{"title":"Emily A Sprague","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hill-flower-fog","title":"Hill, Flower, Fog","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmily A. Sprague’s deeply rooted insight and clear-eyed foresight is harbored once again in the newly carved space of \u003ci\u003eHill, Flower, Fog.\u003c\/i\u003e “Hill, Flower, Fog is a place and a poem,” says Emily, “a personal letter and vision for myself, outlining priorities that I aspire to incorporate during my time on earth: family, sustainability, patience, and growth.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking language and dream between the stasis and shift of this year’s blur, Emily found nourishment in transformed daily practices, a process of retrieving the important things from the fog of past routines. Channeling deeply into the here and now fostered a far-reaching connectedness, a lifeline from the everyday to the cosmic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Water Memory \/ Mount Vision, Emily’s first forays into formless music, read as earth-bound passages, \u003ci\u003eHill, Flower, Fog\u003c\/i\u003e scatters more ineffable references across its pages. The maximal stretch of the universe, and germanely, its minimal density, are explored through compositions that search and embrace the infinitude and human condition mirrored, fragmented, and felt in both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eHill, Flower, Fog,\u003c\/i\u003e Emily invites meditation on perception and sensation in a six part spectra. \u003ci\u003eMoon View\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStar Gazing\u003c\/i\u003e are cosmic commitments to look up, while \u003ci\u003eHorizon \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMirror \u003c\/i\u003edescribe abstract views relating to the position of self and its projection outwards. \u003ci\u003eWoven \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRain\u003c\/i\u003e represent more textural and tactile impressions, elemental immersions in our earth’s perfectly imperfect patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach piece varies subtly, yet remains soundly familial. \u003ci\u003eHill, Flower, Fog\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the groove of a restrained, molluscan signal, our ears perceive signs of hope with twinkling momentum. Rippling out in florets of sound, we slide closer to the source as a deeper drone is braided through thrumming tones. A meticulous music box drops notes precisely on an ideal garden, until we reach the collection’s most fine-drawn and final entry, watching little comet tails lighting up a muted scape of the deepest indigo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sounds of \u003ci\u003eHill, Flower, Fog \u003c\/i\u003eshare a visual space with a series of carefully arranged pictures captured by Emily. Welcome to \u003ci\u003eHill, Flower, Fog\u003c\/i\u003e, an artist edition photography book offered with the album, usher the communal story from ether back to burrow, describing moments of pause, peace and communion experienced at home. Light falling across clouds, curtains, lawns and of course, hill, flower, fog. Illuminating Emily’s consciousness and appreciation of things, “simply being here in this cone of time in our universe.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a kinship between the poetry of \u003ci\u003eHill, Flower, Fog\u003c\/i\u003e and those revered lines of Blake: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand \/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower \/ Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand \/ And Eternity in an hour.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rvng","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50512837149003,"sku":"1103228","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8328976d-370f-4ec5-b14d-523338e8e838_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727908067"},{"product_id":"cloud-time","title":"Cloud Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmily A. Sprague’s \u003cem\u003eCloud Time\u003c\/em\u003e traces an audio-spiritual journey through time and place, recorded across a long-awaited debut tour of Japan in the fall of 2024. Compiled from environmental improvisations captured in and for the moment, material at once welcoming, responsive, and inimitable, the album distills a voyage guided by psychic wayfaring, unbound presence, and activating performance for a reciprocal exchange with space, listener, and each fully engaged instant. The Japanese tour documented on \u003cem\u003eCloud Time\u003c\/em\u003e held an almost mythic significance for Sprague, taking on properties of her own sonic white whale. After many near-departures and dropped plans to play in the country, “the empty spaces of cancelled trips and forgotten music turned into strange little misty spirits that I felt followed by,” she says. “When I began preparing for the tour, I couldn’t shake a sense that the invitation to Japan was more about opening myself up to this new place instead of bringing something into it tightly under my control. 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