a journey…

2022 // album // houndstooth records

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Pick a card
any card
Every card’s a
memory
Clear as a
picture
as postcards
flashing through
my memory

I don’t remember you yet -
but I feel like
we might have been

The mind works in
such peculiar ways

Pick a card
any card
Every card’s a memory
flashing through
my memory

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All songs written and performed by Hinako Omori, except the lyrics for "The Richest Garden in your Memory" written by Emily Grosholz, adapted by permission from Springer, Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry by Emily Grosholz © 2018.

Mixed by Hinako Omori, Oli Jacobs and Oli Middleton
Field recordings in Bath engineered by Katie May
Mastered by Matt Colton
artwork by emi takahashi
photography by katie may and hinako omori

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“Across 10 tracks that seamlessly flow into one another, Omori invites her listener on a participatory journey in which memory and consciousness are configured through forests, oceans, and gardens. In the process, she harmoniously reconciles the self and the natural world.” - pitchfork

“[a] carefully composed, atmospheric album... There is much thoughtfulness at work here.” - financial times

“Another brilliant example of how reflective and nurturing art can be” - loud & quiet

“a devastatingly beautiful debut” - clash magazine

“Silkworms up your spine, in a good way” - electronic sound magazine

“The composer fuses Wiltshire field recordings with astral punk, drawing on the therapeutic Japanese practice of ‘forest bathing’” - the guardian

“a true master of her craft; a singular vision brought beautifully to quiet, restrained life.” - gold flake paint