She had found out which hotel Bob Dylan would be staying in, back then in Bonn. And she not only had her demo CD and a guitar with her, but also outrageous luck. "Mr. Dylan, would you have a second?" Julia A. Noack boldly asked the god of all songwriters as he stepped out of the elevator – and unbelievably, but true: she was allowed to play him her songs. At one point even his own: they sang "Blind Willie McTell" together. He tuned her guitar, praised her songs, gave her tips – and Julia's voice reminded him of Emmylou Harris. "That was something special," she remembers of this unforgettable encounter in 2003. But it was much more: It was an accolade. After that, she recorded two studio albums – a girl from Berlin with a guitar; a folk lady who had already played with Dylan. To this day, she gets a backstage pass when he tours Germany. The folk lady made an impression on the king of folk.
Julia A. Noack has since progressed much further, and her album "The Feast" is the next step, a big one: With Viennese producer Alexander Nefzger, she's connecting with the international indie scene. Following Christiane Rösinger, Ja, Panik, and illute, she's now also taking advantage of the synergy effects of the Berlin-Vienna axis.
With Nefzger, who became known through unusual productions for Clara Luzia and other Austrian indie artists, Julia A. Noack developed experimental arrangements for her lyrical song-poems, for love songs without the word "love," and for nature-inspired metaphors like "silver whisper in the trees." It was the intensive collaboration of two creative powerhouses: "We were in a musical bubble." The result: trombones, electronic noisemakers, crackling percussion, acoustic and electric guitars, and at the center of the soundscape, Julia's voice, from which Nefzger squeezes everything she can – and which (sorry, Bob!) has nothing of Emmylou Harris. "The Feast" has become exactly what its title promises: an acoustic feast. A feast of sounds, loops, and timbres, of poetry, grand melodies, and choruses that become pop mantras. An album that shimmers and dazzles with ideas and inspiration.
01 Want / Be
02 Everything is sexuality
03 Name for this
04 What'd she say
05 Silver Whisper
06 Summer, something
07 We're crazy
08 Designer drug
09 The feast
10 Matter of me
11 The inconceivable
