Created by Lin Gardiner, Julia Sound is a BC music collective that is 100% female written, performed and produced – with further diversity focusing on Bi-POC and/or LGBTQ2S+ artists. For this debut single, Gardiner created a lighter sounding hip hop beat, which has a melancholic undercurrent. Megasonic appears on the track, and the featured hook singer, Keely Halward, added her soulful folk voice for a memorable chorus. For the EP, Gardiner collaborated with different singers and rappers for each song, creating a collection of evocative, ethereal, electronica-based, vocal-led music. Gardiner has always been drawn to and influenced by bands like Massive Attack, Tricky and Leftfield, and has followed in their footsteps with this approach of different featured performers on each of the tracks.
Inspiration for the project’s name is from ‘Julia Sound’ – an unexplained sound discovered by scientists in the 90’s, most likely created by the shifting of an iceberg on the ocean floor. The sample that exists of that sound is mysterious and dark.
