Julia Kent Asperities

Asperities is the fourth solo album by acclaimed Canadian cellist Julia Kent. As the title suggests, this is a record born of conflict: internal, personal and global. Universal themes. The build of pressure and the threat of violent release. Modern guilt. Modern fears. Kent draws from a rich well of emotion, the pieces deceptively rendered, each feeling like a miniature dramatic epic in its own right sculpted and self-contained. Her work on recent film scores is very much in evidence. While cinematic in scope, there is nothing as trite as a Hollywood ending here. There is tension and darkness, the edges cracked and frayed. A lot of the melodic material is based on semitones, Julia elaborates. So in the music there is an inherent sense of dissonance; that things are too close for comfort. More generally, it seems like a particularly dark time in the world right now, and I think that definitely had an influence too. A1. Hellebore A2. Lac Des Arcs A3. The Leopard A4. Flag Of No Country B1. Terrain B2. Empty States B3. Heavy Eyes B4. Invitation To The Voyage B5. Tramontana

• Internal ID: JITRE
• Genre: Classical
• Format: Vinyl
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• Format Detail: LP Download Card Included
• Released: 2/8/19