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Julianna Barwick

American musician

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name	Julianna Barwick
image	Julianna Barwick.jpg
caption	Barwick in 2010
origin	Louisiana, U.S
genre
occupation	Musician
years_active	2006–present
label
current_member_of	Ombre
website

Julianna Barwick is an American ambient musician who composes using electronic loops and layered vocals. Her music is primarily choral in nature. Her debut studio album, The Magic Place, was released in 2011.

Music career

Barwick has said that her music is influenced by her participation in church choir while growing up in Louisiana. She composes with a machine to create electronic loops built around her vocalizing.

She self-released her debut EP, Sanguine, in 2006. The songs are wordless with vocal overdubs, vocal percussion, and improvisation. On the EP, Florine, she uses a loop station and pedals to create minimalist repetition accompanied by layers of vocals and synthesizers. In 2010, Barwick was commissioned to remix "Reckoner" by Radiohead. During the next year, she released an album of improvisational music, FRKWYS Vol. 6, with Ikue Mori.

She recorded her first full-length album, The Magic Place, on a rehearsal stage because it was soundproof and had a piano. The title of the album refers to a tree on her family's farm that was big enough to crawl into, as though the tree contained rooms shaped by the trunk and branches. In 2012, she formed the duo Ombre with Helado Negro and recorded the album Believe You Me.

The title of her second album, Nepenthe, was inspired by the death of a relative. The name comes from the drug of forgetfulness found in ancient Greek literature and the work of Edgar Allan Poe. The album features the string ensemble Amiina and a choir of teenage girls.

In 2016, the song "Nebula", from her third album Will premiered on NPR. A music video directed by Derrick Belcham was shot at the historic Philip Johnson Glass House.

On December 20, 2019, she released an EP, titled Circumstance Synthesis, and in July 2020 she released her fourth album Healing Is a Miracle.

In 2026, Barwick released a collaborative album with Mary Lattimore, titled Tragic Magic, through InFiné.

Discography

Solo studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions	US Heat.	New Age Albums	The Magic Place	Nepenthe	Will	Healing Is a Miracle
	—	4
	25	3
	21	3
	—	—

Collaborative studio albums

Title	Album details	FRKWYS Vol. 6 (with Ikue Mori)	Believe You Me (with Helado Negro, as Ombre)	Tragic Magic (with Mary Lattimore)

EPs

Title	Details	Sanguine	Florine	Matrimony Remixes	Pacing	Rosabi	Circumstance Synthesis

References

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"Julianna Barwick + Discography". Juliannabarwick.com.
Howe, Brian. "Pitchfork". Pitchfork.
Howe, Brian. "Ikue Mori / Julianna Barwick". Pitchfork.
Vogl, Tamara. "Beat". Beat.
(2011-02-22). "The Magic Place | Asthmatic Kitty Records". Asthmatickitty.com.
(2012-06-21). "Believe You Me".
Cooper, Duncan. "Julianna Barwick and Helado Negro". Fader.
Pelly, Jenn. (15 May 2013). "Listen: Julianna Barwick: "Forever", From New Album Nepenthe". Pitchfork.
Hilton, Robin. "First Watch: Julianna Barwick: "Nebula", From New Album Will". NPR.
Mackay, Emily. (2020-07-12). "Julianna Barwick: Healing Is a Miracle review – balm for the soul". The Observer.
"Tragic Magic by Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore".
"Julianna Barwick".

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