a journey…

2022 // album // houndstooth records

✹ order [digital, cd, ltd edition white vinyl]

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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 whispered incantation that melds together undulating electronics with soothing vocals.” - 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