This is the debut album by soloist singer Julia Volkova schedule to be released March 4th. Julia was a singer in the multi-platinum electronic band ElectroDeath, where she spent twelve years releasing four records and selling over 35 million copies worldwide.
After some internal fights due to creative conflicts in ElectroDeath, Julia decided to leave the band alleging that she no longer had anything to add for the band’s future music, so she was quitting it for a good cause. She finished the worldwide tour ‘WICCA’ responsible to promote ElectroDeath’s album ‘The Sun Will Rise’ and signed a deal with ‘Angel Music Records’.
The album will receive a special deluxe edition, with three more tracks then the usual twelve. This edition will be released with a special DVD, where Julia recorded an interview speaking about each song on the album and its meaning.
Background and Production
Julia began working on the album while she was recording ElectroDeath’s album ‘The Sun Will Rise’, back at that time, several songs she had written for ElectroDeath was declined by her band mates and manager due to them being differently from the main theme choose for ‘The Sun Will Rise’. But instead of leaving those songs behind, Julia was encourage by her longtime producer partner Danja to record them and maybe use them for a solo project, that’s when all the speculations of Julia’s solo career began, but in the beginning everything was denied by the band and their manager, now revealed that it was denied due to promotion conflicts that a declaration of that would make for the release of ElectroDeath’s album.
Julia passed the entire ’WICCA’ tour writing and producing her solo project secretly, she even rented separated hotel rooms, so she could place all her stuff for recording the demos and working on the album, this was reported by the media in that time, but it was interpreted as a fight the girls had, something denied after Julia kept performing on the tour till it ends in December.
In January Julia had around 20 demos of songs that she recorded and instead of looking for a label to enter the studio she decided to defray the recording sections for the album herself so she could just search for a label to promote and distribute the album when it was already finished. She recorded the entire album on Sound Recording Studios in New York, with a bunch of new musicians she contracted to become her support band, but without any producer once she produced the entire album herself. From the 20 demos she had, She finished the recording sections with fifteen songs.
On January, Julia released independently her very first single. The song ‘Sweet Decline’ was the main reasons that lead Julia to sign a deal with ‘Angel Music Records’ due to its strong impact on mainstream radios and digital sales. Its accompanying music video was shot on Paramount Studios topped the Music Box top ten countdown and well reached the third position on digital video sales. After Julia had signed a deal with ‘Angel Music Records’, they spread the promotion of her then independent single, making it top the Digital Chart and also reach the number two on the airplay charts.
Julia revealed the name and cover of her album on February exclusive for Culture Uncut, and weeks after this, the website leaked online the supposed track listening of the album.
Lyrics and Themes
Julia showed a brief of three songs presented in the album in a short appearance she made on Ryan Secrets Radio show. All the songs are about relationship between humans, but not only as lovers but also as parents or friends. The main theme of the album is a self-knowledge of Julia’s own feeling, such as hate or love and also the way she connect with people around her.
Tracks about love relationship like ‘Sweet Decline’, ‘As I used to’ or ‘Guilty on me’ can be related to the troubled Julia’s personal life, who has had several affairs with famous musicians like Katie Coyle, back the time Katie was heavily criticized about having two girlfriends at the same time.
Other themes on the album are bias, self-help and death. All of the songs are basically pop rock songs influenced, with some electronic effects but everything was done to praise the amazing vocal ability of Julia, which was disguised while she was singing on ElectroDeath.
Julia Volkova comments
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This is the work of my life, well at least the work of my life right now! I never felt so freely before, everything was done because I wanted that to be done, there weren’t anyone telling me how to make my music, or saying what was plausible and what was useless. I don’t want to get in of what happens with ElectroDeath, I just want to let this album makes you all think why I quit ElectroDeath, here are all the answers you want to know. It doesn’t took me so much time to write or to produce it, because every song came so naturally and spontaneous to me, I was not obeyed to go on a studio and make up music from nothing, everything just came from inside my heart. And I’m so glad to give you this album! Enjoy it.’
Edited by user 16 August 2012 23:49:01(UTC)
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