Jeffrey Foucault announces new album inspired by passing of his best friend for September release Americana UK [Video]

On September 6th,  AUK favourite, Jeffrey Foucault will release his first album of entirely new material since 2018,” The Universal Fire” which will be out via Fluff and Gravy Records. A series of high-voltage performances captured live in one room, the album is described as a kind of working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer, Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – as well as a meditation on the nature of beauty, artefact, and loss.

Augmenting Foucault’s all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) the album sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.

To mark the announced release date the title track has been released as a single“‘The Universal Fire’ is …