Jeffrey Foucault's 5th full length album, Cold Satellite, is a collaboration with the contemporary American poet Lisa Olstein, author of RADIO CRACKLING, RADIO GONE and LOST ALPHABET, both published by Copper Canyon Press. Rising stars in their respective fields and longtime friends, Foucault and Olstein began their collaboration at a distance. In the winter of 2007 when he was between albums and she was between books, Olstein handed Foucault a sheaf of unpublished poems and fragments. Guitar in hand and field recorder on the table, he came to the material cold, hammering out songs by elision and arrangement, and leaving the listener to unify the intentions of two artists in a single experience. The result is an expansion of the notion of authorship and an experiment in the invention of meaning. It's also a rock album. Pairing Olstein's visceral, imagistic language with the rawboned authority of a rock band, Cold Satellite's stripped down sound hearkens back to records by Crazy Horse and the Faces, with menacing electric guitar lines and ethereal pedal steel twined in moments of extended improvisation and breathtaking stillness. Featuring Billy Conway (Morphine, Twinemen) on drums; Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T) on bass; David Goodrich (Chris Smither) on electric guitars; and Nashville session veteran Alex McCollough on pedal steel, Cold Satellite weaves together strands of primitive rock, blues, R&B and Country in a modern refiguring of the nexus of poetry and song.