Julia Kent
Longing
Longing is a new work by maverick multi-instrumentalist David Coulter with contributions from Julia Kent and Simon Fisher Turner. 'This piece was composed to accompany the Walks of Sadness I was taking every day during the Spring of 2020 as the World was spinning us in a very different and unexpected direction. I experienced terrible loss during this time and the sense of longing for my family and the isolation I was feeling became overwhelming. Longing is an exploration of slowness and stillnes…
Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star
2008 release ** "Human Greed lie somewhere between the gorgeous drones of Stars of the Lid and the haunting and solemn “Symphony No. 3” by Henryk Górecki… This is powerful stuff and takes a while to fully digest it. The oily darkness that the music conjures up gets deeper and deeper with every listen, a resonant and otherworldly tremor that is at once human and sublime."
Character
Opportunities for introspection have come few and far between for Canadian-born, New York City-based cellist Julia Kent. After coming to prominence as a member of the cello-driven group Rasputina in the ‘90s, she went on to arrange and play on numerous recordings and tour extensively as a member of Antony and the Johnsons, among other projects.The opportunity to explore her own emotional and creative world came with her solo LPs, Delay (2007) and Green and Grey (2011), and it is something she ap…