Julia Bloop - Uncut Carrara

January 16, 2021

Julia Bloop - Uncut Carrara

The fanfare of humankind exalted through decomposing fragments. Gentle and beautiful fused with forgotten mysteriousness. Extractions of drama glued over old paintings found in thrift stores. Feelings and emotions gracing canvas, now an adhesive foundation for more feelings and emotions from a different medium. This is how Uncut Carrara plays, an aural collage of vivid sonic passages resting just above a pristine electronic medium of depth and intrigue.

Julia Bloop listens and listens more. Spend the seventy five minutes to experience and explore the three tracts on her newest composition titled Uncut Carrara. Understanding will begin to develop. In the beginning and end of the title track Uncut Carrara, a stronger current persists. Samples from old films parting for the most subtle field recordings, all floating on an ocean of faintly colored organ sustain. The tranquil sonic doldrums of the middle of this piece create the foundational ambience. The second track, A Million and Seven Years tilts towards theatrical pinnacles. Opera, harp and theme songs from epic science fiction and adventure movies. Not all at once of course, gradually unfolding over the compositions twenty minute length. Metropolis is the third selection offered by Julia Bloop, inspired by Simon Liu's short film titled "Signal 8". These sounds place emphasis on raw energy and the engineered structures to both contain and use man's technological dance with destructive radiance. This piece would also work well for the 1927 film Metropolis, aurally giving sustenance to the toiling underbelly of high societies "valued" achievements.

Released on the Los Angeles cassette label KMAN 92.5, in an edition of fifty. Lost in a Sea of Sound has been fortunate with describing Julia Bloop's compositions. Roland Throop on Crash Symbols from 2017 and Out of the Bloop on Patient Sounds from 2019. Uncut Carrara posses a certain style Julia Bloop works in, but is notably uniquely different, although the album artwork on Out of the Bloop and Uncut Carrara are both by Simon Liu. Copies are currently available.