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Cole Pulice celebrates the release of Land’s End Eternal on Leaving Records with a trio performance of work from the album. Experimenting with guitar as a new compositional element and accompanyment to their celestial ambient jazz saxophone, Pulice’s latest record takes inspiration from the Bay Area’s long musical history and landscape.
Julius Smack is the musical alias of Peter Hernandez, a Los Angeles-based musician, performer, and director of Practical Records. His work explores intuitive and imaginative landscapes, envisioning new modes of perception and existence. Drawing inspiration from vogue, postmodern dance, Japanese environmental music, and contemporary dance music, he synthesizes these influences into a singular artistic vision rooted in queer and indigenous heritage. With releases on labels such as Leaving Records, Noumenal Loom, Practical Records, and Constellation Tatsu, Julius Smack’s music resonates across diverse audiences. He has performed at prestigious venues including MOCA Geffen and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Stavanger Kunsthall in Norway, and Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in San Francisco.
Julius Smack performs in US, Japan, and Europe celebrating his new album Starlight, released March 25, 2025 on American ambient music label Constellation Tatsu. His performance conjures fantasy, urgency, and the subconscious through ethereal electronic dance and ambient music. Incorporating dance, keyboard and voice, video of the mundane and catastrophic, and projected artwork by collaborator Danny Espinoza, Starlight delivers urgent storytelling about technology, queerness, and new ways of existing in an age of turbulent social and technological change. Starlight envisions a dark future where artists are among the last to survive civilizational collapse. In this world, Julius Smack asks a fictional AI assistant, “Make an album that tells the story about Julius Smack.” Starlight questions labor systems and the role of the artist in the age of generative AI through absurdist storytelling and fantastical performance.