Julie's Haircut

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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 ever-changing 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.
"In every chaos there's a cosmos, in every mess a secret order" (Carl Gustav Jung)