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"Rolling Stone album review quote"

"She calls her music "Classical Punk", actually it's more piano-pop - with great emotion, some strings and a voice that could make cocktail glasses jump, if she wanted to."(translated from German)

(original)
“Die Polin nennt ihre Musik “classical punk”, tatsächlich ist es eher Piano-Pop - mit großen Gefühlen, einigen Streichern und einer Stimme, die Cocktailgläser springen lassen könnte, wenn sie wollte.” - Rolling Stone (Germany)


"Access! article excerpt"

"The common music journalist recognizes several levels of enthusiasm. If he is quite enthusiastic, but not euphoric, he likes to use the word "great": great album, great artist, great whatever. But it takes him to be literally over the moon with joy, to use the words such as such as "wonderful" or "fascinating". Julia Marcell for example, is fascinating. Wonderful too, but mostly fascinating." (translated from German)

(original)
"Der gemeine Musikjournalist kennt verschiedene Stufen der Begeisterung. Zeigt er sich recht enthusiastisch, aber noch nicht euphorisch, verwendet er gern das Wort „großartig“: großartige Platten, großartige Künstler, großartiges Irgendwas. Ist er aber regelrecht aus dem Häuschen vor Freude, greift er zu Prädikaten wie „wunderbar“ oder „hinreißend“. Julia Marcell zum Beispiel ist hinreißend. Auch wunderbar, aber vor allem hinreißend." - ACCESS! Music Magazine (Germany)


"KMAG article excerpt"

"Punk sensitivity and a classical piano? This girl opens heads. If Chopin ever played in Sex Pistols he would be called Julia Marcell"
(translated from Polish)

(original)
"Punkowa wrazliwosc i klasyczny fortepian? Ta dziewczyna otwiera glowy. Gdyby Chopin gral w Sex Pistols nazywalby sie Julia Marcell" - KMAG Culture Magazine (Poland)


"melodic.net "It Might Like You" album review quote"

"(...)the songs are mighty cool and well written. The arrangements with the stringsection and her piano, combined with her sweet and expressive voice is the perfect companion to these songs... And each songs need your attention a lot cause they challenge you as a listener. And the album grows for each listen.
This is an album you need to have if you like Tori Amos, Björk, Charlotte Martin and Kate Bush. This girl is playing in the same league." Par Winberg about "It Might Like You" - melodic.net


Discography

Album:
"It Might Like You"
stream: http://www.myspace.com/juliamarcell
http://www.last.fm/music/Julia+Marcell/It+Might+Like+You

funded by fans via Sellaband
2009 - Rough Trade in Germany
2009 - Galapagos Music in Poland

Radio Singles:
"Night Of The Living Dead"
(from the album "It Might Like You") in Germany and Poland

"Sixteen, Ten Years Later"
(from the album "It Might Like You") in Germany

EP:
"Storm"
2007 - self released
stream: http://www.last.fm/music/Julia+Marcell/Storm+ep

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Bio

My name is Julia and I write songs - that’s what I do most of the time when I don’t sing. So out of these made up little tunes sometimes something worthwhile is born and these are what I call classical punk songs. Classical because of my intentions, punk because of the execution. Mostly they are stories - I write them simple to make sure everyone gets them, but still not too simple to make sure everyone gets them in a different way. These songs-stories are very different from each other, so to balance things out, I like to have modest instrumentation - natural, organic sounds of wood, string, finger hitting a piano key and voice whispering, cracking, breathing - this is the world of sounds that excites me.

In October 2007 I raised 50.000$ on Sellaband.com – a website where people invest in future albums of independent artists. Thanks to the money of 657 people I traveled from Poland to Germany to record my debut album with producer Moses Schneider. We believe it came out fantastic - raw and full of energy, recorded live with all the room sounds, accidents and mistakes. Very human. In fact, if you close your eyes you might feel like the musicians are playing in your room.

In June 2009 the records has been released in Germany, where it's distributed by Rough Trade. In October it came to Poland, where Galapagos Music are taking care of it. And so me and my wonderful band are currently playing gigs mostly in Germany and Poland, but I also had a chance to perform in UK, Japan, Holland and Portugal.

website: www.juliamarcell.com
myspace: www.myspace.com/juliamarcell
youtube: www.youtube.com/juliamarcell