Julia Holter in conversation with Richard King

Chameleonic LA composer and multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter has shape-shifted before our eyes since 2006, moving between indie, electronica, art pop, and chamber pop, between studios and outdoor settings, between ancient Greek tragedians and twentieth century American poets. Her imminent sixth album Something In The Room She Moves is an equally fluid exploration of melody and voice, and of “being in the passionate state of making something: being in that moment, and what is that moment?”  At Green Man, Julia sat down with Richard King to discuss his latest book, Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life, a landmark publication celebrating the life and work of one of the twentieth-century’s true musical visionaries.  Richard King is the author of Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade and Times Book of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (Sunday Times Music Book of the Year), The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize) and, Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97, all published by Faber & Faber. He is the current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture.