Temporal is the elegantly restrained new album by Canadian cellist/composer Julia Kent. Following the dissonance and tension of her previous album for Leaf, 2015's Asperities, Temporal is a meditation on the transitory and fragile nature of existence. Much of the music that comprises Temporal was originally written to accompany theatre and dance productions. "The initial inspiration was more external than internal, in that many of these pieces began as a response to a text or a choreographic concept," Julia explains, "but they all seemed to be coming from the same emotional world and it made sense to weave them together into a record." After the threat of violent release on Asperities, Temporal's relationship to the physical world manifests itself in ... read more