NEW MUSIC FROM DAVE FOSTER BAND
The guitarist and singer Dinet Poortman will finally return in April with Glimmer.
Glimmer is the upcoming new album from the Dave Foster Band. Due on April 21, it will be the first release since the DFB signed to English Electric Recordings, the label founded by Big Big Train, another band on Foster’s current, crowded CV.
The record will be previewed in January through the single release of its opening track, Dive In. “The chorus of that song is so instant,” Foster tells Prog. “The album is very song based, so we didn’t want the first release to be something like [album track] Stigma, which is quite weighty and proggy.”
Guitarist Foster and Dutch vocalist Dinet Poortman are both still at the outfit’s creative core, and once again they’ve surrounded themselves with elite musicians, including bassist Neil Fairclough (Queen + Adam Lambert) and drummer Leon Parr, with whom Foster performs in the Steve Rothery Band.
Glimmer will be the follow-up to the group’s well-received
2019 offering Nocebo. The pandemic’s to blame for the near fouryear gap between albums. “It was so frustrating,” Foster tells Prog. “We’d just managed to get the live thing up and running with Nocebo. We’d done three live shows with the band and thought, ‘This is going to work.’ Dinet and I had already writing songs and had aimed for an album in 2020, but obviously Covid put paid to all that.”
Despite the setback, Foster and Poortman feel the record is better for the extra time they had to write and refine the material, and they’re looking to play shows in the UK and Europe.
For album pre-orders go to www.bit.ly/dfbprog.