Julia Holter

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Los Angeles-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter blurs the boundaries between indie music, modern composition, and electronic music in her own work as well as her collaborations, which include work with Nite Jewel's Ramona Gonzalez and underground folk icon Linda Perhacs. Holter grew up in a musically inclined family -- her father is a guitarist who once played with Pete Seeger -- and studied electronic music at CalArts. After graduation, she began releasing music at a prolific rate: in 2008, she contributed tracks to Monika's 4 Women No Cry, Vol. 3 as well as a Human Ear compilation and released the CD-R album Cookbook on Sleepy Mammal Sound. The following year, Holter began working with the Dublab collective, appearing on a volume of their In the Loop series of vinyl compilations and performing with the Linda Perhacs Band. The fruits of another one of her projects, phonetically translating songs performed in languages other than English, were on display on 2010's "Why Sad Song," her interpretation of a Burmese lament that appeared on the Beaterblocker #2 collection (which also featured tracks by Keith Fullerton Whitman and Eluvium). That year, Holter also released the CD-R Celebration on Engraved Glass Records and a collection of live recordings on NNA Tapes. However, all of this activity was just a warm-up for her first full-fledged album, 2011's Tragedy, which was released by Leaving Records. Inspired by Euripides' play Hippolytus, the album melded tweaked electronics with classical and pop elements that earned critical acclaim from avant and underground music publications, both online and in print. Soon after Tragedy's release came Ekstasis, a lighter and more accessible but still complex song cycle that arrived in March 2012. By the time of that album's release, Holter already had a third album, tentatively titled Gigi, waiting in the wings. On top of her busy music schedule, she also found time to tutor teenagers in South Central L.A. as part of a nonprofit organization. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi

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  • Jun 9 Sunday
    Culver City, CA, US Fanatic Salon Theatre
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  • Jul 11 Thursday
    Washington, DC, US Sixth & I Synagogue
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  • Jul 12 Friday
    New York, NY, US Le Poisson Rouge
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  • Jul 13 Saturday
    Philadelphia, PA, US Downstairs, World Café Live
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  • Jul 14 Sunday
    Boston, MA, US Church of Boston
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  • Jul 17 Wednesday
    Toronto, ON, Canada The Drake Hotel
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  • Jul 19 Friday
    Chicago, IL, US Union Park
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  • Aug 5 Monday
    Vienna, Austria WUK Werkstätten- u Kulturhaus
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    Helsinki, Finland Unknown venue
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    Haldern, Germany Alter Reitplatz
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  • Aug 9 Friday
    Hamburg, Germany Kampnagel
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  • Aug 13 Tuesday
    Ghent, Belgium Festivalterrein Aan Dok Gent
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  • Aug 14 Wednesday
    Saint-Malo, France La Nouvelle Vague
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  • Aug 15 Thursday
    Powys, UK Unknown venue
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Discography

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  • Ekstasis (2012)
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    Ekstasis (2012)
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  • Tragedy (2011)
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    Tragedy (2011)
    Leaving Records
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