Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (2011) [FLAC] [log cue]

Artist: Julianna Barwick
Release: The Magic Place
Discogs: 2637890
Released: 2011-02-00
Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records
Catalog#: AKR081
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Style: Electronic, Ethereal, Ambient

Tracklisting:

01. Envelop (5:39)
02. Keep Up The Good Work (4:48)
03. The Magic Place (3:51)
04. Cloak (4:05)
05. White Flag (4:53)
06. Vow (4:39)
07. Bob In Your Gait (4:03)
08. Prizewinning (6:42)
09. Flown (5:04)

Album Review

“The Magic Place was a tree on our farm,” says Louisiana-raised Brooklynite Julianna Barwick. “It was in the back pasture. It was one tree that grew up, down and around. You had to crawl in and once you were inside, it was like there were different rooms, and you could actually lay in the branches. We named it 'The Magic Place' because it really was magical—especially for a kid... and that's how I feel about my life right now—without trying to sound too hippy dippy or cosmic, this year has definitely been a magical one.”

And so goes Julianna's Asthmatic Kitty Records debut, The Magic Place, 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 the vocals—soaring high in reverb-drenched, wordless harmonies—that matter most 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. (Pitchfork called her 2009 self-release, Florine, “bracingly intimate” as well as a runner-up for “album of the year,” giving it a glowing rating of 8.2. Her 2007 debut, Sanguine, is more of the same. Her sound, it appears, was born fully realized).

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Audio Info from Track 09 as a Sample

General
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
File size : 19.0 MiB
Duration : 3mn 51s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 691 Kbps
Album : The Magic Place
Track name : The Magic Place
Track name/Position : 03
Track name/Total : 09 / 9
Performer : Julianna Barwick
Producer : Asthmatic Kitty Records
Genre : Electronic
Recorded date : 2011
ISRC : US64G1108103
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DISCOGS_COUNTRY : US
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DISCOGS_RELEASE_MONTH : 02
DISCOGS_RELEASED : Feb 2011
STYLE : Ethereal / Ambient

Audio
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Duration : 3mn 51s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 691 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 19.0 MiB (100%)
Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7lLfYBGRaA
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick, Flown
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick Keep Up The Good Work
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick - Envelop (The Magic Place)
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick - White Flag (The Magic Place)
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick Prizewinning
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick ...gic Place (The Magic Place)
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick - Cloudbank
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick-...Theater Oakland, CA 6/22/11
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick - Cloak (The Magic Place)
(YouTube) A Conversation with Julianna Barwick
(YouTube) Julianna Barwick ...Place (Pelagic Space Remix)