Julia Felix takes its name from the ancient House of Julia Felix on Pompeii’s Via dell’Abbondanza—a site once known for its gardens, baths, and quiet refuges from the noise of the surrounding city. In a similar spirit, the project creates spaces of calm within the wider Om Pharaoh Records universe, offering ambient works shaped by stillness, drift, and contemplative atmosphere.

Emerging from southern Ontario, Julia Felix began as a personal study in restraint and spaciousness, exploring how minimal elements can open into expansive emotional worlds. The project’s releases often feel like recovered fragments: meditations that hover between memory and ruin, presence and disappearance.

Within the broader OPR constellation, Julia Felix serves as a counterbalance to the label’s more exploratory extremes—a place where quiet becomes its own form of inquiry. Each release stands as a small archival chamber, echoing the project’s namesake: a private refuge preserved against time.

"When half way through the journey of our life I found that I was in a gloomy wood, because the path which led aright was lost. And ah, how hard it is to say just what this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was, the very thought of which renews my fear! So bitter't is, that death is little worse; but of the good to treat which there I found, I'll speak of what I else discovered there". from "The Wood and the Mountain" Inferno I, Dante Alighieri

"The idea of popular art, like that of patriotic art, if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous. If the intention was to make art accessible to the people by sacrificing refinements of form, on the ground that they are "all right for the idle rich" but not for anybody else, I had seen enough of fashionable society to know that it is there that one finds real illiteracy and not, let us say, among electricians." - Marcel Proust