I had forgotten that thankfully came back to me in a flash in the opening moments of the first show in Vigo. It swept over me like a wave and I steadied and then loved every minute of remembering the feeling and all the other times I’ve been lucky enough to feel it. That very particular kind of sharing. Thank you to everyone who was there sharing with me.
Photo courtesy of Emiliano Tidona
We are so excited to be in the very final stages of mixing, all the birds settling into their nests and the lullabies of all the leaves and grasses weaving quiet harmonies.. It has been an absolute pleasure working on the mix with Taylor Kirk (Timber Timbre) and Olivier Fairfield on this, so much reverence for their talented thoughtful ears and ideas.
Very soon we’ll be bringing you a series of teaser videos to sweep you off into the world of Equilibria in its underwave rhythms and shifting sand and palm tree landscapes. We can’t wait..
In the quiet year, we were making sounds and sounds.. about cycles and balance, labyrinthine senses and vestibular systems.. We translated longing through texts and txt across close distances and now finally finding our feet together to fill out the drums, sax, flutes, percussion, and keys that this album wants and needs. The pleasure of being together is palpable in the sounds we’re making over this skeleton of Equilibria.
I coudln’t be more excited to so bringing this multitude of counterpoise to you.. soon.. so soon..
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We have been quietly working away on new songs and a new album for what feels like a lifetime. But we are coming out of our writing cocoon for some exciting shows! Unfortunately shows in Italy with Dean Roberts were postponed (stay tuned for new dates) but we will be on stage in Berlin for some sneak peeks of new songs and some exciting events and festivals.
March 25th @arkaoda w/Dean Roberts
April 6th @grunnersalon w/Miles Perkin
June 21st @fetedelamusique
We will also have available with us the BEAUTIFUL very limited edition Riso print poster by @frausteinner
Hand-numbered and can be signed
Foundling will be playing 4 shows in the UK in October.
17.10 Brighton, Rose Hill. with special guests Yumi And The Weather and Linden Pomeroy
19.10 Worthing, Bar 42. with special guests Memum
21.10 Norwich, Bicycle Shop. with special guests Memum
22.10 London, Paper Dress Vintage. with special guests Memum and Songs for Walter
Watch the tour trailer ..
Thank you so much to all the incredible people who were involved and so supportive!
Fault Lines video out June 1st 2018.
We are very excited to have a release date for Fault Lines. May 25th 2018. Coming soon! Here is a teaser..
We are very excited to be working with Popdelia promotions for a select run of shows in Mexico! See you soon!
Last year we were completely moved by some footage we found of Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance. She inspired the pioneers of film, appearing in all the early films of the late 1800's and early 1900's. To celebrate the season and to a great year, we got together with our favourite video team and created this film to accompany Kalimba 3, one of the instrumental pieces from 'Fault Lines' which will be released in 2018. The song was one of the early recordings for the record and was born when we found the tiniest thumb piano we had ever seen sitting at the back of a drawer. A total mystery to how it got there but had been there for at least 15 years and was waiting to sing.
Directed and Produced by Robin Lang and New Motion Films
Choreography by Lillane Smith
Watch samples of Loie Fuller's mesmerising performances here
Listen to Kalimba 3 on soundcloud
Have a wonderful 2018!
love from Foundling
Our last album 'Between You And The Sea' is back! 180g and pressed in white vinyl its available for sale from Discogs here..
Thank you so much to NBHAP for running the premier of our video for 'New Years'.
They cover a lot of really interesting music all worth checking out so read the review and watch
the video Here.
still taken from the video for New Years
We are very excited to announce the release of the single and video for 'New Years' the first single from our album Fault Lines. We worked with an incredible team of people in a collaboration with modern experimental dancers/choreographers Emilie Morin and Danielle Denichaud, from Canada, Lili Smith from Netherlands, and producer/director Robin Lang to create a broken mirror dreamscape of soul twins and fractured realities. Sign up for the newsletter or send us a message for a private sneak peek!
After a great show in Montreal for The Fringe Festival and POP Montreal, Erin is on the west coast and played in Los Angeles at The Satellite. Thank you to all that were there and @NotesfromVivance for these great photos.
photo by @notesfromvivace
photo by @notesfromvivace
photo by @notesfromvivace
A really wonderful night and show in a fuchsia glow.. Thank you to everyone who was there and to Timber Timbre for the invitation. Their show was powerful and inspiring as always, see them whenever you have the chance. We will be announcing more shows soon.
Photo by Sabrina Gricourt.
Very excited to be coming out of the word work and back on stage after the long winding road of making 'Fault Lines'. Erin will be performing solo at Huxley's Neue Welt and will be offering the first peek at some of the new songs. Supporting long time friends and collaborators Timbre Timbre. More live appearances to be announced soon.
