Delay

Julia Kent left Rasputina in 1999 and shortly thereafter became a member of Antony and the Johnsons. Her debut solo effort, Delay, is aCD of multitracked cello and found sounds. It was inspired by airports, by transitoriness, and by the private emotional worlds that we create amid the disorientations and disjunctions of travel. Delay was recorded over the course of a year (or so) at home in between touring and traveling. After so many years of playing with other people Julia felt that it was time to do something entirely on her own. As a result she is the sole composer/performer on all tracks. The title refers to both the effect, to traveling and to the fact that it took so long to record. It is also an homage to Arthur Russell's World Of Echo - a masterpiece of (among other things) externalizing the intimate.