In late September 2024, Emily A. Sprague opened her Japanese tour with a show in Hokkaido. Some vibrations from that evening are transmitted from there to here on "Hokkaido," the second pin to poke into the unfolded map of Cloud Time. Guided by kankyō ongaku, the environmental music philosophy, widely known in and outside of Japan, Sprague sketches an animated landscape grounded in the potency and potential of live improvisation. A terra of liquid synth lines is populated by sprightly sonic spirits, perhaps energized by the experience of having just set out. The sounds of “Hokkaido” linger like footprints tracked through tall grass, as lucid in their simple poetry.

Cloud Time traces an audio-spiritual journey through time and place, recorded across Sprague's 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.