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Her production choices and arrangements form a continuum of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while glissing Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm winds and reeds. “I was trying to create a world that’s fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body’s internal sound world,” Holter says of her\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eflowing harmonic universe.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What is delicious and what is omniscient?” she sings on “Spinning”, the album’s incantatory centrepiece. “What is the circular magic I’m visiting?” Or as Holter put it: “It’s about being in the passionate state of making something: being in that moment, and what is that moment?” She found it anew on \u003ci\u003eSomething in the Room She Moves\u003c\/i\u003e, singing in somatic frequencies. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domino","offers":[{"title":"Red LPx2 | Signed Copy","offer_id":50389746647371,"sku":"2173649","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50389746450763,"sku":"2173646","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50389746286923,"sku":"2173645","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red LPx2","offer_id":57046469083467,"sku":"21736497","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/juliaholter_SITRSM_3000x3000_ee3c0fbd_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726370425"},{"product_id":"aviary","title":"Aviary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAviary\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic journey through what Julia Holter describes as “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world.” and it’s the Los Angeles composer’s most breathtakingly expansive album yet, full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2015 record, \u003ci\u003eHave You in My Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, it takes as its starting point a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: \"I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds.\" It’s a scenario that sounds straight out of a horror movie, but it’s also a pretty good metaphor for life in 2018, with its endless onslaught of political scandals, freakish natural disasters, and voices shouting their desires and resentments into the void. \u003ci\u003eAviary\u003c\/i\u003e combines Holter’s slyly theatrical vocals and Blade Runner-inspired synth work with an enveloping palette of strings and percussion that reveals itself, and the boundless scope of her vision, over the course of fifteen songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2CD - Double CD housed in Outer “mini gatefold” sleeve with printed inner sleeves and 16 page booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP+ - Deluxe LP indies only: Gatefold sleeve on Double Heavyweight Clear vinyl with Black polylined inner sleeves plus 8 page booklet and Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Standard LP: Gatefold Sleeve on Double heavyweight Black vinyl with Black polylined inner sleeves plus 8 page booklet and Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domino","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2.","offer_id":50401428242763,"sku":"1045552","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50401428734283,"sku":"1045553","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50401428898123,"sku":"1045548","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/77fa13c6-cea3-457f-8d51-6887601b63f4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726522328"},{"product_id":"ekstasis","title":"Ekstasis","description":"\u003cp\u003eBack in Stock on Double Vinyl with Download on Domino. Julia Holter's second album, 'Ekstasis', is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Los Angeles, California. Following the feverish response to her beautiful, minimalist pop masterpiece 'Tragedy,' 'Ekstasis' marks both a return to earlier, more playful territory and the blooming of more recognisable pop forms. Guided by newly-learned disciplines, slightly better technology, and nearly limitless home recording time, Holter's creative trajectory is taking in new neural pathways. launching from the contemplative and eerily beautiful base of previous recordings, 'Ekstasis' reflects the conventions of her classical training, the album is also uncannily, if unknowingly, poppy. holter's approach to crafting the songs of 'Ekstasis' centered around what she describes as, 'open ear decisions: what seemed to sound best for that moment.' Such instinctive creativity lends an Arthur Russell-esque beauty to the recordings: Holter's is a spirit given flight to experiment but always reigned in by a perfect sense of proportion and space. The fruits of 'Ekstasis' are bountiful - 'marienbad' was built while playing around on a fender rhodes with imagined imagery of topiary gardens and scenes from the song's film namesake in mind. the entirety of 'boy in the moon' - the casio sk-1 noodles, melody, and lyrics - was improvised over a seven minute catharsis. the melody and lyrics for 'four gardens' were written spontaneously while rearranging an older song on a loop pedal for a live performance. 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This album in years to come will sit next to the best work of Roy Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Syd Barrett.LP - 180 Gram LP housed in a gloss jacket with printed inner sleeve with Download.LP+ - 180 Gram LP housed in a gloss jacket with printed inner sleeve. 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Her first studio album proper, 'Loud City Song' is both a continuation and a furthering of the fiercely singular and focused vision displayed by its predecessors, taking as it does Holter's rare gift for merging high concept, compositional prowess and experimentation with pop sensibility and applying it to a set of even more daringly beautiful arrangements and emotionally resonant songs. The songs that make up 'Loud City Song' have origins that pre-date 2011's debut 'Tragedy' - coaxed out and finessed as demos in Holter's bedroom studio and then finally coalesced into one thrillingly cohesive experience in the latter stages of 2012 by Holter and co-producer Cole Marsden Grief-Neill and an ensemble of Los Angeles musicians. The result is an album of enormous ambition - Holter taking inspiration from Collette's 1944 novella Gigi and using it as a prism through which to explore her relationship with her hometown of Los Angeles and modern life universally, taking cues from the work of Joni Mitchell and the poetry of Frank O'Hara but forging those touch-points into something resolutely unique.Double Heavyweight Vinyl with ten page illustrated accordion insert.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domino","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50485147074891,"sku":"364899","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a34c0101-5737-40e5-803b-a714c65b5eee_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727596042"},{"product_id":"tragedy-2","title":"Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouble 180 Gram vinyl with download. The much anticipated Domino vinyl re-issue of 'Tragedy' - the hugely celebrated, long out-of-print and intensely coveted debut album by Los Angeles based artist Julia Holter. Originally released in two runs of five hundred copies only on Los Angeles label Leaving Records in November 2011, 'Tragedy' proved to be that year's most captivating, adventurous and inspired debut album and announced the arrival of a major new talent. Inspired by Euripides' Hippolytus, the sheer scope and scale of ambition evident in Tragedy's fifty minutes is staggering. Comprised of voice, synths, drum machines, piano, cello, saxophone, samples, vocoders, ensemble musicians and a chorus, 'Tragedy' is a transcendental amalgamation of avant garde and pop conventions and of organic and electronic compositional forms - an entire universe of a record blessed with its own beautifully peculiar logic. 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