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Julianna Barwick is an American musician who composes using electronic loops. Her first album, The Magic Place, was released in 2011.

Julianna Barwick
Background information
Genres	Ambient, new age, electronic, avant-garde
Occupation(s)	Musician
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Dead Oceans, Asthmatic Kitty, Mistletone
Website	juliannabarwick.com

Music career

Barwick has said that her music is influenced by her participation in church choir while growing up in Louisiana. She composes with a machine to create electronic loops built around her vocalizing.[1]

She self-released her debut EP, Sanguine, in 2006. The songs are wordless with vocal overdubs, vocal percussion, and improvisation.[2] On the EP, Florine, she uses a loop station and pedals to create minimalist repetition accompanied by layers of vocals and synthesizers.[3] In 2010, Barwick was commissioned to remix "Reckoner" by Radiohead. During the next year, she released an album of improvisational music, FRKWYS Vol. 6, with Ikue Mori.[4]

She recorded her first full-length album, The Magic Place, on a rehearsal stage because it was soundproof and had a piano.[5] The title of the album refers to a tree on her family's farm that was big enough to crawl into, as though the tree contained rooms shaped by the trunk and branches.[6] In 2012, she formed the duo Ombre[7] with Helado Negro and recorded the album Believe You Me.[8]

The title of her second album, Nepenthe, was inspired by the death of a relative. The name comes from the drug of forgetfulness found in ancient Greek literature and the work of Edgar Allan Poe. The album features the string ensemble Amiina and a choir of teenage girls.[9]

In 2016, the song "Nebula", from her third album Will premiered on NPR. A music video directed by Derrick Belcham was shot at the historic Philip Johnson Glass House.[10]

On December 20, 2019, she released an EP, titled Circumstance Synthesis, and in July 2020 she released her fourth album Healing Is a Miracle.[11]

Discography

Solo studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Heat.[12]	New Age Albums[12]
The Magic Place	Released: February 21, 2011 Label: Asthmatic Kitty Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	—	4
Nepenthe	Released: August 20, 2013 Label: Dead Oceans Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	25	3
Will	Released: May 6, 2016 Label: Dead Oceans Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	21	3
Healing Is a Miracle	Released: July 11, 2020 Label: Ninja Tune Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	—	—

Collaborative studio albums

Title	Album details
FRKWYS Vol. 6 (with Ikue Mori)	Released: June 14, 2011 Label: RVNG Intl. Formats: LP, digital download, streaming
Believe You Me (with Helado Negro, as Ombre)	Released: August 21, 2012 Label: Asthmatic Kitty Formats: LP, digital download, streaming

EPs

Title	Details
Sanguine	Released: 2006
Florine	Released: April 27, 2009
Matrimony Remixes	Released: October 4, 2011
Pacing	Released: March 5, 2013
Rosabi	Released: June 3, 2014
Circumstance Synthesis	Released: December 20, 2019

References

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