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Juliana Day
1+ albums
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Juliana is a recorder player, whistle player and vocalist based in Sheffield, UK. She has performed for TV, theatre, opera and radio including for the BBC, Disney+, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Collective and Northern Silents. She has also recieved composition/recording commisions from Making Tracks, the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, and the University of Sheffield. She co-directs Emergence Collective, an improvised minimalist ensemble, featuring a revolving line-up of around 30 musicians. They regularly perform and have sold out venues around the UK. They have just released their second album which was featured in Loud & Quiet magazine and Quietus' Music of the Month among other publications. She also performs improvised film scores around the North of England, and has provided instrumental and backing vocals for numerous session recordings. Her solo project uses a haunting combination of the lower family of recorders, whistles, vocalisations, found sounds and field recordings, building up looped layers and ambient, improvised textures. She was recently commisioned by the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music to write and record her debut solo album, which has been released on the Northern label New Jazz and Improvised Recordings. She was also commisioned by Making Tracks to write and record a piece transcribing humpback whale song, the recording of which was adapted and played on their UK tour. Juliana completed her undergra