Emily A. Sprague’s »Cloud Time« traces an audio-spiritual journey through time and place, recorded across a long-awaited debut tour of Japan in the fall of 2024. Compiled from environmental improvisations captured in and for the moment, material at once welcoming, responsive, and inimitable, the album distills a voyage guided by psychic wayfaring, unbound presence, and activating performance for a reciprocal exchange with space, listener, and each fully engaged instant. »Cloud Time« is a series of postcards penned to the energetic possibilities of each lived moment, deeply felt and in dialogue with the eternal now.

The seven long-form pieces that plot the course of »Cloud Time« were excerpted from over eight hours of recordings archived on the artist’s on-stage recorder and generously shared on the album with no additional mixing and only minimal editing, invite listeners to become still in these deep-rooted moments of presence as the album moves from city to city, venue to venue. »Cloud Time« chronicles material recorded at each tour stop, Sprague selecting and sequencing the album around mood-based storytelling more so than linear chronology.