Julie's Haircut - Our Secret Ceremony 2xCD / 2xLP

--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
ASP38 - A Silent Place 2009
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Our secret ceremony is the fifth album by Julie's Haircut. It features 15 tracks for 90 minutes worth of music. Released on the label A Silent Place and available as a double CD set, limited edition double LP and digital download, the new record by Julie's Haircut is a step further in the evolution of the band's sound, which has become always more open to the «collective» dimension, given the number of musicians that took part in the sessions and the everchanging line-up of players during the recordings. Musically, the record lives on the osmosis of different styles and approaches, from pop to electronica, from psychedelia to experimentation, still never lacking in coherence and unity. The first disc has a more classically orientated
song structure, accompanied by the second part which has a looser feel, though an accurate distinction between musical forms is really impossibile and out of place: even those tracks with a more conventional structure suggest immersions into the deepness of sound, and the long instrumental fugues always remain anchored to a solid harmonic and rhythmical structure. In a way, it's as if there are, throughout the entire album and in every single track, the two basic aspects of the creative process and, ultimately, of the human existence, living side by side: light and shadow, conscienceness and unconscienceness, reality and dream.
--- --- ---
• For a numerological interpretation
A numerological interpretation of the album is also possible, founded on the recurrance of the number 3 and its multiples. The album includes 15 tracks: the sum of the two figures gives 6. The first disc has 9 tracks, the second has 6: two multiples of 3, and two specular figures. According to the traditional interpretation of numerology, Three solves the contrasts created by the polarity of Two, giving a result of a new integration and a sense of entirety. The visibile world is three dimensional and mind, body and spirit together form a human being. Three indicates development and learning through life's experiences, it is linked to faith and knowledge.

Tracklist:
• part 1 - sermons
Sleepwalker / The Shadow, Our Home / The Stain / The Devil In Kate Moss / The Dead Will Walk The Earth / Origins / Mean Affair / Mountain Tea Traders / Let The Oracle Speak
• part 2 - liturgy
La Macchina Universale / The Devil In Kate Moss Part ii: Exorcism / Hidden Channels Of The Mind / Breakfast With The Lobster / Ceremony / They Came To Me