Julia Holter

After studying music and graduating with a degree in composing, Milwaukee-born musician Julia Holter (18 December 1984) attended a performance by Michael Pisaro, one of the members of the renowned Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. Michael Pisaro's avant-garde experimentations inspired Holter to study with him at the California Institute of the Arts and after contributing to a number of recordings with fellow students and other artists, she began playing with Linda Perhacs, the self-styled psychedelic folk singer. Following on from these early collaborations, in 2011 Holter released her debut album Tragedy quickly followed up by Ekstasis in 2012. Favourable comparisons were soon being drawn between Julia Holter and established artists such as Kate Bush and Stereolab. These early albums were essentially solo projects, recorded at home but for her third album Loud City Song (2013), she drafted in a supporting ensemble of musicians. A measure of the respect Julia Holter has garnered within the world of experimental music is underlined by being invited by Jean-Michel Jarre to collaborate on one of the songs on his 2016 Electronica album while she has continued to hone her craft with successive albums such as 2015's Have You in My Wilderness, which reached number three on the US Heatseekers chart and fifth album Aviary (2018), for which she looked to the notion of memory for inspiration. She temporarily broke away from Domino Recording Company for her next album with Chicago string quartet Spektral Quartet and composer Alex Temple, whose Behind the Wallpaper record was released on Amsterdam Records in 2023. However, she returned to Domino for her sixth studio effort Something in the Room She Moves, which was released in March 2024 and co-produced by Julia Holter and Kenny Gilmore.

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