Description
Julianna Barwick is a composer, vocalist and producer whose music has been featured in publications including The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork (Best New Music), Loud & Quiet and The Guardian. The new album, ‘Healing Is A Miracle’ features collaborations with Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Mary Lattimore and Nosaj Thing. She has performed with artists including Yoko Ono, The Flaming Lips and Phillip Glass.
What has always made Julianna Barwick’s music so special is the way in which she uses the methods of electronic composition—loops, layering, reverb—to build an architectural space out of the first and most innately human instrument—the voice. Although she writes in the language of electronic music, evokes the grandeur of post-rock, and has an approach to time that recalls ambient music, she uses the intimacy of the voice to its fullest extent, the end result being something that is simultaneously strange and approachable.
Over the years Barwick has made six critically acclaimed records. Her self-released debut “Sanguine” came out in 2007, followed by “Florine” in 2009, and “The Magic Place” in 2011. In 2013, she released “Nepenthe,” which marked Barwick’s first steps into collaborating, working with producer and film composer Alex Somers in Reykjavík. She expanded her parameters further on “Will,” her 2016 album, enlisting more collaborators in Mas Ysa’s Thomas Arsenault, Dutch cellist Maarten Vos, and Chairlift percussionist Jamie Ingalls. In July 2020 she released “Healing Is A Miracle,” earning Pitchfork’s coveted ‘Best New Music’ for 2020.