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a journey...


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2022, album, houndstooth records



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



credits

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


tracklist

01 spaceship lament
02 a journey
03 ocean
04 will you listen in
05 heartplant
06 levitation
07 (nature reset gap)
08 the richest garden in your memory
09 yearning
10 snow

“a journey” music video

directed by Emi Takahashi



reviews

“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

“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