I've been away for a while. i am simply very lazy...
I've been listening to Julianna Barwick's music alot lately, in particularly, 'The Magic Place'....
I'm in love...
It's really funny if you look back over the course of music from the last decade and examine. A good percentage of our most innovative and creative voices have been buried under a mountain of reverb. Julianna Barwick isn't an exception. However, what she's doing musically is something that i have never heard done so relevantly (maybe even at all.)
I've been listening to Julianna Barwick's music alot lately, in particularly, 'The Magic Place'....
I'm in love...
It's really funny if you look back over the course of music from the last decade and examine. A good percentage of our most innovative and creative voices have been buried under a mountain of reverb. Julianna Barwick isn't an exception. However, what she's doing musically is something that i have never heard done so relevantly (maybe even at all.)
The music is mostly a capella, she loops single vocal melodies with an RC-50 loop station until she has a choir of just herself. Each song is like one big crescendo, building and building until it fades or dismantles. On occasion there is sparse instrumentation but its just enough, never too much.
Another interesting fun fact is that most of Barwicks music is impromptu.
The timing of each loop is perfect and her voice is absolutely beautiful. What Barwick does is ethereal, arresting and human without the slightest bit of pretense. There is also a vein of creepiness, keeping it from sounding like window dressings; pretty and frivolous.
If you haven't heard Julianna Barwick then I suggest you give her a listen.
good places to start: 'Bob In Your Gait', 'Prizewinning', and 'White Flag'
Her Bandcamp
Her Bandcamp
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