Solo Modelo (Single)

“Our religion was electric / Magnetic, singing on a wire...”
In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault will release THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (Fluff & Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances captured live in one room, the album is a kind of working wake - Foucault lost his best friend and long-time drummer, Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 - as well as a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.
Augmenting his all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/horn player MIke Lewis) THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California which destroyed the masters of certain bedrock American recordings - to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.