Thing of the Day
Julia Kent's green and grey
MAY
13th 2011
Classical cello
player Julia Kent has released her second solo album; more notions of
the shifting balance of the green and the grey, leaf growth and the
greening of the man-made. Graceful beauty, field-sounds, strings,
gentle electronica…
JULIA KENT – Green And Grey
(Tin Angel) – Some rather relaxing, yet rather elegantly challenging,
cello-fuelled classical warmth. We’re told New York-based Canadian
Julia Kent’s instrumental composition is inspired by the interactions
of the natural world and the human world, the green and the grey. Loops
and layers of very natural, organic sounding cello, delicate electronic
textures, unobtrusive field recordings, warm reflective movement,
gentle gliding strings. There's not really a feeling of the grey and
the green battling or pushing against each other, more existing
together; it does sound like, in Julia’s quite personal world, the
organicness of the green is retaining the power in a graceful way, more
notions of the Captain’s Table and the taking back, of trillian
green. Do rather like how the low mechanical clunk I could
hear 
was actually part of the music and not outside the door here in
the city we live in... clever production, clever details.
Julia Kent is probably best known for her part played in
cello-rock pioneers Rasputina,
she’s also part of Antony
and the Johnsons. This second solo album is really where
Julie Kent is establishing her own detailed fingerprint, however, a
follow on to Delay
and her own rather lovely melancholy, rich warmth, considered
romanticism, fragile intersections. No collaborators “other than the
insects, weather, and wind sounds that create a sort of exoskeleton for
the music”. Beautifully graceful classical music, refined strings,
elegant melancholy, slowly evolving leaf growth, beautiful space,
gracefully soothing… Graceful.
Green And Grey is out on May16th – www.tinangelrecords.co.uk
www.tinangelrecords.co.uk/julia
http://www.juliakent.com/
Trillian green:The
process of nature taking over man-made things.
Some YouTubes:
For more notions of trillion green and the Captain’s Table, we suggest you explore a slice of 80’s English freefesti band Webcore…
