Julia Holter - Ekstasis - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Aviary is an epic journey through what Julia Holter describes as Inchthe cacophony of the mind in a melting world.Inch It's the Los Angeles composer's most breathtakingly expansive album yet, full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements. The followup to her critically acclaimed 2015 record, Have You in My Wilderness, it takes as it's starting point a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan (InchI found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birdsInch). It's a scenario that sounds straight out of a horror movie, but it's also a pretty good metaphor for life in 2018, with it's endless onslaught of political scandals, freakish natural disasters, and voices shouting their desires and resentments into the void. Album Tracks 1. Turn the Light on 2. Whether 3. Chaitius 4. Voce Simul 5. Every Day Is An Emergency 6. Another Dream 7. I Shall Love 2 8. Underneath the Moon 9. Colligere 10. In Gardens' Muteness 11. I Would Rather See 12. Les Jeux to You 13. Words I Heard 14. I Shall Love 1 15. Why Sad Song

Album Tracks 1. Introduction 2. Try to Make Yourself a Work of Art 3. The Falling Age 4. Goddess Eyes 5. Interlude 6. Celebration 7. So Lillies 8. Finale

Julia Holter's second album, Ekstasis, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years. Ekstasis marks a return to the playful searching of her 2007 Eating the Stars EP, but guided by newly-learned disciplines, slightly better technology, and nearly limitless home recording time. While Ekstasis reflects the conventions of her classical training, the album is also uncannily, if unknowingly, poppy. Holter's approach to crafting the songs of Ekstasis centered around what she describes as, Inchopen ear decision what seemed to sound best for that moment.Inch Album Tracks 1. Marienbad 2. Our Sorrows 3. In the Same Room 4. Boy in the Moon 5. Fur Felix 6. Goddess Eyes II 7. Moni Mon Amie 8. Four Gardens 9. Goddess Eyes I 10. This Is Ekstasis