![]() ![]() ![]() How would you describe yourself at that age? I think heard his music in a TV show recently and it just took me back to discovering him at an early age and having an emotional connection to it. It’s funny, I get that feeling a lot with Erik Satie too, actually. I just want to marry him when I get older.” And my mom was like, “That’s beautiful, darling, but he’s into men.” And he was there with like, fishnet stockings and high heels and I said to my mom, “I’m so in love with him. And my mom took me to see Rufus Wainwright when I was really young. I was talking about this actually yesterday with two of my friends, we were talking about some of the first concerts that our parents took us to. I can’t quite get a clear visual about when the first time that was played for me or what was going on, but there’s an emotional memory in my body, so I can still put that on and it still calms my nervous system in a way where it takes me back to like feeling like a five year old. I think some of the music that calmed me at the earliest stage was Erik Satie. Do you mind sharing some early memories of feeling connected to music? It’s actually related to something I wanted to touch on later on, but I was hoping we could go back in time a little bit first, because I know you grew up in a musical family. You know, like sometimes after it’s been raining a lot the sky gets so crystal clear. But then it had these washes of pink through it. Yeah, it was kind of very, very pale blue. I love that you said that, because I was just going to ask if you could describe the sky for me. We went to a pizza evening and we were sitting in the park, and the sky was like – it had been raining all morning, so it was very translucent and blue. I actually just went and had a farewell dinner with all my friends. Not right now, but I was just under the sky. This might be a bit of a weird question to start things off, but are you somewhere where you can see the sky? We caught up with Indigo Sparke for the latest edition of our Artist Spotlight interview series to talk about her earliest musical memories, working with Adrianne Lenker, and the restlessness to belong to something greater. “Everything is dying,” she tenderly intones against the ghostly echo of an instrumental, “Everything is simple.” These are the final words on the album, but while it’s easy to focus on the stripped-back nature of Sparke’s music, it’s the everything she seems perpetually more entranced by. Recorded between Los Angeles, Italy, and New York, the follow-up to 2016’s Nightbloom EP was co-produced by Adrianne Lenker, with whom she was briefly involved in 2019, and frequent Big Thief collaborator Andrew Sarlo the result is a mesmerizing record that’s charged with emotional intimacy without ever losing its poetic, intangible qualities. Amid the soft glow of finger-picked guitar and delicate touches of piano, the Sydney-based singer-songwriter often uses that kind of cosmic language to relate her own experience on her debut album, Echo: “I have pulled apart the cosmos/ Trying to find you inside,” she sings on ‘Carnival’ on ‘Wolf’, she implores, “Come upstairs, let me show you all the parts you haven’t seen/ There’s a hell, there’s a heaven, there’s a universe exploding,” before comparing her lover to the moon. Listening to Indigo Sparke’s music can feel like watching a star flicker in the dark country sky: from afar it can seem small and insubstantial, but once you consider the amount of energy that ripples through it, the moment can suddenly feel overwhelming in its intensity.
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