KENT, JULIA — Delay
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"Ein gutes Beispiel für Zurückhaltung und Maßhaftigkeit ist dagegen »Delay« (Important Records), ein feines, melancholisches Stück Musik von Julia Kent, die sich ansonsten etwa als Teil von Antony And The Johnsons verdient. Hier nun widmet sie sich einem sanft mitreißenden Mix aus Field Recordings und geistreichen Cello-Kompositionen, zuweilen erinnert dies an die sehr musikalischen Momente der letzten Mira Calix-LP »Eyes Set Against The Sun«. Was »Delay« schlussendlich zu einem kleinen Highlight abrundet, ist vor allen Dingen das hörbare emotionale Engagement, das hier selbst die unscheinbareren Töne mit großer Sorgfalt begleitet. (Nicht nur) in dieser Hinsicht erinnert das Album in der Tat an einen ganz großen Avantgarde-Cellisten, nämlich an Arthur Russell." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX]
"Julia Kent left Rasputina in 1999, after releasing two albums on Columbia Records, and shortly thereafter became a member of Antony and the Johnsons. She played on and contributed string arrangements to the group's Mercury Prize-winning record I Am a Bird Now. Her debut solo effort, Delay, is a CD of multitracked cello and found sounds. It was inspired by airports, by transitoriness, and by the private emotional worlds that we create amid the disorientations and disjunctions of travel. Delay was recorded over the course of a year (or so) at home in between touring and traveling. After so many years of playing with other people, Julia felt that it was time to do something entirely on her own. As a result, she is the sole composer/performer on all tracks. The title refers to both the effect, to traveling and to the fact that it took so long to record. It is also an homage to Arthur Russell's World Of Echo -- a masterpiece of (among other things) externalizing the intimate." [label info]
www.importantrecords.com
"Julia Kent left Rasputina in 1999, after releasing two albums on Columbia Records, and shortly thereafter became a member of Antony and the Johnsons. She played on and contributed string arrangements to the group's Mercury Prize-winning record I Am a Bird Now. Her debut solo effort, Delay, is a CD of multitracked cello and found sounds. It was inspired by airports, by transitoriness, and by the private emotional worlds that we create amid the disorientations and disjunctions of travel. Delay was recorded over the course of a year (or so) at home in between touring and traveling. After so many years of playing with other people, Julia felt that it was time to do something entirely on her own. As a result, she is the sole composer/performer on all tracks. The title refers to both the effect, to traveling and to the fact that it took so long to record. It is also an homage to Arthur Russell's World Of Echo -- a masterpiece of (among other things) externalizing the intimate." [label info]
www.importantrecords.com