00 The Magic Place.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Magic Place
Author: Julianna Barwick
Release Year: 2011
Genre: Electronic
File Information
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Number of Tracks: 9
Total Duration: 0:43:44
Total Size: 199.11 MB
Files Created on: 13-Dec-2016 07:59:06
Encoded At: CBR 587 kbit/s 44 KHz Stereo
ID3 Tags: No
NFO Created: 14-Dec-2016 10:28:25
NFO/SFV/PAR created by: Mp3BookHelper http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
Posting
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Posting date: 14-Dec-2016
File List
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Duration File Name
1 0:05:39 01 Envelop.flac
2 0:04:48 02 Keep Up The Good Work.flac
3 0:03:51 03 The Magic Place.flac
4 0:04:05 04 Cloak.flac
5 0:04:53 05 White Flag.flac
6 0:04:39 06 Vow.flac
7 0:04:03 07 Bob In Your Gait.flac
8 0:06:42 08 Prizewinning.flac
9 0:05:04 09 Flown.flac
Description
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Julianna
Barwick's Asthmatic Kitty Records debut, The Magic Place, is a nine-piece full-length album of magic and solace, bursting joy and healing tones. Julianna's
mostly-a-capella music is built from her voice multi-tracked through a loop
station.
There's more backing instrumentation on this one than on previous albums but it's
here.
It's the layered fragments and pieces that become an intricate pattern through technology; it's
the sound of a rising thing, a big group harmony as a splash of sunlight
through a car window, a sound that feels like hope and ascendance and patience
and intimacy.
Her inspiration here is the a capella church hymns she grew up singing; the way
a roomful of diverse voices can join together to fill up a space. Says Julianna
about her church
ethereal glossolalia, there's a very particular joy in listening to Julianna's
music. Free of the constraints of narrative and traceable language,
it's the same joy in giving yourself over to opera in a foreign language, of letting go of your pesky rational mind and allowing the feeling to come through in the voices and performance. The title track is next, a reverb-y beauty queen that soars to Promethean heights and builds its own kind of safe haven in the clouds. Even the gaps between songs are essential to the album's
important. The New York Times called the pauses between
a great place to be...
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