{"product_id":"emily-a-sprague-hill-flower-fog","title":"Emily A Sprague - Hill, Flower, Fog","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmily A. Sprague’s deeply rooted insight and clear-eyed foresight is harbored once again in the newly carved space of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf Water Memory \/ Mount Vision, Emily’s first forays into formless music, read as earth-bound passages, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHill, Flower, Fog,\u003c\/i\u003e Emily invites meditation on perception and sensation in a six part spectra. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoon View\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStar Gazing\u003c\/i\u003e are cosmic commitments to look up, while \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHorizon \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMirror \u003c\/i\u003edescribe abstract views relating to the position of self and its projection outwards. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWoven \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRain\u003c\/i\u003e represent more textural and tactile impressions, elemental immersions in our earth’s perfectly imperfect patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach piece varies subtly, yet remains soundly familial. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe sounds of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHill, Flower, Fog \u003c\/i\u003eshare a visual space with a series of carefully arranged pictures captured by Emily. Welcome to \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is a kinship between the poetry of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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":"South Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":64322648015225,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/1463\/6153\/files\/emily8328976d-370f-4ec5-b14d-523338e8e838_974a382a-a9eb-453d-a121-b7674c35c4b8.webp?v=1787902826","url":"https:\/\/vinyl-relic.com\/products\/emily-a-sprague-hill-flower-fog","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}