Memory Garden by Early Fern

"Memory Garden began during my final season as a farm worker, and because of this the songs are informed by the experience of doing repetitive tasks every day, spending lots of my time with plants and insects, watching and being in the weather, spending lots of my time with mechanical farm equipment (cultivating/planting), trying to spend some of my time observing the life around me. After five years and too many hard experiences, I made the difficult decision to leave farming. I continued to work on this music, and the songs transformed (as most of my creative work does) into a process of looking back into my memories and reflecting on my emotional states and making connections between the sounds and all these experiences. This music is about being a person surrounded by bugs and worms, light and air, soil and compost, snow, fog, and rain. It’s about giving in to nostalgia, cultivating reflection, and trying to create some kind of transcendent experience of human life while beset by mundane joys, sorrows, hardship, poverty, and rural isolation."

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