When she’s not making indie-folk with Florist, Emily A. Sprague data ambient albums, and he or she has a brand new one on the way in which. Cloud Time is out October 10 (by way of Rvng Intl.). Beneath, watch the video for the brand new album’s opening observe, “Tokyo 1.”
Sprague recorded her new album whereas she was on tour in Japan final 12 months. “After I started getting ready for the tour, I couldn’t shake a way that the invitation to Japan was extra about opening myself as much as this new place as an alternative of bringing one thing into it tightly underneath my management,” Sprague mirrored. “Improvisation has at all times been such a pillar in my music observe, and I actually needed to satisfy the nation, areas, and other people by way of that course of.”
Cloud Time is a distillation of greater than eight hours of fabric that Sprague recorded. For the album, Sprague was impressed by the Japanese environmental music philosophy kankyō ongaku.
Cloud Time is Sprague’s first solo album since 2020’s Hill, Flower, Fog. She and her bandmates in Florist launched the album Jellywish earlier this 12 months.
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Cloud Time:
01 Tokyo 1
02 Osaka
03 Nagoya
04 Matsumoto
05 Hokkaido
06 Tokyo 2
07 Every Story
