PRAISE FOR New album GIVERNY
“Giverny is a defining moment of Loida’s career. It’s a lasting portrait that captures the artist as a realized creative entity.
Where Loida’s chosen genre — new age, neoclassical, ambient, whichever you like — can encroach on the monotonous, Giverny remains fresh at every juncture.
The uniqueness of Loida’s musicianship sparks energy into the meditative quality of Giverny. While each of its eleven songs are driven by piano, its immaculate orchestration breathes complex life into each piece."
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“Between gentle romance and light euphoria”
-Gezeitenstrom Musikmagazin
“plays the piano like a percussionist and percussion like a pianist”
-MAZIK
“Very playful piano theme takes far beyond dream land. Its progression feels warm and cold at the same time. Layering sounds that are soft expands this soundscapes so well. Chanting vocal creates more depth within the composition, perfectly balancing between the piano theme and the strings that comes as a peak moment.”
-NAGAMAG
“Julian Loida is a fantastic composer and pianist from Boston, showing that the classical genre sure isn’t dead yet!”
-york calling
More press on Giverny:
INTERVIEW WITH HIGH PLAINS PUBLIC
RADIO ON JULIAN’S NEW MINI-DOC
”MY GENTLE HARP”
Official Selection at 2021 First Friday Film Festival
"“I think a lot of people who love the music haven’t heard it yet,” said Loida, 28. He hopes a virtual fest will prompt a new audience of internet browsers who might not “know they like it yet, or know the depth of it yet, to start to uncover how deep this tradition is,” he said. “[W]e saw it earlier with hip-hop, where people were digging back further and further...going back to early funk, discovering that stuff.”"
“21CM Takeaway: Julian Loida’s work is heavily influenced by his synesthesia – a condition in which sensory signals get crossed – and that influence can be experienced throughout “Wallflower.” Vibraphone is featured on each track, combined with piano, voice and samples to create an intimate soundscape.”
— 21 CM
"His album Wallflower is beautifully reverberant and roomy, swimming effortlessly between minimalist, R&B, electronic, folk, and jazz influences...he washes us in rich, driving soundscapes that carry so that you can’t help but listen beginning to end."
“Percussionist, composer, and programmer Loida is easily one of the Boston music scene’s most valuable players. But while he’s usually to be found helping others sound good, tonight he’ll be presenting music from his new LP, Wallflower, a mesmerizing collection of original compositions for solo vibraphone.”
"Our tools have changed to make and consume music, but we still need it to feed our spirit and soul."
"Julian Loida has synesthesia, which means that he often feels colors and textures when listening to sounds, integrating it into his compositional process as a visual aid into the creation of musical paintings. This means that the vibraphone, while obviously central to the album, is but an instrument for an emotional exploration that includes samples of other, different sounds."