Jeffrey Foucault will release The Universal Fire on September 6 via Fluff and Gravy Records. 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 drummer, Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – as well as a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.
Foucault shared the title track to announce the impeccable album last month and now releases ‘Solo Modelo’, referencing the lone beer he would have after losing the friend he always shared it with.
“For most of a decade I spent a hundred nights a year on the road with Billy Conway,” reflects Foucault. “When we were out as a duo he played a suitcase drum kit: snare drum with a Remo conga head, a ride cymbal, a low-boy (sock cymbal) from the 1930s, and an empty suitcase that carried all these things and served as the kick drum. // Continue to the full article