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CMU Approved
Approved: Julia Kent
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 5 October 2015
It’s good to start Monday with something a bit calming. Although the track I’ve placed at the end of this Approved column, by cellist Julia Kent, is taken from an album themed around difficulty and conflict. So, let’s hope I’m not prophesying your week here.
Kent’s latest album, ‘Asperity’, is due for release though The Leaf Label on 30 Oct. Its title is a word that can relate to roughness in anything from temper to a physical surface. “I was thinking about the concept of difficulty. Whether in life or in nature – of conflict, of being troubled. The idea of friction”, explains Kent. “Also in geology, an asperity is some part of a fault line that doesn’t move that can create an earthquake, which is an evocative concept”.
Kent is a member of Rasputina and Antony & The Johnsons, as well as an in demand session musician and film composer, and ‘Asperity’ is her fourth solo album. Using layers and loops of cello, electronic and found sounds, she creates an engrossing exploration of friction and release. And here, as promised, is something more on the latter side of that coin, ‘Initiation To The Voyage’:
