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Julian Velard
'The Movies Without You EP'
(Lucky014)
Released:24.09.07
This New Yorker (son of a French ATM designer and 4-Time Jeopardy
champion from Alabama) is a former video delivery boy to the stars,
who has taken the scenic route. He's worked a slew of bizarre jobs
to support himself, anything from teaching gym to kindergarteners,
to a stint with the Paris 'Department of Sanitation.' Wearing his
world weariness in a whisky baritone that's been compared, to both
sides of Tom (Waits and Jones) and all sorts of
Morrison (Van and Jim), Julian finds pop songs
in unlikely places: landmines, dinner plates, what you left behind
the couch, even visits to the zoo!
Produced by Roger Greenawalt (Ben Kweller, The Pierces)
over the summer of 2006 in Brooklyn, 'The Movies Without
You' is Julian's weird brand of classic psych, as
in psychiatric, piano pop, 2007-cum-1979 style 'Rock and Roll.'
It's a sensitive brew, in which he played most of the instruments,
yet managed to feature all his musical geek friends, including members
of Groove Collective, Antibalas, Fine Arts Militia,
and power-pop maestro Bleu. Turning the singer-songwriter
genre headlong, Julian outlawed guitar from the studio, opting instead
for textures like melodica, glockenspiel, ukulele, and clarinet.
The EP is about his love of the movies, about watching them over
and over, till your life feels like one. Listen to the opening track
'Jimmy Dean And Steve McQueen', with its tyre screeches,
sleigh bells, baseball organ and handclaps, and you know right away
this kid is still under the spell of his 1986 native New York Mets! 'Joni'
is Hollywood at it's most seductive, but on Julian's terms, it's
modern romanticism dressed in soaring strings & funky clavinet
as played by classic period Stevie Wonder. You
can prepare for 'A Dream', but you won't be ready!
It's the most tortuous juxtaposition of fantasy in reality, a touchstone
of sensitivity, & then the 'Little Demons'
return, unabashed, bouncing & smiling at every exhilarant honest
reflection of the day that comes from Julian's mouth.
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CD (Lucky014CD)
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Jimmy Dean & Steve McQueen
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Joni
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A Dream
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Little Demons
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