{"product_id":"4582561405693","title":"Emily A. Sprague Cloud Time [ARTPL-244] Japan Music CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003cbr\u003e\nContents: A collaboration of environment and instinct. Ambient artist Emily A. Sprague, also known as the frontman of Florist, has selected over eight hours of recordings archived on the stage recorder of her first Japanese tour last year, and has generously included seven full-length tracks with only additional mixes and minimal editing. This album, \"Cloud Time,\" captures the performance from Emily A. Sprague's first Japanese tour, which finally took place in 2024 after two cancellations due to the pandemic. This recording holds mythical significance for Sprague, possessing a sonic, moba-like quality to her own work. \"The empty space left by canceled trips and forgotten music transformed into a strange, misty spirit that seemed to haunt me,\" she says. \"When I began preparing for the tour, I couldn't shake the feeling that the invitation to Japan was less about putting something under my control and bringing it there, and more about opening myself up to this new place. Improvisation has always been a major pillar of my musical work, and through that process, I strongly desired to encounter this country, this space, and these people.\" To amplify these intuitive whispers on stage, Sprague reconfigured her live equipment, which she had used for years with a design as error-free as possible, into a freer, more flexible setup. This allowed her to interact with a virtually blank canvas of sound each night. Each performance became a collaboration between the environment and instinct, and Sprague processed the events, energy, and emotions that shaped the night through a new sound ecosystem, projecting her unique, fully present self onto each audience member who opened their ears and hearts. \"For me, it was more than just a performance. It was an experience of feeling time and place.\" The seven lengthy tracks that flow through 'Cloud Time' are excerpts from over eight hours of recordings archived on the artist's stage recorder, and are generously included on the album with only additional mixes and minimal editing. As the album moves from city to city, from venue to venue, listeners are silenced by moments of deeply rooted presence. And this work is a chronicle of material recorded at each location, and Sprague has selected and structured the album based on mood-based storytelling rather than a linear timeline. \"I wanted the whole album to flow like each of my previous live performances,\" she explains. \"At the same time, I wanted to maintain the spirit of viewing the whole as a journey.\" The result is a work that is a powerful fermentation born from memory, now enclosed in the luminous amber of memory, a fusion of travelogue, love letter, and impressionistic collage. Deeply inspired by the widely recognized philosophy of ambient music, both domestically and internationally, \"Cloud Time\" resonates with a vast spirit, much like Pauline Oliveros's deep listening practice, and positions the listener as the composer. Rooted in heartfelt synthesizer frequencies, this richly enveloping and healing ambient music feels like music you're listening to again and again. Tracks like \"Nagoya,\" \"Tokyo 1,\" and the 10-minute \"Matsumoto\" evoke the atomic resonance of gently cared-for landscapes, drawing you deep into suffocating and restrictive perspectives, and then offering a space to move far away from them. \"Cloud Time\" is an invitation to embrace each moment as fleeting yet eternal, where there is nothing to grasp, only to flow, and only to gain. Sprague's practice of acceptance and letting go throughout the tour profoundly influenced her understanding of herself not just as a \"guest,\" but as a \"respected performer.\" \"The process of loving wherever I am, being present in the moment, and focusing on a clear channel of communication between my heart and emotions is rooted in deep respect for the space, the people there, and myself, and it has resulted in profound healing,\" she says. \"My vision and hope is that this album will be a gift to those who were there and those who weren't. A gift of the cloud time of life that is passing by.\" Media reviews and more Ambient artist Emily A. Sprague, also known as the frontman of Florist, has selected seven full-length tracks from over eight hours of recordings archived on the stage recorder of her first Japanese tour in 2024, with only additional mixes and minimal editing. (C)RS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TOKYO JAPAN CD SHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53226834821429,"sku":"4582561405693","price":3800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/5966\/5973\/files\/51blRSNtZEL._AC.jpg?v=1785371271","url":"https:\/\/tokyojapancdshop.com\/products\/4582561405693","provider":"TOKYO JAPAN CD SHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}