Delay (released by Important Records on September 18, 2007) is Julia Kent’s debut solo album.Julia is a super cool Canadian cellist best known as one of Antony’s Johnsons but she has also been part of the cello group Rasputina and I just saw her playing beautifully with a ambient-drone band Blind Cave Salamander (see my review on Last.fm).
I love the sound of the cello but even so I thought a solo album may be a bit on the heavy side.
The publicity for her debut also sounds a bit forbidding; this says that the record was :“Inspired by airports and the private emotional worlds that we create amid the disorientations and disjunctions of travel“.
Rest assured, however, that this is a warm and affirmative album where tracks are interspersed with ‘found sounds’ from airports making it a good record to listen to straight through and invent your own travel narrative while waiting for the plane.
