i have a new record “Something in the Room She Moves” coming out March 22 🪼🐠🪼preorder available now (link in bio) @dominorecordco in the past few years, among other things, I’ve watched a lot of the classic Ghibli film Ponyo, about a fish who turns into a human. i spent some time thinking about human states of change, trying to create a realm that’s waterlike, fluid, evoking the body’s internal sound world. the body and transformation were on my mind, as well as the pleasure and pain that can come out of the deepest forms of love. This record is dedicated to the memory of my beautiful nephew Calder Powell Excited and moved to share the magnificent cover art by childhood friend @cequarles whose incredible work I am always grateful for New song “Spinning” out now with a crazy magic video by the great @giraffestudios North American tour dates are on sale Friday. presale begins tomorrow Jan 10 at 10am local. pw: ChAiTiUs4eva Photo by @camille_blake Produced and arranged by Julia Holter Co-produced, engineered, and mixed by @kennethjohngilmore Mastered by @heba_kadry @beth_goodfellow – drums, percussion @dev_hoff – fretless bass, double bass Julia Holter – voice, keyboards @suitesweetz – flute, piccolo @chrisspeed11 – saxophone, clarinet @tashiwada – synths, bagpipes With additional contributions by @sarahbellereid (trumpet and electronics); and @nitejewel, @jessikakenney, and @miadoitodd (voice) Assistant engineers: @tyler_karmen and @gemmacastro__ Recorded at 64 Sound and 101 Recording, Los Angeles Album art by @cequarles Insert photo by @dicky_bahto Design by Matthew Cooper
i have a new record “Something in the Room She Moves” coming out March 22 🪼🐠🪼preorder available now (link in bio) @dominorecordco in the past few years, among other things, I’ve watched a lot of the classic Ghibli film Ponyo, about a fish who turns into a human. i spent some time thinking about human states of change, trying to create a realm that’s waterlike, fluid, evoking the body’s internal sound world. the body and transformation were on my mind, as well as the pleasure and pain that can come out of the deepest forms of love. This record is dedicated to the memory of my beautiful nephew Calder Powell Excited and moved to share the magnificent cover art by childhood friend @cequarles whose incredible work I am always grateful for New song “Spinning” out now with a crazy magic video by the great @giraffestudios North American tour dates are on sale Friday. presale begins tomorrow Jan 10 at 10am local. pw: ChAiTiUs4eva Photo by @camille_blake Produced and arranged by Julia Holter Co-produced, engineered, and mixed by @kennethjohngilmore Mastered by @heba_kadry @beth_goodfellow – drums, percussion @dev_hoff – fretless bass, double bass Julia Holter – voice, keyboards @suitesweetz – flute, piccolo @chrisspeed11 – saxophone, clarinet @tashiwada – synths, bagpipes With additional contributions by @sarahbellereid (trumpet and electronics); and @nitejewel, @jessikakenney, and @miadoitodd (voice) Assistant engineers: @tyler_karmen and @gemmacastro__ Recorded at 64 Sound and 101 Recording, Los Angeles Album art by @cequarles Insert photo by @dicky_bahto Design by Matthew Cooper
i have a new record “Something in the Room She Moves” coming out March 22 🪼🐠🪼preorder available now (link in bio) @dominorecordco in the past few years, among other things, I’ve watched a lot of the classic Ghibli film Ponyo, about a fish who turns into a human. i spent some time thinking about human states of change, trying to create a realm that’s waterlike, fluid, evoking the body’s internal sound world. the body and transformation were on my mind, as well as the pleasure and pain that can come out of the deepest forms of love. This record is dedicated to the memory of my beautiful nephew Calder Powell Excited and moved to share the magnificent cover art by childhood friend @cequarles whose incredible work I am always grateful for New song “Spinning” out now with a crazy magic video by the great @giraffestudios North American tour dates are on sale Friday. presale begins tomorrow Jan 10 at 10am local. pw: ChAiTiUs4eva Photo by @camille_blake Produced and arranged by Julia Holter Co-produced, engineered, and mixed by @kennethjohngilmore Mastered by @heba_kadry @beth_goodfellow – drums, percussion @dev_hoff – fretless bass, double bass Julia Holter – voice, keyboards @suitesweetz – flute, piccolo @chrisspeed11 – saxophone, clarinet @tashiwada – synths, bagpipes With additional contributions by @sarahbellereid (trumpet and electronics); and @nitejewel, @jessikakenney, and @miadoitodd (voice) Assistant engineers: @tyler_karmen and @gemmacastro__ Recorded at 64 Sound and 101 Recording, Los Angeles Album art by @cequarles Insert photo by @dicky_bahto Design by Matthew Cooper
i have a new record “Something in the Room She Moves” coming out March 22 🪼🐠🪼preorder available now (link in bio) @dominorecordco in the past few years, among other things, I’ve watched a lot of the classic Ghibli film Ponyo, about a fish who turns into a human. i spent some time thinking about human states of change, trying to create a realm that’s waterlike, fluid, evoking the body’s internal sound world. the body and transformation were on my mind, as well as the pleasure and pain that can come out of the deepest forms of love. This record is dedicated to the memory of my beautiful nephew Calder Powell Excited and moved to share the magnificent cover art by childhood friend @cequarles whose incredible work I am always grateful for New song “Spinning” out now with a crazy magic video by the great @giraffestudios North American tour dates are on sale Friday. presale begins tomorrow Jan 10 at 10am local. pw: ChAiTiUs4eva Photo by @camille_blake Produced and arranged by Julia Holter Co-produced, engineered, and mixed by @kennethjohngilmore Mastered by @heba_kadry @beth_goodfellow – drums, percussion @dev_hoff – fretless bass, double bass Julia Holter – voice, keyboards @suitesweetz – flute, piccolo @chrisspeed11 – saxophone, clarinet @tashiwada – synths, bagpipes With additional contributions by @sarahbellereid (trumpet and electronics); and @nitejewel, @jessikakenney, and @miadoitodd (voice) Assistant engineers: @tyler_karmen and @gemmacastro__ Recorded at 64 Sound and 101 Recording, Los Angeles Album art by @cequarles Insert photo by @dicky_bahto Design by Matthew Cooper
@weareumaw has been doing some serious work on this streaming issue. Join us 🌈 Repost • @weareumaw One stat you won’t find in your Spotify Wrapped is how much artists are paid for all that listening on the platform. The max possible in 2023 is $0.003 per stream. And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying anything AT ALL for 2/3 of the tracks on the platform. Spotify gets away with this fuzzy math because there is no regulation over streaming. UMAW is working to change that, and we have big plans for 2024. Join us!
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behind the scenes of “Spinning” video by @giraffestudios 🎠🎠🎠 photos: @giraffestudios
behind the scenes of “Spinning” video by @giraffestudios 🎠🎠🎠 photos: @giraffestudios
behind the scenes of “Spinning” video by @giraffestudios 🎠🎠🎠 photos: @giraffestudios
behind the scenes of “Spinning” video by @giraffestudios 🎠🎠🎠 photos: @giraffestudios
behind the scenes of “Spinning” video by @giraffestudios 🎠🎠🎠 photos: @giraffestudios
“Something in the Room She Moves” limited edition 2xLP on clear vinyl. Comes with special photo by @dicky_bahto signed by me 🪼 UK pre-orders have a chance to attend a special listening event in London Feb 1. Anyone in the UK who pre-orders by the 19th is entered for a chance to attend So excited for the art on this record 🦑 Album art by @cequarles Insert photo by @dicky_bahto Design by @mistermrbcooper
“Something in the Room She Moves” limited edition 2xLP on clear vinyl. Comes with special photo by @dicky_bahto signed by me 🪼 UK pre-orders have a chance to attend a special listening event in London Feb 1. Anyone in the UK who pre-orders by the 19th is entered for a chance to attend So excited for the art on this record 🦑 Album art by @cequarles Insert photo by @dicky_bahto Design by @mistermrbcooper
all North American dates on sale now juliaholter.com
small group of shows coming up next Spring with @dev_hoff @beth_goodfellow @tashiwada @kennethjohngilmore 🪐🪐🪐 flyer: Matthew Cooper photo: @camille_blake
from a @wawog_now event Jan 18: hundreds of Angelenos gathered for a vigil at Echo Park Lake to mourn and honor the lives of the writers, scholars, journalists, and poets among Gaza’s martyrs. This is an excerpt of Fariha Roisin reading “I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada (32, killed in her home in Khan Younis Oct 20 by Israeli airstrike) Hiba Abu Nada (trans. Huda Fakhreddine) 1. I grant you refuge in invocation and prayer. I bless the neighborhood and the minaret to guard them from the rocket from the moment it is a general’s command until it becomes a raid. I grant you and the little ones refuge, the little ones who change the rocket’s course before it lands with their smiles. 2. I grant you and the little ones refuge, the little ones now asleep like chicks in a nest. They don’t walk in their sleep toward dreams. They know death lurks outside the house. Their mothers’ tears are now doves following them, trailing behind every coffin. 3. I grant the father refuge, the little ones’ father who holds the house upright when it tilts after the bombs. He implores the moment of death: “Have mercy. Spare me a little while. For their sake, I’ve learned to love my life. Grant them a death as beautiful as they are.” 4. I grant you refuge from hurt and death, refuge in the glory of our siege, here in the belly of the whale. Our streets exalt God with every bomb. They pray for the mosques and the houses. And every time the bombing begins in the North, our supplications rise in the South. 5. I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering. With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous and the shades of cloud from the smog. I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh. A printed manifesto, collectively written by members of WAWOG’s Los Angeles chapter, was distributed to the crowd. Excerpts below: WE ARE 100 DAYS IN AND STILL WE HAVE NOT ACHIEVED A CEASEFIRE. JOURNALISTS, WRITERS, POETS, AND SCHOLARS ARE BEING TARGETED BECAUSE THEY ARE THE KEEPERS OF LIVING HISTORY. WE DEMAND A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE, AN END TO ISRAEL’S SIEGE ON GAZA, AND AN END TO OCCUPATION NOW.
from a @wawog_now event Jan 18: hundreds of Angelenos gathered for a vigil at Echo Park Lake to mourn and honor the lives of the writers, scholars, journalists, and poets among Gaza’s martyrs. This is an excerpt of Fariha Roisin reading “I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada (32, killed in her home in Khan Younis Oct 20 by Israeli airstrike) Hiba Abu Nada (trans. Huda Fakhreddine) 1. I grant you refuge in invocation and prayer. I bless the neighborhood and the minaret to guard them from the rocket from the moment it is a general’s command until it becomes a raid. I grant you and the little ones refuge, the little ones who change the rocket’s course before it lands with their smiles. 2. I grant you and the little ones refuge, the little ones now asleep like chicks in a nest. They don’t walk in their sleep toward dreams. They know death lurks outside the house. Their mothers’ tears are now doves following them, trailing behind every coffin. 3. I grant the father refuge, the little ones’ father who holds the house upright when it tilts after the bombs. He implores the moment of death: “Have mercy. Spare me a little while. For their sake, I’ve learned to love my life. Grant them a death as beautiful as they are.” 4. I grant you refuge from hurt and death, refuge in the glory of our siege, here in the belly of the whale. Our streets exalt God with every bomb. They pray for the mosques and the houses. And every time the bombing begins in the North, our supplications rise in the South. 5. I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering. With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous and the shades of cloud from the smog. I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh. A printed manifesto, collectively written by members of WAWOG’s Los Angeles chapter, was distributed to the crowd. Excerpts below: WE ARE 100 DAYS IN AND STILL WE HAVE NOT ACHIEVED A CEASEFIRE. JOURNALISTS, WRITERS, POETS, AND SCHOLARS ARE BEING TARGETED BECAUSE THEY ARE THE KEEPERS OF LIVING HISTORY. WE DEMAND A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE, AN END TO ISRAEL’S SIEGE ON GAZA, AND AN END TO OCCUPATION NOW.
“Spinning” feels for me like a seeking of the night, where visions present themselves to us from the ether and we are compelled to make stuff. Also an appreciation for Robert Wyatt’s “Sea Song”. Night, darkness, water, swimming But desiring this fruitful state of mind yet sometimes being stuck in the awkward bright day, without vision and with only fatigue from the everyday/external—that can be interesting in of itself! Maybe we can bring the day to the night Thankful always to @kennethjohngilmore working on this whole thing with me @beth_goodfellow —drums, percussion @dev_hoff —fretless bass @juliaholter —voice, Yamaha CS-60, Hammond C3, Prophet 6, drum programming @chrisspeed11 —tenor saxophone @tashiwada —Prophet 6 Hélène Cixous provided the song’s inspiration (“Writing Blind”): “the night vibrates, I see with my ears, I advance into the bosom of the world, hands in front, capturing the music with my palms, until something breathes under the pen’s beak. (I’ve just written these lines eyelids closed as usual, because the day and its huge light keeps us from seeing what is germinating.)” @giraffestudios instantly got all of this vibe and sent over brilliant and inspired ideas and somehow found this parachute that many of us recall from our childhood running around under, and which is delightfully heavy to try to crawl in. It was the perfect thing to move around with, the star/starfish for this song, thank you so much to @giraffestudios and the team who made this dizzy magic happen A Giraffe Studios x Choxiee Production @giraffestudios @choxiee Directed: Juliana and Nicola Giraffe @giraffestudios @julianagiraffe @nickygiraffe Produced by: @choxiee Director of photography: Jeremy Mackie @jeremymackie Colorist: Zoe Lambert @silverlakecowgirl Hair and Make-up: Stephanie Nicole Smith @stephanienicolesmith Production Design & wardrobe Giraffe Studios First AC Jason Knoll Gaffer Justin Garcia Key Grip Jeremiah Magan Wardrobe / Art Assistant Sophia Odegaard @odegaards Art Assistant Emily Ritz @lumpland PA Newman Wolf @newmanwolfforever
i interviewed artist and friend Tammy Nguyễn @tnpain about her art practice, with a focus on animation and her recent video for my song “Sun Girl”. ignoring the obstacle of my objectively annoying speaking voice to share some highlights (link to full interview in bio. and apologies for low res clips here, the full “Sun Girl” music video is so vibrant and beautiful, check it out if you haven’t yet 🪐🙏🏼❤️)
i interviewed artist and friend Tammy Nguyễn @tnpain about her art practice, with a focus on animation and her recent video for my song “Sun Girl”. ignoring the obstacle of my objectively annoying speaking voice to share some highlights (link to full interview in bio. and apologies for low res clips here, the full “Sun Girl” music video is so vibrant and beautiful, check it out if you haven’t yet 🪐🙏🏼❤️)
i interviewed artist and friend Tammy Nguyễn @tnpain about her art practice, with a focus on animation and her recent video for my song “Sun Girl”. ignoring the obstacle of my objectively annoying speaking voice to share some highlights (link to full interview in bio. and apologies for low res clips here, the full “Sun Girl” music video is so vibrant and beautiful, check it out if you haven’t yet 🪐🙏🏼❤️)
excerpt from “Sun Girl” video by @tnpain “You know, sunsets are violently beautiful, I would say that they are so by definition, but there are lights, not even colorful in the habitual sense, lights elemental, mercurial, silvery, sulfurous, copper-made, that make us stop, then lose balance, make us open our arms not knowing what else to do, arrest us as if struck by lightning, a soft lightning, a welcome one. Wait for those lights, I know some of you do too, wherever you are…” —Etel Adnan “Shifting the Silence”
Joining my partner @tashiwada performing his music for the first time in Tokyo on Dec 18, alongside a set by friend and hero @laurelhalo and Riki Hadaka Presented by MODE and supported by Regenerative Circle Yodobashi Church, Tokyo December 18, 2023 Laurel Halo presents Atlas Tashi Wada with Julia Holter Riki Hidaka https://mode.zaiko.io/item/360836
new @malinisridharan record “Tombeaux” is out now 🌛🌛🌛 Brooklyn-based composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Malini Sridharan and I go way back, to our medieval-centered pop duo “The Remarkable Thing About Swans”, playing on friend’s porches in Michigan. Since, she has crafted an extraordinary collection of albums that feel much like song cycles, including her latest— “Tombeaux”, out now. It’s a passionate reflection on the human experience of the many facets of death—including reimaginings of the work of Mirabai and Ursula K. Le Guin—all brought out through Sridharan’s colorful instrumental arrangements for large ensemble. Was a joy to produce this very special record. Link in bio Vocals, vibraphone, bells, sitar, bassoon – Malini Sridharan French horn – Nikita Solberg Trumpet – Kate Amrine Euphonium – Chris Piro Trombone – Julie Dombroski Tuba – Heather Ewer Oboe – Lily Pfeifer Flute – Leia Slosberg Clarinet – Ford Fourqurean and Allison Heim Bassoon – Sara Schoenbeck Cello – Lenna Pierce Violin and viola – Concetta Abbate Bass – James Gibson Piano – Jon-Michael Reese Production – Julia Holter Mix and Master – Ryan Beppel Design – Jules Evens Photography – Roc Morin Recorded by Lorenzo Wolff at Restoration Sound
