JULIANNA BARWICK ON TOUR NOW
Julianna Barwick is currently on tour with the Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger featuring Sean Lennon. Barwick will also open for Sharon Von Etten on the second leg of the tour beginning January 20.
Julianna Barwicks highly anticipated LP The Magic Place is set for release on February 22 on Asthmatic Kitty Records.
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.
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.
TOUR DATES
01.08 New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall #
01.11 Arlington, VA @ Iota Café #
01.12 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
01.13 Charlotte, NC @ The Evening Muse #
01.14 Athens, GA @ The Melting Pot #
01.15 Decatur, GA @ The Earl #
01.20 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas*
01.21 Columbus, OH @ Wexner Center for the Arts*
01.22 Nashville, TN @ 5 Spot*
01.23 Asheville, NC @ Broadways*
02.03 Minneapolis, MN @ Southern Theater
# w/ Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger
* w/ Sharon Von Etten
