When she’s not making indie-folk with Florist, Emily A. Sprague records ambient albums, and she has a new one on the way. Cloud Time is out October 10 (via Rvng Intl.). Below, watch the video for the new album’s opening track, “Tokyo 1.”
Sprague recorded her new album while she was on tour in Japan last year. “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,” Sprague reflected. “Improvisation has always been such a pillar in my music practice, and I really wanted to meet the country, spaces, and people through that process.”
Cloud Time is a distillation of more than eight hours of material that Sprague recorded. For the album, Sprague was inspired 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 released the album Jellywish earlier this year.
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Cloud Time:
01 Tokyo 1
02 Osaka
03 Nagoya
04 Matsumoto
05 Hokkaido
06 Tokyo 2
07 Each Story