This is a rather beautiful, rather poignant song, The Face Of Losing is a heartfelt tribute from Ian Fisher to his mother, who lost her 26-year battle with cancer last year, it is simply a beautiful thing, a warm thing, a tather uplifting thing…
“The Missouri-born artist, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Germany who considers Toronto, Vienna and Missouri home, says that in the immediate aftermath of his mom’s death, he remembers feeling like a “planet had been removed from the solar system.” Adding, “Everything looked the same, but gravity was different. The orbital pull of things had been altered.” The acoustic song, punctuated with an affecting pedal steel guitar, is as much a song of mourning as it is a comforting ballad that inspires us to live more fully and embrace life. Death is something that we conveniently shove to the side and don’t address very often. It can be unhealthy because it creates a situation where we think we’ll live forever,” he explains. “But everyone we know and have around us is going to die eventually. It’s a miracle that we even have this moment right now.”
About Ian Fisher:
“Ian Fisher excels at making a style of music that Rolling Stone has described as “half Americana and half Abbey Road-worthy pop.” “Growing up in a small town in Missouri in the ’90s limited my options. I was raised on the country music that was on the radio and my dad’s collection of classic rock vinyl,” he says of his upbringing. “The boredom gave me nothing better to do than write songs and my dissatisfaction with being there made me dream so much of the world outside that it acted like a slingshot pulling me back till it released me and threw me to the other side of the world. Musically, my folk roots come from Missouri, but my time abroad made it more urban than country.”
A prolific songwriter (he is rumoured to have written nearly 2,000 songs) with over a dozen released studio albums, Fisher has caught the ear of the music world at large. Rolling Stone described his music as “a world traveler’s perspective on American folk-rock,” while PopMatters applauds as “captivating,” and No Depression describes it as “simple, yet emotionally complex meanderings… His voice is a hoarser Jim Croce, with pen ready to strike a la Billy Bragg meeting an old Johnny Cash notebook.” Glide adds, “folk-rock sentimentality with imagery that would be at place in an old Ray Price song, Fisher taps into a sound that is at once moving and different.”
We’ll just let his new song do all the talking….
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