Presented in collaboration with Liquid Music
Friday, May 13, 2022
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
$50 VIP (includes premium seating and a complimentary Liquid Music-inspired cocktail or mocktail)
$35 Preferred Reserved
$25 Advance General Admission
All Ages
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Liquid Music at The Parkway presents Julianna Barwick in support of her critically-acclaimed 2020 album release, Healing Is A Miracle. Opening the night is a set by French electronic artist, Malibu.
[On Healing Is A Miracle] “A warm, shifting collection that doesn’t so much anticipate the current moment as adapt to it: it’s a medium for the unconscious, a salve for the collective wound. At a time when healing feels impossible, Barwick asks us to picture it together.”
- Pitchfork
“Barwick stretches, loops and layers her voice to interweave harmoniously with the other instrumentation at play, creating a recognisable ethereal effect that feels totally her own.”
- Loud and Quiet
Julianna Barwick is a Los Angeles based composer, vocalist, and producer who makes deep, reflective compositions rooted in the human voice. Over the years she has made six critically acclaimed records. Her self-released debut “Sanguine” came out in 2007, followed by "Florine" in 2009, and “The Magic Place” in 2011. In 2013, she released "Nepenthe," which marked Barwick’s first steps into collaborating, working with producer and film composer Alex Somers in Reykjavík. She expanded her parameters further on “Will,” her 2016 album, enlisting more collaborators in Mas Ysa's Thomas Arsenault, Dutch cellist Maarten Vos, and Chairlift percussionist Jamie Ingalls. In July 2020 she released "Healing Is A Miracle," which featured Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Mary Lattimore, and Nosaj Thing, earning Pitchfork's coveted 'Best New Music' for 2020.
A distinctive meditation on sound, reverb and the voice, “Healing Is A Miracle” is built on improvisation and a close affinity to a couple of trusted items of gear, from which Barwick spins engrossing, expansive universes.
Additionally, Barwick draws on the input of three collaborators with whom she has nurtured deep friendships with over the years: Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Nosaj Thing and Mary Lattimore; who each gently nudge out at the edges of her organically-evolved sound.
Recorded in the wake of a seismic shift in her life following a move from New York—where she had lived for 16 years—to Los Angeles where she is now based, the title of the record came to her after thinking about how the human body heals itself, of the miraculous processes we pay little attention to: You cut your hand, it looks pretty bad, and two weeks later it looks like it never happened… That’s kind of amazing, you know? It’s a sentiment that feels particularly apt for the moment. From there, she conceived of the record’s simple statement title, ran it past a couple of friends, and it was settled. Like with the record itself, and all of her work, it’s about following her gut, and seeing where it takes her.
Julianna has played shows with Yoko Ono, The Flaming Lips, Philip Glass, Tim Hecker, Grouper, Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius and more. Her many collaborations include, among others, the NYC dance company balletcollective, Ecstatic Music Festival, and an EP with Rafael Anton Isarri, on the super-limited Thesis label. She released “Circumstance Synthesis” EP, on RVNG Intl. sub-label Commend There, which were excerpts from a lobby score in partnership with Microsoft A.I., that responded to the environment in the downtown sky from New York’s Sister City Hotel, in 2019.
Julianna took a natural step into the world of composing for film when she co-scored the short film I Remember Nothing. She has since gone on to score a number of short films and documentaries and is now more actively pursuing this area of her career, taking on more scoring opportunities alongside her artist work.
Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal. Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodic chord progressions, Malibu's sound is a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. "One Life" is her first record and most matured work, released in November 2019 on both Joyful Noise Recordings and Uno Nyc.
Special thanks to our hospitality sponsor the Minneapolis Club.
