Emil Ingmar - Pleiades (2023) [Hi-Res]

Hi,
I wanted to share with you the story of how this album that you
are holding in your hand began.
At a yard sale back home in Värmland, Sweden, I came across
this beautiful book from 1902 about stargazing: “Astronomy with
an Opera-Glass.”
The author, G.P. Serviss, had divided the book into the ’Stars of
Spring,’ ’Stars of Summer,’ ’Stars of Autumn,’ and ’Stars of Winter.’
I was captivated, not only by the hand-drawn maps of the constellations and the poetic language within its pages, but also by the
notion that not much has changed (except maybe the opera-glass)
when it comes to us looking up at the night sky.
The relationship between humans and space has always been
polar. Eternal and ever-changing, small and infinite, hope-filled and
sad. I suppose standing on a frosty hill, gazing up at the Pleiades
may have provided the same sense of awe, smallness, and wonder
in me as for everyone else in the history of time.
An overwhelming sensation that what is out there is beyond
comprehension.
And yet, at the same time, Orion and its company of brilliant winter constellations can still offer a soothing sense of homecoming
every time they rise in the east.