repost :: julianna barwick's sanguine
due to the excitement of recentisms, this year old post deserves a re-post to catch up to da times. julianna's celebrating countless blog reviews and also a feature in the othermusic newsletter. she just finished opening for the dirty projectors at bowery ballroom, definitely my favorite venue in nyc. by the way dirty projectors live was awesome. masterpiece form.
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julianna barwick has self released her first album, sanguine. the cd is a collection of short loop based songs. lacking definable lyrics, the songs create their own themes sonically and leave nameless emotional impressions. julianna's talents as a vocalist push most of the musical strength in the album, her choice of melodic vocal overdubs with vocal percussion is fascinating and dizzying. some sounds become indecipherable as the human voice. comparable to bjork's medula approach to end instrumentation, most of the tracks are all vocal based. julianna's all vocal album has less of a political method behind it as does bjork's medula; it's based more on her natural approach to songwriting: spontaneously improving and recording immediately. many of the songs were written on the fly.
:: listen to dancing with friends
the vocal track layering lends to something stronger; carrying julianna's admitted affinity for the sounds of choir boys, the warmth of mum, and beauty of the human voice as found in panda bear's solo recordings. In a sense, many of the tracks take on a choir boy presence. but the lo fi quality recording and unstructured song loop presentation keep her in the realm of avant garde, rather just another pretty female voice. "unt. 6" grabs your attention immediately as a soundtrack moment. dark and mysterious. "unt. 3" is the most beautiful and angelic, conjuring memories of choir boys and cocteau twins watery pop.
:: listen to unt. 3
[photo cred] for a first release, sanguine serves as very promising start for julianna barwick. she effortlessly proves her strong melodic songwriting and vocal capabilities. the cd acts as a diving board in which she could easy mix her melodies into the dub or electronic world, creating layered atmospheric music on a larger scale, as hinted to in her collaboration with pandatone. for the moment, sanguine serves as an intimate group of melodies displayed through the minimal tools of a 4 track, a loop pedal, and a beautiful voice.
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performance:: julianna barwick
julianna barwick and twi the humble feather performed at the living room in lower east side. the sound guy was awesome, both julianna and twi experiencing some of the best sound during a performance ever. nice laid back environment, chairs and candles. perfect setting to absorb the sonics from both artist, who both demand a hush up and listen audience for their acts. twi performed their work from the album music for spaceships and forests, which is being mastered right now and shall be out shortly.
julianna plays at soundfix records this friday the 30th.
this is the first time to hear julianna's live work since june. she's mastered her gear, her loops are more emotionally compelling, and the venues keep getting better. a great spiritual music experience. she added one new song at the end, something she came up with the night before.listen to julianna barwick's set
:: first song
:: second song
:: three song
:: four song
:: five song
:: six song
Labels: julianna barwick, twi and humble feather
promotion :: julianna barwick
wonderful news today in the circle of close musician friends. julianna barwick's recent jaunt to europe for performances and her appearance on portugal's má fama radio show has sparked the attention of pitchforkmedia. you can read the featurette here. this is a great achievement for julianna and her music. they give her a wonderful review. from the new live in studio performance at má fama you can clearly note her growth from her previous documents on this blog. a great celebration for julianna!
julianna performs on november 25th at the living room in the lower east side.
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performance :: julianna barwick
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performance :: pandatone, julianna barwick, praveen
musical pals pandatone, julianna barwick, and praveen performed at cake shop to host visiting kiiii. pandatone standing at a live performance?! yes, it's possible. he ran his guitar through his computer for added fx and played off recorded loop starters. julianna eased in her vocal loops on top, and praveen held light beats. it was an improv'd set, and kinda served as a kickoff to promote pandatone's new album, happy together, which comes out april 24th. advanced copies were available at the show. the album features a strong collaboration between pandatone and julianna barwick's vocals. unfortunately, i couldn't stay to see kiiii, but judging from their colorful hyper gold and silver dvd, i'm sure their set pumped the rainy day attenders into sugar high antics.
:: improv set ::
:: listen to first song
:: listen to second song
:: listen to third song
:: listen to fourth song
:: listen to fifth song
:: listen to sixth songLabels: julianna barwick, performance
performance :: julianna and liek as shadow
yesterday liek as shadow and julianna performed at glasslands gallery in williamsburg, brooklyn. glasslands gallery is a new effort by brooke baxter and rolyn hu, who previous ran the old glasshouse gallery around the corner; the new address is 289 kent ave (btw south 1st and south 2nd). i was totally impressed with the art space, a big improvement. same motive for glasslands: to promote local underground experimental music and art. a homey self expression bunker for underground types, no tight gap jeans required. more stage space, better sound system, less clutter, a proper seating section and refreshments area. it even has an upstairs booth, for those feeling the opera-box-look-down-on-the-crowd-people vibe. the entrance is still pretty conspicuous, follow the secret signs.
liek as shadow's set was mostly guitar driven this time, with atmospheres from fx pedals, falsettos, and a sampler. julianna's set again was totally new material, nothing recognizable from her sanguine cd. building vocal loops live, a warm and religious experience.
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cd release :: julianna barwick
julianna barwick has self released her first album, sanguine. the cd is a collection of short loop based songs. lacking definable lyrics, the songs create their own themes sonically and leave nameless emotional impressions. julianna's talents as a vocalist push most of the musical strength in the album, her choice of melodic vocal overdubs with vocal percussion is fascinating and dizzying. some sounds become indecipherable as the human voice. comparable to bjork's medula approach to end instrumentation, most of the tracks are all vocal based. julianna's all vocal album has less of a political method behind it as does bjork's medula; it's based more on her natural approach to songwriting: spontaneously improving and recording immediately. many of the songs were written on the fly.
:: listen to dancing with friends
the vocal track layering lends to something stronger; carrying julianna's admitted affinity for the sounds of choir boys, the warmth of mum, and beauty of the human voice as found in panda bear's solo recordings. In a sense, many of the tracks take on a choir boy presence. but the lo fi quality recording and unstructured song loop presentation keep her in the realm of avant garde, rather just another pretty female voice. "unt. 6" grabs your attention immediately as a soundtrack moment. dark and mysterious. "unt. 3" is the most beautiful and angelic, conjuring memories of choir boys and cocteau twins watery pop.
:: listen to unt. 3
for a first release, sanguine serves as very promising start for julianna barwick. she effortlessly proves her strong melodic songwriting and vocal capabilities. the cd acts as a diving board in which she could easy mix her melodies into the dub or electronic world, creating layered atmospheric music on a larger scale, as hinted to in her collaboration with pandatone. for the moment, sanguine serves as an intimate group of melodies displayed through the minimal tools of a 4 track, a loop pedal, and a beautiful voice.
her cd release party will be next week with liek as a shadow opening: january 17th at glasslands gallery in brooklyn Labels: julianna barwick, release
cd release :: pandatone
i miss watching wwf, sitting indian style at a friend's house. cartoon character title names, but more importantly, the concept of tag team wrestling: the bushwackers, the nasty boys, rock and roll express. two giants working together to smash metal chairs over their opponents. the combos, the high fives, the back and forth. pandatone has collaborated with loring for his current ep. i'd kinda like to think it's a colosseum celebration of tag team sounds. pandatone's mad production and loring's vocal improbs cut and diced into chewable pieces. trevor's warm electronics push the vocal talent of loring into a great presentation format for the both.what's even better? you've been invited to this reception and there's free wine. trevor has decided to release his ep online for free. check out pandatone's website and music related records to get the "and here i thought it was pointless" EP.
:: listen to i forgot if we dreamedLabels: julianna barwick
performance :: glasshouse gallery
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performance :: liek
last weekend was peanut butter jam packed with music. i had a great time watching sets and hanging out with friends, and being that annoying person with the digital camera. (stealing ideas too :) first was at tommy's tavern in greenpoint brooklyn last friday. the show was organized by colour sounds i think. padna, liek (hektor) played, and fragmented members of meditation hitz including adam kriney closed the set. liek's style ranged from electronic atmospheric sounds coming from his mixer suitcase with fx vocal overlays, to acoustic guitar psychedelic fragmented melodies. it was a great intimate performance, and my first to see liek live. alias pail is filling in as 3rd guitarist on an acoustic project with twi (as in twilight, pappy) and liek. i've been having so much fun playing with these guys. great friends and musicians. anthony and hektor put up with my hyperness and slander my alias pail poppiness. chop down my lalala tree, i don't care. as long as i get my tea with lemon, i'll keep this gig. i guess their hope is to start performing by early summer.
on sunday loring (julianna) played her first show at knitting factory. woohoo! mad props! she started out with her guitar based songs and fx delay vocals. a row of dedicated fans were tranced by the soothing voice, unaffected by radiating bar clamour. the highlight of the show was her ending piece in which she looped and overdubbed her voice into this huge orchestration, part choir boy, part beat box, part experimental pop, all loring. you could feel the crowd hone in on this song and move to the stage. suddenly i wasn't the only person taking pix. loring's strongest strength is her spontaneous creation of loops with vocal overlays. no one can compete to the angelic beauty of her voice and the whimsical nature of her melodies.
:: listen to liek
:: listen to loring
:: listen to adam kriney
Labels: julianna barwick
alias pail pals :: loring
frequent, fellow alias pail contributor, julianna (a.k.a. loring), is also in a band called the snowjackets with scott bell. One of their songs with a quck bio is featured on this iPodCast from indie6 in toronto. congratulations julianna and scott!!!
:: listen to iPodCast
p.s. loring has a show this weekend at knitting factory Labels: julianna barwick
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